Goat / Capra hircus

Cultivated goat (chevon) is an early-stage cell-ag target with little dedicated computational data so far. This page collects what exists and will grow as the field’s data accumulates.

Complete data inventory

A curated snapshot. NCBI / NGDC accessions are the canonical living source — fetch the linked accession for current sample counts, file sizes, and availability.

Study	Paper	Data	Type	Tissue	Description	Size	Area of research
Single-cell atlas of goat longissimus dorsi across muscle development (MuSCs & FAPs)	DOI	PRJCA049754	scRNA-seq	Longissimus dorsi	First scRNA-seq atlas of the goat longissimus dorsi across 14 developmental stages (E30 to Y11), 120,944 cells; resolves muscle satellite-cell (MuSC) and fibro-adipogenic progenitor (FAP) subpopulations and DLK1-NOTCH3 FAP-to-MuSC crosstalk that maintains MuSC quiescence (Chen et al. 2026, Cells; Chengdu gray goat)	120,944 cells; 14 stages	Goat muscle development / seed-cell biology
Full-length (Oxford Nanopore) transcriptome of goat muscle development	DOI	SRP531789	Long-read RNA-seq (ONT, full-length)	Longissimus dorsi & biceps femoris	ONT full-length transcriptome from late-gestation dams and fetuses; 169.8M valid reads, 58,092 full-length transcripts, 89,468 alternative-splicing events, 5,538 predicted lncRNAs; data descriptor enriching the goat transcriptome annotation (Pei et al. 2025, Scientific Data)	169.8M reads; 24 SRA runs	Goat transcriptome annotation

Further reading

• Atlases & functional genomics: FarmGTEx and FAANG in Databases.md.
• Sequence & expression repositories: GEO, SRA, Ensembl (Capra hircus genome assembly).
• Cross-species modeling tooling: TranscriptFormer and UCE in Software.md — especially useful where labelled species data is sparse.
• Adjacent research areas: Cellular Engineering, Media Optimization, Bioprocess Control.
• Reference substrates: HumanReference, CHOReference, CrossSpecies. AI/ML benchmarks: Benchmarks.