Symposium: experimental design for poultry production and genomics research.

This symposium dealt with the theoretical and practical aspects of choosing and evaluating experimental designs, and how experimental results may be related to poultry production through modeling. Additionally, recent advances in techniques for generating high-throughput genomic sequencing data, genomic breeding values, genomics selection, and genome-wide association studies have provided unique computational challenges to the poultry industry. Such challenges were presented and discussed.