FlyBase:Community Advisory Group
What is the FlyBase Community Advisory Group?
The FlyBase Community Advisory Group (FCAG) was launched in September 2014 with the aim of gaining greater feedback from the community about changes in FlyBase.
You may not know that FlyBase is generated by a team of 32 people, working at Harvard, Indiana, New Mexico and Cambridge Universities. As the members of the FlyBase team work to improve the amount and usefulness of data in FlyBase, numerous questions arise regarding which data are the most important for Drosophila researchers and how we can most usefully present these data on the website. While we do our best to make changes that will be optimal for all Drosophila researchers, we wanted to be able to consult more widely so that we could be sure that our decisions would be helpful for the greatest number of people.
The group consists of members from any lab worldwide that uses FlyBase as part of its research. The FCAG member can be the lab head, a postdoc, student, technician or anyone else who uses FlyBase and feels that they could contribute. FlyBase attracts users from a variety of different backgrounds and our members range from frequent FlyBase users to those who use FlyBase only occasionally or who work primarily with another organism.
Members of the group are sent up to 6 surveys a year on a variety of different subjects (see the Surveys section below for details of subjects that have been covered so far).
Current membership
As of 15th November 2021 the FlyBase Community Advisory Group comprised 890 fly researchers from 46 different countries.
Country | Number of members | Country | Number of members |
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United States | 344 | Nigeria | 6 |
United Kingdom | 101 | Austria | 5 |
Germany | 66 | Chile | 5 |
China | 41 | Taiwan | 5 |
India | 39 | Netherlands | 4 |
France | 35 | Singapore | 4 |
Spain | 31 | Argentina | 3 |
Canada | 25 | New Zealland | 3 |
Japan | 20 | Norway | 3 |
Italy | 17 | Belgium | 2 |
Brazil | 13 | Malta | 2 |
Sweden | 11 | Pakistan | 2 |
Israel | 10 | Thailand | 2 |
Korea South | 10 | Ukraine | 2 |
Switzerland | 10 | Cyprus | 1 |
Australia | 9 | Czech Republic | 1 |
Portugal | 9 | Estonia | 1 |
Russian Federation | 9 | Lebanon | 2 |
Greece | 7 | Panama | 1 |
Hungary | 7 | Poland | 1 |
Denmark | 6 | South Africa | 1 |
Finland | 6 | Uganda | 1 |
Mexico | 6 | Turkey | 1 |
Joining the group
Every person who uses FlyBase in their research is welcome into our group. Our aim is to have at least a representative from every lab. If you are interested in joining FCAG please go to the registration form
Updating your details (current members)
If you are an existing member of the group and you would like to update your details click here to go to our contact FlyBase form and choose the subject ‘FlyBase Community Advisory Group’, detailing the changes you would like to make.
Surveys
Date | Subject | Responses | Results |
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Nov 2022 |
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111 |
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Sep 2022 |
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199 |
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Aug 2021 |
|
272 |
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Sep 2019 |
|
81 |
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Feb 2019 |
|
70 |
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May 2018 |
|
175 |
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February 2018 |
|
22 |
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December 2017 |
|
97 |
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September 2017 |
|
118 |
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January 2017 |
|
157 |
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November 2016 |
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172 |
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September 2016 |
|
235 |
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July 2016 |
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208 |
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January 2016 |
|
149 |
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October 2015 |
|
135 |
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July 2015 |
|
198 |
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May 2015 |
|
274 |
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January 2015 |
|
383 |
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October 2014 |
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454 |