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FlyBase Consortium
The FlyBase project is carried out by a consortium of Drosophila researchers and computer scientists at: Harvard University, University of Cambridge (UK), Indiana University and the University of New Mexico.
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- FlyBase-Harvard
- Biological Laboratories, Harvard University
- 16 Divinity Avenue
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
- USA
Norbert Perrimon (PI) Julie Agapite Kris Broll Lynn Crosby Gilberto dos Santos David Emmert Susan Russo Gelbart L. Sian Gramates Kathleen Falls Beverley Matthews Carol Sutherland Christopher Tabone Pinglei Zhou Mark Zytkovicz
- FlyBase-Cambridge
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
- Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY
- UK
Nick Brown (PI) Giulia Antonazzo Helen Attrill Silvie Fexova Phani Garapati Tamsin Jones Alex Holmes Aoife Larkin Steven Marygold Gillian Millburn Alix Rey Vitor Trovisco Pepe Urbano
- FlyBase-Indiana
- Department of Biology, Indiana University
- 1001 East 3rd Street
- Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7005
- USA
Thomas Kaufman (PI) Bryon Czoch Josh Goodman Victor Strelets Jim Thurmond
- FlyBase-NewMexico
- Department of Biology, Castetter Hall - Room 200
- University of New Mexico,
- Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
- USA
Maggie Werner-Washburne (PI) Richard Cripps (PI) Phillip Baker
FlyBase Publications
- 2017
- Hu Y, Comjean A, Mohr SE; FlyBase Consortium, Perrimon N. (2017)
- Gene2Function: An Integrated Online Resource for Gene Function Discovery.
- G3 (Bethesda) 7(8):2855-2858 (FBrf0236248)
- The Gene Ontology Consortium. (2017)
- Expansion of the Gene Ontology knowledgebase and resources
- Nucl Acids Res. 45(D1):D331-D338
- Gramates LS, Marygold SJ, dos Santos G, Urbano J-M, Antonazzo G, Matthews BB, Rey AJ, Tabone CJ, Crosby MA, Emmert DB, Falls K, Goodman JL, Hu Y, Ponting L, Schroeder AJ, Strelets VB, Thurmond J, Zhou P and the FlyBase Consortium. (2017)
- FlyBase at 25: looking to the future.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 45(D1):D663-D671 (FBrf0234415)
- Marygold SJ, Attrill H, Lasko P. (2017)
- The Translation Factors of Drosophila melanogaster.
- Fly 11(1):65-74 (FBrf0233552)
- 2016
- Marygold SJ, Antonazzo G, Attrill H, Costa M, Crosby MA, Dos Santos G, Goodman JL, Gramates LS, Matthews BB, Rey AJ, Thurmond J; FlyBase Consortium. (2016)
- Exploring FlyBase Data Using QuickSearch.
- Curr. Protoc. Bioinformatics 56:1.31.1-1.31.23 (FBrf0234167)
- Marygold SJ, Crosby MA, Goodman JL and The FlyBase Consortium. (2016)
- Using FlyBase, a Database of Drosophila Genes and Genomes.
- Drosophila: Methods and Protocols, Second edition, vol. 1478 (C. Dahmann, ed.) pp. 1-31. Springer, New York (FBrf0233766) (PMC5107610)
- Kahsai L, Millburn GH, Cook KR. (2016)
- Phenotypes Associated with Second Chromosome P Element Insertions in Drosophila melanogaster.
- G3 (Bethesda). 6(8):2665-2670 (FBrf0233125)
- Millburn GH, Crosby MA, Gramates LS, Tweedie S; FlyBase Consortium. (2016)
- FlyBase portals to human disease research using Drosophila models.
- Dis. Model Mech. 9(3):245-252 (FBrf0231138)
- Attrill H, Falls K, Goodman JL, Millburn GH, Antonazzo G, Rey AJ, Marygold SJ; the FlyBase Consortium. (2016)
- FlyBase: establishing a Gene Group resource for Drosophila melanogaster.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 44(D1):D786-D792 (FBrf0230602)
- 2015
- Lu J, Marygold SJ, Gharib WH and Suter B. (2015)
- The aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases of Drosophila melanogaster.
- Fly 9(2):53-61 (FBrf0230668)
- Matthews BB, dos Santos G, Crosby MA, Emmert DB, St Pierre SE, Gramates LS, Zhou P, Schroeder AJ, Falls K, Strelets V, Russo SM, Gelbart WM, and the FlyBase Consortium. (2015)
- Gene Model Annotations for Drosophila melanogaster: Impact of High-Throughput Data.
- G3 (Bethesda) 5:1721-1736 (FBrf0229216)
- Crosby MA, Gramates LS, dos Santos G, Matthews BB, St Pierre SE, Zhou P, Schroeder AJ, Falls K, Emmert DB, Russo SM, Gelbart WM., and the FlyBase Consortium. (2015)
- Gene Model Annotations for Drosophila melanogaster: The Rule-Benders.
- G3 (Bethesda) 5:1737-1749 (FBrf0229217)
- Gene Ontology Consortium. (2015)
- Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 43(Database issue):D1049-56
- Dos Santos G, Schroeder AJ, Goodman JL, Strelets VB, Crosby MA, Thurmond J, Emmert DB, Gelbart WM; the FlyBase Consortium. (2015)
- FlyBase: introduction of the Drosophila melanogaster Release 6 reference genome assembly and large-scale migration of genome annotations.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 43(Database issue): D690-D697 (FBrf0227324)
- 2014
- Alam-Faruque Y, Hill DP, Dimmer EC, Harris MA, Foulger RE, Tweedie S, Attrill H, Howe DG, Thomas SR, Davidson D, Woolf AS, Blake JA, Mungall CJ, O'Donovan C, Apweiler R, Huntley RP. (2014)
- Representing kidney development using the gene ontology.
- PLoS One. 9(6):e99864
- Mao Y, Van Auken K, Li D, Arighi CN, McQuilton P, Hayman GT, Tweedie S, Schaeffer ML, Laulederkind SJ, Wang SJ, Gobeill J, Ruch P, Luu AT, Kim JJ, Chiang JH, Chen YD, Yang CJ, Liu H, Zhu D, Li Y, Yu H, Emadzadeh E, Gonzalez G, Chen JM, Dai HJ, Lu Z. (2014)
- Overview of the gene ontology task at BioCreative IV.
- Database 2014. bau086
- Van Auken K, Schaeffer ML, McQuilton P, Laulederkind SJ, Li D, Wang SJ, Hayman GT, Tweedie S, Arighi CN, Done J, Müller HM, Sternberg PW, Mao Y, Wei CH, Lu Z (2014)
- BC4GO: a full-text corpus for the BioCreative IV GO Task.
- Database 2014. bau074
- Cejuela, JM, McQuilton P, Ponting L, Marygold, SJ, Stefancsik R, Millburn GH, Rost B, and the FlyBase Consortium (2014)
- tagtog: interactive and text-mining-assisted annotation of gene mentions in PLOS full-text articles.
- Database 2014. bau033
- St. Pierre SE, Ponting L, Stefancsik R, McQuilton P, and the FlyBase Consortium (2014)
- FlyBase 102 - advanced approaches to interrogating FlyBase.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 42(Database issue):D780-8 (FBrf0223749)
- 2013
- Costa M, Reeve S, Grumbling G, Osumi-Sutherland D. (2013)
- The Drosophila anatomy ontology.
- J. Biomed. Semantics 4(1):32 (FBrf0223849)
- Osumi-Sutherland D, Marygold SJ, Millburn GH, McQuilton PA, Ponting L, Stefancsik R, Falls K, Brown NH, Gkoutos GV. (2013)
- The Drosophila phenotype ontology.
- J. Biomed. Semantics 4(1):30 (FBrf0223876)
- Vasilevsky NA, Brush MH, Paddock H, Ponting L, Tripathy SJ, Larocca GM, Haendel MA (2013)
- On the reproducibility of science: unique identification of research resources in the biomedical literature.
- PeerJ. 1:e148 (FBrf0222712)
- Marygold SJ, Leyland PC, Seal RL, Goodman JL, Thurmond J, Strelets VB, Wilson RJ; FlyBase consortium (2013)
- FlyBase: improvements to the bibliography.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 41(Database issue):D751-D757 (FBrf0220350)
- Hoehndorf R, Hardy NW, Osumi-Sutherland D, Tweedie S, Schofield PN, Gkoutos GV. (2013)
- Systematic analysis of experimental phenotype data reveals gene functions.
- PLoS One. 8(4):e60847 (FBrf0221415)
- Gene Ontology Consortium (2013)
- Gene Ontology annotations and resources.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 41(Database issue):D530-5.
- 2012
- McQuilton P and the FlyBase Consortium (2012)
- Opportunities for text mining in the FlyBase genetic literature curation workflow.
- Database 2012:bas039 (FBrf0219955)
- Bunt SM, Grumbling GB, Field HI, Marygold SJ, Brown NH, Millburn GH and the FlyBase Consortium (2012)
- Directly e-mailing authors of newly published papers encourages community curation.
- Database 2012:bas024 (FBrf0218522)
- McQuilton P, St Pierre SE, Thurmond J; FlyBase Consortium (2012)
- FlyBase 101 – the basics of navigating FlyBase.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 40 (Database issue):D706-14 (FBrf0217108)
- Fang R, Schindelman G, Van Auken K, Fernandes J, Chen W, Wang X, Davis P, Tuli MA, Marygold S, Millburn G, Matthews B, Zhang H, Brown N, Gelbart WM, Sternberg PW (2012)
- Automatic categorization of diverse experimental information in the bioscience literature.
- BMC Bioinformatics. 13(1):16 (FBrf0218533)
- Gene Ontology Consortium (2012)
- The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 40(Database issue):D559-64
- 2011
- Rangarajan A, Schedl T, Yook K, Chan J, Haenel S, Otis L, Faelten S, DePellegrin‑Connelly T, Isaacson R, Skrzypek MS, Marygold SJ, Stefancsik R, Cherry JM, Sternberg PW and Müller H-M (2011)
- Toward an interactive article: integrating journals and biological databases.
- BMC Bioinformatics 12:175 (FBrf0214821)
- Daines, B., Wang, H., Wang, L., Li, Y., Han, Y., Emmert, D., Gelbart, W., Wang, X., Li, W., Gibbs, R., Chen, R. (2011).
- The Drosophila melanogaster transcriptome by paired-end RNA sequencing.
- Genome Res. 21(2): 315--324 (FBrf0213064)
- Khodiyar VK, Hill DP, Howe D, Berardini TZ, Tweedie S, Talmud PJ, Breckenridge R, Bhattarcharya S, Riley P, Scambler P, Lovering RC (2011)
- The representation of heart development in the gene ontology.
- Dev Biol. 354(1):9-17
- 2010
- Gene Ontology Consortium (2010)
- The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 38(Database issue):D331-5
- Pfreundt U, James DP, Tweedie S, Wilson D, Teichmann SA, Adryan B (2010)
- FlyTF: improved annotation and enhanced functionality of the Drosophila transcription factor database.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 38(Database issue):D443-7 (FBrf0209611)
- 2009
- St. Pierre S and McQuilton P (2009)
- Inside FlyBase (Biocuration as a career).
- Fly 3(1):112-114 (FBrf0213427)
- Reference Genome Group of the Gene Ontology Consortium (2009)
- The Gene Ontology's Reference Genome Project: a unified framework for functional annotation across species.
- PLoS Comput Biol. 5(7):e1000431
- Tweedie S, Ashburner M, Falls K, Leyland P, McQuilton P, Marygold S, Millburn G, Osumi‑Sutherland D, Schroeder A, Seal R, Zhang H; FlyBase Consortium (2009)
- FlyBase: enhancing Drosophila Gene Ontology annotations.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 37(Database issue):D555-D559 (FBrf0206621)
- Loevenich SN, Brunner E, King NL, Deutsch EW, Stein SE; FlyBase Consortium, Aebersold R, Hafen E (2009)
- The Drosophila melanogaster PeptideAtlas facilitates the use of peptide data for improved fly proteomics and genome annotation.
- BMC Bioinformatics. 10:59 (FBrf0207486)
- 2008
- Drysdale R, and The FlyBase Consortium, (2008)
- FlyBase : a database for the Drosophila research community.
- Methods Mol. Biol. 420: 45-59 (FBrf0205804)
- Howe D, Costanzo M, Fey P, Gojobori T, Hannick L, Hide W, Hill DP, Kania R, Schaeffer M, St Pierre S, Twigger S, White O, Rhee SY (2008)
- Big data: The future of biocuration.
- Nature 455(7209):47-50
- Karamanis N, Seal R, Lewin I, McQuilton P, Vlachos A, Gasperin C, Drysdale R, Briscoe T, (2008)
- Natural language processing in aid of FlyBase curators.
- BMC Bioinformatics 9:193 (FBrf0206381)
- Wilson RJ, Goodman JL, Strelets VB and the FlyBase Consortium (2008)
- FlyBase: integration and improvements to query tools.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 36:D588-D593 (FBrf0203012)
- 2007
- Crosby MA, Goodman JL, Strelets VB, Zhang P, Gelbart WM and the FlyBase Consortium (2007)
- FlyBase: genomes by the dozen.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 35:D486-D491 (FBrf0194786)
- Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium. (2007)
- Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.
- Nature 450(7167):203-218 (FBrf0200326)
- Karamanis N, Lewin L, Seal R, Drysdale R, Briscoe E (2007)
- Integrating natural language processing with FlyBase curation.
- Pac Symp Biocomput. 2007:245-56 (FBrf0206379)
- Lin MF, Carlson JW, Crosby MA, Matthews BB, Yu C, Park S, Wan KH, Schroeder AJ, Gramates LS, St Pierre SE, Roark M, Wiley KL Jr, Kulathinal RJ, Zhang P, Myrick KV, Antone JV, Celniker SE, Gelbart WM, Kellis M.. (2007)
- Revisiting the protein-coding gene catalog of Drosophila melanogaster using 12 fly genomes.
- Genome Res. 17(12):1823-1836 (FBrf0202906)
- Mungall CJ, Emmert DB and the FlyBase Consortium (2007)
- A Chado case study: an ontology-based modular schema for representing genome-associated biological information.
- Bioinformatics 23(13):i337-346 (FBrf0201050)
- Stark A, Lin MF, Kheradpour P, Pedersen JS, Parts L, Carlson JW, Crosby MA, Rasmussen MD, Roy S, Deoras AN, Ruby JG, Brennecke J; Harvard FlyBase curators; Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, Hodges E, Hinrichs AS, Caspi A, Paten B, Park SW, Han MV, Maeder ML, Polansky BJ, Robson BE, Aerts S, van Helden J, Hassan B, Gilbert DG, Eastman DA, Rice M, Weir M, Hahn MW, Park Y, Dewey CN, Pachter L, Kent WJ, Haussler D, Lai EC, Bartel DP, Hannon GJ, Kaufman TC, Eisen MB, Clark AG, Smith D, Celniker SE, Gelbart WM, Kellis M (2007)
- Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures.
- Nature 450(7167):219-232 (FBrf0200674)
- 2006
- Grumbling G, Strelets V and The FlyBase Consortium (2006)
- FlyBase: anatomical data, images and queries.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 34:D484-D488 (FBrf0191339)
- 2005
- Drysdale RA, Crosby MA and the FlyBase Consortium (2005)
- FlyBase : Genes and gene models.
- Nucleic Acids Res., 33: D390-D395 (FBrf0184221)
- Richards S, Liu Y, Bettencourt BR, Hradecky P, Letovsky S, Nielsen R, Thornton K, Hubisz MJ, Chen R, Meisel RP, Couronne O, Hua S, Smith MA, Zhang P, Liu J, Bussemaker HJ, van Batenburg MF, Howells SL, Scherer SE, Sodergren E, Matthews BB, Crosby MA, Schroeder AJ, Ortiz-Barrientos D, Rives CM, Metzker ML, Muzny DM, Scott G, Steffen D, Wheeler DA, Worley KC, Havlak P, Durbin KJ, Egan A, Gill R, Hume J, Morgan MB, Miner G, Hamilton C, Huang Y, Waldron L, Verduzco D, Clerc-Blankenburg KP, Dubchak I, Noor MA, Anderson W, White KP, Clark AG, Schaeffer SW, Gelbart W, Weinstock GM, Gibbs RA. (2005)
- Comparative genome sequencing of Drosophila pseudoobscura: chromosomal, gene, and cis-element evolution.
- Genome Res. 15(1):1-18 (FBrf0184012)
- Zhou P, Emmert D, Zhang P (2005)
- Using chado to store genome annotation data.
- Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, Vol. 2, pp. 9.6.1-9.6.28. (FBrf0206380)
- 2003
- The FlyBase Consortium, (2003)
- The FlyBase Database of the Drosophila Genome Projects and community literature.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 31:172-175 (FBrf0159266)
- Drysdale R (2003)
- The Drosophila melanogaster genome sequencing and annotation projects: A status report.
- Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics 2(2):128--134 (FBrf0167361)
- 2002
- Mungall CJ, Misra S, Berman BP, Carlson J, Frise E, Harris N, Marshall B, Shu S, Kaminker JS, Prochnik SE, Smith CD, Smith E, Tupy JL, Wiel C, Rubin GM and Lewis SE. (2002)
- An integrated computational pipeline and database to support whole-genome sequence annotation.
- Genome Biol. 3:research0081 (FBrf0155825)
- Lewis SE, Searle SMJ, Harris N, Gibson M, Iyer V, Richter J, Wiel C, Bayraktaroglu L, Birney E, Crosby MA, Kaminker JS, Matthews BB, Prochnik SE, Smith CD, Tupy JL, Rubin GM, Misra S, Mungall CJ and Clamp ME. (2002)
- Apollo: a sequence annotation editor.
- Genome Biol. 3(12):research0082 (FBrf0155826)
- Misra S, Crosby MA, Mungall CJ, Matthews BB, Campbell KS, Hradecky P, Huang Y, Kaminker JS, Millburn GH, Prochnik SE, Smith CD, Tupy JL, Whitfield EJ, Bayraktaroglu L, Berman BP, Bettencourt BR, Celniker SE, de Grey ADNJ, Drysdale RA, Harris NL, Richter J, Russo S, Schroeder AJ, Shu SQ, Stapleton M, Yamada C, Ashburner M, Gelbart WM, Rubin GM and Lewis SE. (2002)
- Annotation of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatic genome: a systematic review.
- Genome Biol. 3:research0083 (FBrf0155827)
- The FlyBase Consortium (2002)
- The FlyBase Database of the Drosophila Genome Projects and community literature.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 30:106-108 (FBrf0141697)
- 2001
- Matthews K and Cook K (2001)
- Genetic Information Online: A Brief Introduction to FlyBase and Other Organismal Databases.
- In Encyclopedia of Genetics, E.C.R. Reeve, ed. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago. (FBrf0185967)
- Drysdale R (2001)
- Phenotypic data in FlyBase.
- Brief. Bioinform. 2(1):68-80 (FBrf0137187)
- 1999
- FlyBase (1999)
- FlyBase: Genomic and post-genomic viewpoints.
- In S. Letovsky (Ed.)
- Bioinformatics: Databases and Systems 141-150 (FBrf0111589)
- The FlyBase Consortium, (1999)
- The FlyBase Database of the Drosophila Genome Projects and community literature.
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- 1998
- The FlyBase Consortium (1998)
- FlyBase - A Drosophila database.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 26:85-88 (FBrf0100346)
- 1997
- The FlyBase Consortium (1997)
- FlyBase - A Drosophila database.
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- The FlyBase Consortium (1996)
- FlyBase - The Drosophila database.
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- The FlyBase Consortium (1995)
- Proposed genetic nomenclature for Drosophila melanogaster.
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- The FlyBase Consortium (1994)
- FlyBase - The Drosophila database.
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- FlyBase - The Drosophila genetic database.
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Bibliographies
The major sources that have been incorporated into the FlyBase Bibliography:
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- Bibliography of the biochemical genetics of Drosophila. Morton S. Fuchs, 1965.
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- References from Drosophila ananassae. Genetical and biological aspects. Y.N. Tobari (Editor). 1993.
- Japan Scientific Societies Press and Karger, Tokyo and Basel.
- References from the Environmental Mutagen Information Center (EMIC) database.
- MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine, Washington).
- Searched on the Text Word DROSOPHIL. Searched from 1966 to date.
- BIOSIS records searched on the keyword DROSOPHIL from 1982 to 2008.
- References from all Drosophila entries in the GenBank, NCBI, EMBL and DDBJ nucleic acid sequence databases and SWISS-PROT and PIR protein sequence databases.
- References from John Merriam's Genevent database of molecular data.
- Drosophila records from the Zoological Record, volume 115 (1978) to 2008.
- Jeff Hall's bibliography on neurogenetics of Drosophila.
External Databases
Nucleic Acid Sequence Databases (GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ) UniProtKB InterPro
Journal Articles and Books
Publications relevant to Drosophila from various journals and books.
Drosophila Conference Abstracts
The following abstracts were curated until 2008.
GSA Annual Drosophila Research Conference Abstracts
European Drosophila Research Conference Abstracts
Personal Communications to FlyBase
Information and observations provided by the Fly Community
Direct Submission of High-Throughput Data
- Proteomics data
- Center for Model Organism Proteomes --
- (SystemsX and Research Priority Project of the University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Microarrays (Oligos, cDNAs)
- Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA (Affy v1, Affy v2)
- Drosophila Genomics Resource Center, Bloomington, IN (DGRC-1, DGRC-2)
- Tiling BACs
- Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
Insertion Collection Data
- Transgene insertion data
- Gene Disruption Project (2005 - present)(Bellen et. al., 2004)
- Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (1998 - 2004)(Spradling et. al., 1999)
- DrosDel Project, Cambridge, UK (2003 - 2004)(Ryder et. al., 2004)
- P{wHy} Project, Gelbart laboratory, Harvard (2002 - present)(Huet et. al., 2002)
- P{GawB} Project, GETDB, Japan (2002 - 2004)
- NCI lethals (2002 - 2004)(Oh et. al., 2003)
- P{GT1} Project, Ed Ryder, Cambridge, UK (2004)
- Schaefer lines, Goettingen, Germany (2004)(Beinert et. al., 2004)
- Natural transposon insertion data
- Kaminker J. et al. 2002
- Quesneville H. et al. 2005
Stock Lists Submitted to FlyBase
Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center
Drosophila Genetic Resource Center
UC San Diego Drosophila Species Stock Center
Exelixis Drosophila Stock Collection at Harvard Medical School
Nusslein-Volhard laboratory
Garcia-Bellido laboratory
Carpenter laboratory
People
The original 1992 data set was compiled from the five sources listed. The data set is now user maintained via addition and correction forms.
An e-mail address list compiled and maintained by Dr. John Haynie (1992)
Records of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center (1992)
The distribution list of Drosophila Information Newsletter (1992)
A subset of the Genetics Society of America's mailing and membership list (1992)
The mailing list for the European Drosophila Research Conference (1992)
FlyBase Alumni
FlyBase thanks these former members of the FlyBase consortium for their contribution:
Boris Adryan Manish Anand Michael Ashburner Leyla Bayraktaroglu Ben Berman Brian Bettencourt Lee Bitsoi Pete Brokstein Stephanie Bunt Heather Butler Kathy Campbell Russell Collins Kim Cook Marta Costa Anthony DeAngelo Aubrey de Grey Rachel Drysdale Helen Field Rebecca Foulger Erwin Frise William Gelbart Mark Gibson Don Gilbert Gary Grumbling Janet Gulotta Cyrus Harmon Nomi Harris Gregg Helt Pavel Hradecky Yanmei Huang Josh Kaminker Kerry Knight Sophia Kossida Rob Kulathinal Julia Lamenza Joe Lemaire Stan Letovsky Suzanna Lewis Paul Leyland Guo-chun Liao Anne Loraine Kathy Matthews Glenn McAlpine Peter McQuilton John Merriam Sima Misra Emanuel Mongin Chris Mungall Tatiana Murnikova Catherine Nelson David Osumi-Sutherland Dawn Palmer Harriet Platero Laura Ponting Simon Prochnik Simon Reeve John Richter Wayne Rindone Margo Roark Gerry Rubin Susan St. Pierre Andrew Schroeder Ruth Seal Carolyn Shemen Hardik Sheth Nihar Sheth Shengqiang Shu David Simas Chris Smith Frank Smutniak Nicole Staudt Ray Stefancsik Jon Tupy Susan Tweedie Edwin Wang Eddy Wellbourne Eleanor Whitfield Colin Wiel Mark Williams Robert Wilson J.D. Wong Chihiro Yamada Mark Yandell Haiyan Zhang Peili Zhang
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