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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.

Please use the contact FlyBase form to write to us.

FlyBase-Harvard

Biological Laboratories, Harvard University

16 Divinity Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

USA

   William Gelbart (PI)
   Kris Broll
   Lynn Crosby
   Gil dos Santos
   David Emmert
   L. Sian Gramates
   Kathleen Falls
   Beverley Matthews
   Susan Russo
   Andy Schroeder
   Christopher Tabone
   Pinglei Zhou
   Mark Zytkovicz

FlyBase-Cambridge

Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH

UK

   Nick Brown (PI)
   Giulia Antonazzo
   Helen Attrill
   Marta Costa
   Steven Marygold
   Gillian Millburn
   Laura Ponting
   Alix Rey
   Nicole Staudt
   Ray Stefancsik
   Pepe Urbano

FlyBase-Indiana

Department of Biology, Indiana University

1001 East 3rd Street

Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7005

USA

   Thomas Kaufman (PI)
   Josh Goodman
   Gary Grumbling
   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

2016

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. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1046

2015

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. doi: 10.1534/g3.115.018929

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. doi: 10.1534/g3.115.018937

Gene Ontology Consortium. (2015)

Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward.

Nucleic Acids Res. 43(Database issue):D1049-56. doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1179

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. doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1099

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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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099864

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 doi: 10.1093/database/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 doi: 10.1093/database/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 doi: 10.1093/database/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. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt1092

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2013

Costa M, Reeve S, Grumbling G, Osumi-Sutherland D. (2013)

The Drosophila anatomy ontology.

J. Biomed. Semantics 4(1):32 doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-32

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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. doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-30

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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. doi: 10.7717/peerj.148

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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. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1024

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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060847

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Gene Ontology Consortium (2013)

Gene Ontology annotations and resources.

Nucleic Acids Res. 41(Database issue):D530-5. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1050

2012

McQuilton P and the FlyBase Consortium (2012)

Opportunities for text mining in the FlyBase genetic literature curation workflow.

Database 2012:bas039 doi: 10.1093/database/bas039

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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 doi: 10.1093/database/bas024

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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. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr1030

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. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-16

FBrf0218533

Gene Ontology Consortium (2012)

The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011.

Nucleic Acids Res. 40(Database issue):D559-64. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr1028. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr1028

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. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-175

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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. doi:10.1101/gr.107854.110

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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. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.03.011

2010

Gene Ontology Consortium (2010)

The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements.

Nucleic Acids Res. 38(Database issue):D331-5. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp1018

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. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp910

FBrf0209611

2009

St. Pierre S and McQuilton P (2009)

Inside FlyBase (Biocuration as a career).

Fly (Austin). 2009 Jan-Mar; 3(1): 112-114. doi: 10.4161/fly.3.1.7769

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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. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000431

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. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn788

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. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-59

FBrf0207486

2008

Drysdale R, and The FlyBase Consortium, (2008)

FlyBase : a database for the Drosophila research community.

Methods Molec. Biol. 420: 45-59. Book Chapter.

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. doi: 10.1038/455047a.

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 Apr 14; 9:193. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-193

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. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm930

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. doi:10.1093/nar/gkl827

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Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium. (2007)

Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

Nature 450(7167): 203-218. doi:10.1038/nature06341

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. doi:10.1101/gr.6679507

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: 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. doi:10.1038/nature06340

FBrf0200674

2006

Grumbling G, Strelets V and The FlyBase Consortium (2006)

FlyBase: anatomical data, images and queries.

Nucleic Acids Res., 34: D484-D488; doi:10.1093/nar/gkj068.

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. doi:10.1101/gr.3059305

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 Biology, 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 doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-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 Biology, 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.

Briefings in Bioinformatics, 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.

Nucleic Acids Res., 27:85-88

FBrf0107356

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.

Nucleic Acids Res., 25:63-66

FBrf0093096

1996

The FlyBase Consortium (1996)

FlyBase - The Drosophila database.

Nucleic Acids Res., 24:53-56

FBrf0085043

1995

The FlyBase Consortium (1995)

Proposed genetic nomenclature for Drosophila melanogaster.

Trends in Genetics: Genetic Nomenclature Guide, pp.26--29.

FBrf0078422

1994

The FlyBase Consortium (1994)

FlyBase - The Drosophila database.

Nucleic Acids Res., 22:3456-3458

FBrf0077015

Ashburner M and Drysdale R (1994)

FlyBase - The Drosophila genetic database.

Development 120:2077-2079

FBrf0072526

1993

Ashburner M (1993)

FlyBase.

GNome News 13:19-20.

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Citing FlyBase

We suggest FlyBase be referenced in publications in the following manner:

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. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1046

Information on citing genes or fly lines (alleles, deficiencies, transgenes, insertions) can be found in our Author Guidelines article.

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Lindsley and Zimm (1992)

Lindsley and Zimm (1992) - The New Redbook The Genome of Drosophila melanogaster Dan L. Lindsley & Georgianna G. Zimm Copyright 1992 By Academic Press, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Bibliographies

The major sources that have been incorporated into the FlyBase Bibliography:

Bibliography from The Genetics of Drosophila. T. H. Morgan, C. B. Bridges and A. H. Sturtevant, 1925. Bibliographica Genetica II: 1-262. 'S-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. [Part One.] H. J. Muller, 1939.

Imperial Bureau of Animal Breeding and Genetics. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Two. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1952.

Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. Slough: Farnham Royal.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Three. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1958.

Indiana University Publications.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Four. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1963.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Five. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1969.

Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Six. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1974.

Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Seven A. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1976.

Drosophila Information Service 51: 159-193.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Seven B. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1977.

Drosophila Information Service 52:186-226.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Seven C. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1978.

Drosophila Information Service 53: 219-244.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Parts Seven D(I) and D(II). Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1980.

Drosophila Information Service 55: 218-262.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Seven E. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1981.

Drosophila Information Service 56: 199-210.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Eight A. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1982.

Drosophila Information Service 58: 227-270.

Bibliography on the Genetics of Drosophila. Part Eight B. Irwin H. Herskowitz, 1983.

Drosophila Information Service 59: 163-207.

Contents pages of Drosophila Information Service: volume 50 (1975) to volume 75 (1994).

Bibliography of the biochemical genetics of Drosophila. Morton S. Fuchs, 1965.

Drosophila Information Service 40: 105-126.

Bibliography of Hawaiian Drosophilidae. Hampton L. Carson and Linden T. Teramoto, 1982.

Drosophila Information Service: 58: 215-226.

Bibliography on Drosophila hydei. F. M. A. van Breugel, 1987.

Drosophila Information Service 66: 198-208.

Bibliography on the Drosophila nasuta subgroup. W.-E. Kalisch, 1991.

Drosophila Information Service 70: 110-117.

Bibliography on Drosophila ananassae. B. N. Singh, 1991.

Drosophila Information Service 70: 205-211.

The Bibliography of Theoretical Population Genetics. J. Felsenstein, 1988.

Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross Publications, Inc.

Bibliography: longevity, ageing and parental age effects in Drosophila (1907-86).

M. Hani Soliman, Frédéric A. Lints, Cécile V. Lints and Pol Bullens. Pages 241-293.

In: Drosophila as a Model System for Ageing Studies. F.A. Lints and M.H. Soliman (Eds.), 1988.

Blackie Publications. Glasgow, Scotland.

End of Chapter references from Drosophila: A laboratory handbook and Drosophila: A laboratory manual. Michael Ashburner, 1989. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

A bibliography on Drosophila compiled and provided by Dr. G. Baechli (University of Zurich).

January 1993 with regular subsequent updates.

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)

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