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==What is the 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.  
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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 30 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.
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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 representatives from any lab worldwide that uses FlyBase as part of its research. The representative 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.
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'''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 [[FlyBase:Community Advisory Group#Surveys|Surveys]] section below for details of subjects that have been covered so far).
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Members of the group are sent '''up to 6 surveys a year''' on a variety of different subjects (see the [[FlyBase:Community Advisory Group#Surveys|Surveys]] section below for details of subjects that have been covered so far).
  
 
==Current membership==
 
==Current membership==
  
As of 1st April 2015 the FlyBase Community Advisory Group comprised 559 fly researchers from 42 different countries.  
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As of 27<sup>th</sup> August 2024 the FlyBase Community Advisory Group comprised '''807 fly researchers''' from '''47 different countries'''.  
  
{| class="wikitable"
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[[File:FCAG_members_oct_2024.png|700px|thumb|left]]
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
 
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! Country !! Number of members !! Country !! Number of members
 
! Country !! Number of members !! Country !! Number of members
 
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| United States || 212 || Chile || 3
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| United States || 316 || Greece || 5
 
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|-
| United Kingdom || 70 || Finland || 3
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| United Kingdom || 83 || Singapore || 5
 
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|-
| Germany || 43 || Mexico || 3
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| Germany || 47 || Taiwan || 5
 
|-
 
|-
| France || 28 || Netherlands || 3
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| China || 42 || Austria || 4
 
|-
 
|-
| Canada || 20 || Portugal || 3
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| India || 40 || Argentina || 3
 
|-
 
|-
| China || 19 || Argentina || 2
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| Spain || 28 || Netherlands || 3
 
|-
 
|-
| India || 18 || Belgium || 2
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| France || 27 || New Zealand || 3
 
|-
 
|-
| Spain || 16 || New Zealand || 2
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| Canada || 24 || Norway || 3
 
|-
 
|-
| Japan || 13 || Poland || 2
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| Italy || 18 || Belgium || 2
 
|-
 
|-
| Italy || 12 || Singapore || 2
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| Japan || 18 || Lebanon || 2
 
|-
 
|-
| Brazil || 11 || Taiwan || 2
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| Brazil || 14 || Malta || 2
 
|-
 
|-
| Sweden || 10 || Thailand || 2
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| Portugal || 12 || Pakistan || 2
 
|-
 
|-
| Australia || 7 || Colombia || 1
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| South Korea || 9 || Thailand || 2
 
|-
 
|-
| Hungary || 6 || Cyprus || 1
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| Russia || 9 || Cyprus || 1
 
|-
 
|-
| Israel || 6 || Czech Republic || 1
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| Sweden || 9 || Czechia || 1
 
|-
 
|-
| South Korea || 6 || Estonia || 1
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| Australia || 8 || Estonia || 1
 
|-
 
|-
| Denmark || 5 || Ireland || 1
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| Denmark || 7 || Panama || 1
 
|-
 
|-
| Greece || 5 || Malta || 1
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| Finland  || 7 || Poland || 1
 
|-
 
|-
| Russia || 5 || Norway || 1
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| Hungary || 7 || Romania || 1
 
|-
 
|-
| Switzerland || 5 || Ukraine || 1
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| Israel || 7 || South Africa || 1
 
|-
 
|-
| Austria || 4 ||  Uruguay || 1  
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| Nigeria || 7|| Turkiye || 1
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|-
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| Mexico  || 6  || Uganda || 1
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|-
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| Switzerland || 6 || Ukraine || 1
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| Chile || 5  ||  ||
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|}
 
|}
  
 
==Joining the group==
 
==Joining the group==
  
Our aim is to have a representative from every lab that uses FlyBase in their research. If your lab has not yet signed up and you are interested in representing your group click on the link below to fill in the registration form.
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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 [http://{{flybaseorg}}/static/fcag registration form]
 
 
http://flybase.org/static_pages/feedback/community_advisory_group_form.html
 
  
 
==Updating your details (current members)==
 
==Updating your details (current members)==
  
If you are an existing member of the group and you would like to update your details click [http://flybase.org/cgi-bin/mailto-fbhelp.html here] to go to our contact FlyBase form and choose the subject ‘FlyBase Community Advisory Group’, detailing the changes you would like to make.
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If you are an existing member of the group and you would like to update your details click [http://{{flybaseorg}}/contact/email 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==
 
==Surveys==
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! Date
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!width="80"|Date
! Subject
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!width="350"|Subject
! Number of responses
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!width="10"|Responses
 
! Results
 
! Results
 
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|-
| October 2014
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|style="text-align:center;" |Nov 2023
|  
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|
* How you use FlyBase and how it could be improved
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FlyBase Survey: Fly Lab List
* The automatically generated gene summaries on the gene report
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|style="text-align:center;" |
* Receiving updates from FlyBase
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274
 +
|
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[[File:FlyBase_Survey_-_Fly_Lab_List_.pdf ]]
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|-
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |July 2023
 +
|
 +
FlyBase Gene Ontology (GO) Survey
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
142
 +
|
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[[File: FlyBase Gene Ontology (GO) Survey.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Feb 2023
 +
|
 +
FlyBase Survey: 'Have you seen this?'
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
110
 +
|
 +
[[File: FlyBase Survey - Have you seen this.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Nov 2022
 +
|
 +
FlyBase Features for scRNAseq Data
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
111
 +
|
 +
[[File: FlyBase_Features_for_scRNAseq_Data.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Sep 2022
 +
|
 +
FlyBase ''Drosophila'' Metabolic Pathways
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
199
 +
|
 +
[[File: FB_Metabolic_Pathways.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Aug 2021
 +
|
 +
FlyBase OrthoDB
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
272
 +
|
 +
[[File: FB_OrthoDB.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Sep 2019
 +
|
 +
FlyBase gene summaries
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
81
 +
|
 +
[[File: FB_Gene_Summaries.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Feb 2019
 +
|
 +
FlyBase bulk data files
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
70
 +
|
 +
[[File: FB_bulk_data_files.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |May 2018
 +
|
 +
FlyBase 2.0
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
175
 +
|
 +
[[File: FlyBase_2.0.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Feb 2018
 +
|
 +
FlyBase Author Reagent Form
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
22
 +
|
 +
[[File: ART_survey.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Dec 2017
 +
|
 +
Drosophila template for NCBI dataset submissions
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
97
 +
|
 +
[[File: FCAG BioSample template.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Sept 2017
 +
|
 +
Curation of phenotypes induced or modified by chemical treatments or nutritional challenges
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
118
 +
|
 +
[[File: Chemical_and_nutritional_phenotype_curation.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Jan 2017
 +
|
 +
GAL4 Search Improvements
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
157
 +
|
 +
[[File: GAL4 _Search_Improvements_Survey.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Nov 2016
 +
|
 +
Display of Gene Ontology Annotations
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
172
 +
|
 +
[[File: Display of Gene Ontology Annotations survey.pdf]]
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|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |Sept 2016
 +
|
 +
2016 General FlyBase survey
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|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
235
 +
|
 +
[[File: 2016 General FlyBase survey.pdf]]
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |July 2016
 +
|
 +
Protein domain graphics/info
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
208
 +
|
 +
[[File: FCAGwikiProteinDomainSurvey.pdf]]
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" | Jan 2016
 
|
 
|
457
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Video tutorials
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
149
 
|
 
|
[[File:FCAG_introductory_survey_results.pdf]]
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[[File: FCAGwikiVideoTutorialSurvey.pdf]]
 
|-
 
|-
| January 2015  
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|style="text-align:center;" | Oct 2015
|
 
* New 'Gene Group' resource
 
 
|
 
|
382
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Predicting the future of fly research
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
135
 
|
 
|
[[File:FCAG_GeneGroup_survey_results.pdf]]
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[[File: FCAG_predicting_the_future.pdf]]
 
|-
 
|-
| May 2015
+
|style="text-align:center;" | July 2015
 
|
 
|
* Complex mutants and transgenic constructs
+
Default tracks on GBrowse
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
198
 
|
 
|
 +
[[File: GBrowse_default tracks survey results.pdf]]
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" | May 2015
 +
|
 +
Complex mutants and transgenic constructs
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 
274
 
274
 
|
 
|
[[File:FCAG_construct_survey_results.pdf]]
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[[File: FCAG_construct_survey_full_results.pdf]]
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" | Jan 2015
 +
|
 +
New 'Gene Group' resource
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
383
 +
|
 +
[[File: FCAG_GeneGroup_survey_results.pdf]]
 +
|-
 +
|style="text-align:center;" | Oct 2014
 +
|
 +
* How you use FlyBase and how it could be improved
 +
* The automatically generated gene summaries on the gene report
 +
* Receiving updates from FlyBase
 +
|style="text-align:center;" |
 +
454
 +
|
 +
[[File: FCAG_introductory_survey_results.pdf]]
 
|}
 
|}

Latest revision as of 11:19, 30 October 2024

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 27th August 2024 the FlyBase Community Advisory Group comprised 807 fly researchers from 47 different countries.

FCAG members oct 2024.png
Country Number of members Country Number of members
United States 316 Greece 5
United Kingdom 83 Singapore 5
Germany 47 Taiwan 5
China 42 Austria 4
India 40 Argentina 3
Spain 28 Netherlands 3
France 27 New Zealand 3
Canada 24 Norway 3
Italy 18 Belgium 2
Japan 18 Lebanon 2
Brazil 14 Malta 2
Portugal 12 Pakistan 2
South Korea 9 Thailand 2
Russia 9 Cyprus 1
Sweden 9 Czechia 1
Australia 8 Estonia 1
Denmark 7 Panama 1
Finland 7 Poland 1
Hungary 7 Romania 1
Israel 7 South Africa 1
Nigeria 7 Turkiye 1
Mexico 6 Uganda 1
Switzerland 6 Ukraine 1
Chile 5

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
Nov 2023

FlyBase Survey: Fly Lab List

274

File:FlyBase Survey - Fly Lab List .pdf

July 2023

FlyBase Gene Ontology (GO) Survey

142

File:FlyBase Gene Ontology (GO) Survey.pdf

Feb 2023

FlyBase Survey: 'Have you seen this?'

110

File:FlyBase Survey - Have you seen this.pdf

Nov 2022

FlyBase Features for scRNAseq Data

111

File:FlyBase Features for scRNAseq Data.pdf

Sep 2022

FlyBase Drosophila Metabolic Pathways

199

File:FB Metabolic Pathways.pdf

Aug 2021

FlyBase OrthoDB

272

File:FB OrthoDB.pdf

Sep 2019

FlyBase gene summaries

81

File:FB Gene Summaries.pdf

Feb 2019

FlyBase bulk data files

70

File:FB bulk data files.pdf

May 2018

FlyBase 2.0

175

File:FlyBase 2.0.pdf

Feb 2018

FlyBase Author Reagent Form

22

File:ART survey.pdf

Dec 2017

Drosophila template for NCBI dataset submissions

97

File:FCAG BioSample template.pdf

Sept 2017

Curation of phenotypes induced or modified by chemical treatments or nutritional challenges

118

File:Chemical and nutritional phenotype curation.pdf

Jan 2017

GAL4 Search Improvements

157

File:GAL4 Search Improvements Survey.pdf

Nov 2016

Display of Gene Ontology Annotations

172

File:Display of Gene Ontology Annotations survey.pdf

Sept 2016

2016 General FlyBase survey

235

File:2016 General FlyBase survey.pdf

July 2016

Protein domain graphics/info

208

File:FCAGwikiProteinDomainSurvey.pdf

Jan 2016

Video tutorials

149

File:FCAGwikiVideoTutorialSurvey.pdf

Oct 2015

Predicting the future of fly research

135

File:FCAG predicting the future.pdf

July 2015

Default tracks on GBrowse

198

File:GBrowse default tracks survey results.pdf

May 2015

Complex mutants and transgenic constructs

274

File:FCAG construct survey full results.pdf

Jan 2015

New 'Gene Group' resource

383

File:FCAG GeneGroup survey results.pdf

Oct 2014
  • How you use FlyBase and how it could be improved
  • The automatically generated gene summaries on the gene report
  • Receiving updates from FlyBase

454

File:FCAG introductory survey results.pdf