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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 15^th November 2021 the FlyBase Community Advisory Group comprised 890 fly researchers from 46 different countries.

Country	Number of members	Country	Number of members
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
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

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+FlyBase Gene Ontology (GO) Survey
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-*FlyBase OrthoDB
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-*FlyBase gene summaries
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-*FlyBase bulk data files
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-*FlyBase 2.0
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 [[File: FlyBase_2.0.pdf]]
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-*FlyBase Author Reagent Form
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 [[File: ART_survey.pdf]]
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-*Drosophila template for NCBI dataset submissions
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 [[File: FCAG BioSample template.pdf]]
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-|style="text-align:center;" |September 2017
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-*Curation of phenotypes induced or modified by chemical treatments or nutritional challenges
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 [[File: Chemical_and_nutritional_phenotype_curation.pdf]]
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-*GAL4 Search Improvements
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 [[File: GAL4 _Search_Improvements_Survey.pdf]]
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-|style="text-align:center;" |November 2016
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-*Display of Gene Ontology Annotations
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 [[File: Display of Gene Ontology Annotations survey.pdf]]
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-*2016 General FlyBase survey
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-*Protein domain graphics/info
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 [[File: FCAGwikiProteinDomainSurvey.pdf]]
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-*Video tutorials
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 [[File: FCAGwikiVideoTutorialSurvey.pdf]]
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-* Predicting the future of fly research
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-* Default tracks on GBrowse
+Default tracks on GBrowse
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 |style="text-align:center;" | May 2015
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-* Complex mutants and transgenic constructs
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 [[File: FCAG_construct_survey_full_results.pdf]]
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-* New 'Gene Group' resource
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 [[File: FCAG_GeneGroup_survey_results.pdf]]
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 * How you use FlyBase and how it could be improved