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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)
   Susan Russo Gelbart (PD)
   Kris Broll
   Lynn Crosby
   Gil dos Santos
   Kathleen Falls
   L. Sian Gramates
   Victoria Jenkins
   Ian Longden
   Beverley Matthews
   Jolene Seme
   Christopher J. Tabone
   Pinglei Zhou
   Mark Zytkovicz

FlyBase-Cambridge

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY

UK

   Nick Brown (Co-PI)
   Giulia Antonazzo
   Helen Attrill
   Phani Garapati
   Damien Goutte-Gattat
   Aoife Larkin
   Steven Marygold
   Alex McLachlan
   Gillian Millburn
   Arzu Ozturk-Colak
   Clare Pilgrim
   Vitor Trovisco

FlyBase-Indiana

Department of Biology, Indiana University

1001 East 3rd Street

Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7005

USA

   Thomas Kaufman (Co-PI)
   Brian Calvi (Co-PI)
   Josh Goodman
   Victor Strelets
   Jim Thurmond
   Pravija Krishna

FlyBase-NewMexico

Department of Biology, Castetter Hall - Room 200

University of New Mexico,

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

USA

   Richard Cripps (Co-PI)
   TyAnna Lovato

FlyBase Publications

2021

Meyer H, Buhr A, Callaerts P, Schiemann R, Wolfner MF, Marygold SJ (2021)

Identification and bioinformatic analysis of neprilysin and neprilysin-like metalloendopeptidases in Drosophila melanogaster.

MicroPubl Biol. 000410 DOI:10.17912/micropub.biology.000410 FBrf0249415

Hu Y, Tattikota SG, Liu Y, Comjean A, Gao Y, Forman C, Kim G, Rodiger J, Papatheodorou I, Dos Santos G, Mohr SE, Perrimon N (2021)

DRscDB: A single-cell RNA-seq resource for data mining and data comparison across species.

Comput Struct Biotechnol J 19:2018-2026. DOI:10.1016/j.csbj.2021.04.021 FBrf0249044

Ahn SJ and Marygold SJ (2021)

The UDP-Glycosyltransferase Family in Drosophila melanogaster: Nomenclature Update, Gene Expression and Phylogenetic Analysis.

Front Physiol 12 648481 DOI:10.3389/fphys.2021.648481 FBrf0248570

The Gene Ontology Consortium (2021)

The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine.

Nucleic Acids Res. 49(D1) D325–D334 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkaa1113 FBrf0247877

Larkin A, Marygold SJ, Antonazzo G, Attrill H, dos Santos G, Garapati PV, Goodman JL, Gramates LS, Millburn G, Strelets VB, Tabone CJ, Thurmond J and the FlyBase Consortium (2021)

FlyBase: updates to the Drosophila melanogaster knowledge base.

Nucleic Acids Res. 49(D1) D899–D907 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkaa1026 FBrf0247700

RNAcentral Consortium (2021)

RNAcentral 2021: secondary structure integration, improved sequence search and new member databases.

Nucleic Acids Res. 49(D1) D212–D220 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkaa921

2020

Marygold SJ, Alic N, Gilmour DS, Grewal SS (2020)

In silico identification of Drosophila melanogaster genes encoding RNA polymerase subunits.

MicroPubl Biol. 000320 DOI:10.17912/micropub.biology.000320 FBrf0247389

Wood V, Carbon S, Harris MA, Lock A, Engel SR, Hill DP, Van Auken K, Attrill H, Feuermann M, Gaudet P, Lovering RC, Poux S, Rutherford KM and Mungall CJ (2020)

Term Matrix: A novel Gene Ontology annotation quality control system based on ontology term co-annotation patterns.

Open Biol 10(9) 200149 DOI:10.1098/rsob.200149

Kishore R, Arnaboldi V, Van Slyke CE, Chan J, Nash RS, Urbano JM, Dolan ME, Engel SR, Shimoyama M, Sternberg PW, the Alliance of Genome Resources (2020)

Automated generation of gene summaries at the Alliance of Genome Resources.

Database 2020 baaa037 DOI:10.1093/database/baaa037

Antonazzo G, Urbano JM, Marygold SJ, Millburn GH and Brown NH (2020)

Building a pipeline to solicit expert knowledge from the community to aid gene summary curation.

Database 2020 baz152 DOI:10.1093/database/baz152 FBrf0244633

Marygold SJ, Attrill H, Speretta E, Warner K, Magrane M, Berloco M, Cotterill S, McVey M, Rong Y and Yamaguchi M (2020)

The DNA polymerases of Drosophila melanogaster.

Fly 14(1-4) 49-61 DOI:10.1080/19336934.2019.1710076 FBrf0245686

The Alliance of Genome Resources Consortium (2020)

Alliance of Genome Resources Portal: unified model organism research platform.

Nucleic Acids Res 48(D1) D650–D658 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkz813 FBrf0245774

2019

The Alliance of Genome Resources (2019)

Building a Modern Data Ecosystem for Model Organism Databases.

Genetics 213(4):1189-1196 DOI:10.1534/genetics.119.302523 FBrf0244239

Attrill H, Gaudet P, Huntley RP, Lovering RC, Engel SR, Poux S, Van Auken KM, Georghiou G, Chibucos MC, Berardini TZ, Wood V, Drabkin H, Fey P, Garmiri P, Harris MA, Sawford T, Reiser L, Tauber R, Toro S; Gene Ontology Consortium. (2019)

Annotation of gene product function from high-throughput studies using the Gene Ontology.

Database 2019 baz007 DOI:10.1093/database/baz007

Garapati PV, Zhang J, Rey AJ and Marygold SJ (2019)

Towards comprehensive annotation of Drosophila melanogaster enzymes in FlyBase

Database 2019 bay144 DOI:10.1093/database/bay144 FBrf0241253

Thurmond J, Goodman JL, Strelets VB, Attrill H, Gramates LS, Marygold SJ, Matthews BB, Millburn G, Antonazzo G, Trovisco V, Kaufman TC, Calvi BR and the FlyBase Consortium. (2019)

FlyBase 2.0: the next generation.

Nucleic Acids Res. 47(D1) D759–D765 DOI:10.1093/nar/gky1003 FBrf0241170

The RNAcentral Consortium (2019)

RNAcentral: a hub of information for non-coding RNA sequences.

Nucleic Acids Res. 47(D1) D221–D229 DOI:10.1093/nar/gky1034

The Gene Ontology Consortium (2019)

The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong.

Nucleic Acids Res. 47(D1) D330–D338 DOI:10.1093/nar/gky1055

2018

Howe DG, Blake JA, Bradford YM, Bult CJ, Calvi BR, Engel SR, Kadin JA, Kaufman TC, Kishore R, Laulederkind SJF, Lewis SE, Moxon SAT, Richardson JE and Smith C. (2018)

Model organism data evolving in support of translational medicine.

Lab Anim (NY) 47:277-289 DOI:10.1038/s41684-018-0150-4 FBrf0241113

Rey AJ, Attrill H, Marygold SJ and The FlyBase Consortium. (2018)

Using FlyBase to Find Functionally Related Drosophila Genes.

Eukaryotic Genomic Databases: Methods and Protocols (M. Kollmar, ed.) pp. 493-512. Springer, New York DOI:10.1007%2F978-1-4939-7737-6_16 FBrf0238904

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 DOI:10.1534/g3.117.043885 FBrf0236248

The Gene Ontology Consortium. (2017)

Expansion of the Gene Ontology knowledgebase and resources

Nucleic Acids Res. 45(D1):D331-D338 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkw1108

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 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkw1016 FBrf0234415

Marygold SJ, Attrill H, Lasko P. (2017)

The Translation Factors of Drosophila melanogaster.

Fly 11(1):65-74 DOI:10.1080/19336934.2016.1220464 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 DOI:10.1002/cpbi.19 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 DOI:10.1007/978-1-4939-6371-3_1 FBrf0233766)

Kahsai L, Millburn GH, Cook KR. (2016)

Phenotypes Associated with Second Chromosome P Element Insertions in Drosophila melanogaster.

G3 (Bethesda). 6(8):2665-2670 DOI:10.1534/g3.116.030940 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 DOI:10.1242/dmm.023317 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 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkv1046 FBrf0230602

2015

Lu J, Marygold SJ, Gharib WH and Suter B. (2015)

The aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases of Drosophila melanogaster.

Fly 9(2):53-61 DOI:10.1080/19336934.2015.1101196 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 DOI:10.1534/g3.115.018929 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 DOI:10.1534/g3.115.018937 FBrf0229217

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 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 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 FBrf0223749

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 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 DOI:10.1186/2041-1480-4-30 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 DOI:10.7717/peerj.148 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 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 FBrf0221415

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 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 DOI:10.1093/database/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 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:10.1186/1471-2105-13-1 FBrf0218533

Gene Ontology Consortium (2012)

The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011.

Nucleic Acids Res. 40(Database issue):D559-64 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 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 DOI:10.1101/gr.107854.110 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 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 3(1):112-114 DOI:10.4161/fly.3.1.7769 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 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 Mol. Biol. 420: 45-59 DOI:10.1007/978-1-59745-583-1_3 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 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

Marygold SJ, Roote J, Reuter G, Lambertsson A, Ashburner M, Millburn GH, Harrison PM, Yu Z, Kenmochi N, Kaufman TC, Leevers SJ, Cook KR (2017)

The ribosomal protein genes and Minute loci of Drosophila melanogaster.

Genome Biol. 2007;8(10):R216. DOI:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r216 FBrf0205398

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 FBrf0194786

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(13):i337-346 DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm189 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 DOI:10.1093/nar/gki046 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 DOI:10.1093/nar/gkg094 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 DOI:10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-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 Biol. 3:research0083 DOI:10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-research0083 FBrf0155827

The FlyBase Consortium (2002)

The FlyBase Database of the Drosophila Genome Projects and community literature.

Nucleic Acids Res. 30:106-108 DOI:10.1093/nar/30.1.106 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.

Nucleic Acids Res. 27:85-88 DOI:10.1093/nar/27.1.85 FBrf0107356

1998

The FlyBase Consortium (1998)

FlyBase - A Drosophila database.

Nucleic Acids Res. 26:85-88 DOI:10.1093/nar/26.1.85 FBrf0100346

1997

The FlyBase Consortium (1997)

FlyBase - A Drosophila database.

Nucleic Acids Res. 25:63-66 DOI:10.1093/nar/25.1.63 FBrf0093096

1996

The FlyBase Consortium (1996)

FlyBase - The Drosophila database.

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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.

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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)

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Kaminker J. et al. 2002

Quesneville H. et al. 2005

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