FlyBase:FlyBase Help Index
New to Flies
Useful Guides for Drosophila Research
Tweetorials
Topic-specific FlyBase Tweetorials
Video Tutorials
- FlyBase Video Tutorials on YouTube organized into four playlists.
Basic navigation series
- How to find all data related to a gene
- How to generate an excel file of all alleles of a gene
- Finding related genes in FlyBase: Gene Groups
- Finding related genes/alleles in FlyBase: Vocabularies
- Finding related genes in FlyBase: The Gene Ontology
- Gene Snapshots in FlyBase
- Finding genes with similar phenotypes
Tools series
- RNA-Seq Part I: Using GBrowse -- Warning: The GBrowse genome viewer has been updated to JBrowse, but techniques shown here are still useful in JBrowse.
- RNA-Seq Part II: Using RNA-Seq Profile Search
- RNA Seq Part III: Searching for Similarly Expressed Genes
- Finding related genes/alleles in FlyBase: Vocabularies
- Using the Orthology search tool
- Finding related genes in FlyBase: The Gene Ontology
- Finding genes with similar phenotypes
RNA-Seq series
- RNA-Seq Part I: Using GBrowse -- Warning: The GBrowse genome viewer has been updated to JBrowse, but techniques shown here are still useful in JBrowse.
- RNA-Seq Part II: Using RNA-Seq Profile Search
- RNA Seq Part III: Searching for Similarly Expressed Genes
FlyBase Guidelines
Report Help
Field by Field guides to FlyBase Reports
- All Reports
- Aberration Report
- Allele Report
- Balancer/Genotype variant Report
- Cell Line Report
- Chemical Report
- Clone Report
- CV (Controlled Vocabulary) Term Report
- Dataset/Collection Report
- Experimental Tool Report
- Gene Report
- Gene Group Report
- Human Disease Model Report
- Image Report
- Insertion Report
- Interaction Report
- Macromolecular Complex Report
- Metabolic Pathway Report
- Natural Transposon Report
- Signaling Pathway Report
- Polypeptide Report
- Recombinant Construct Report
- Reference Report
- Sequence Feature Report
- Strain Report
- Stock Report
- Transcript Report
Curation Documentation
- Controlled Vocabularies used by FlyBase
- Gene Model Annotation Guidelines
- Gene Ontology (GO) Annotation
- Nontraditional alleles
- Comonly used Vectors and Constructs
Tools and Downloads Documentation
Tools Overview
Query Tools Help
Genomic/Map Tools Help
Tools for Archived Instances of FlyBase earlier than FB2022_05
- FlyBase GBrowse Help
- GBrowse Tracks
- Feature differences between JBrowse and GBrowse on FlyBase
- Complete list of GBrowse/JBrowse Data Track Differences
- Using FTP Archives
Retrieve/Convert Tools Help
RNA-Seq Tools Help
Downloads
Information for Authors
- Author Guidelines
- Citing FlyBase
- Fast Track Your Paper
- FlyBase Community
- Gene Snapshots
- Nomenclature
- Personal Communications to FlyBase