Commentary

Feb 8, 2013. FlyBase and the Kaufman lab have performed an imaging project in order to provide images of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster.

In most cases, animals were imaged that contained single mutations, or were the only mutation visible in the body part imaged. In some cases, double mutants were imaged when it was easy to determine; for example, some eye shape mutations were imaged that also contained eye color mutations.... (More)

Mar 6, 2013. The Drosophila pseudoobscura genome sequence has been updated to the release 3 assembly produced by the HGSC group at Baylor School of Medicine. New methods were employed as described in FBrf0219967 that combined PacBio sequencing information with the release 2 genome assembly to resolve and improve gaps in the assembly. The annotations from FlyBase release 2.30 have been migrated to the new assembly as annotation release 3.1.... (More)

Mar 8, 2013. FlyBase GBrowse is now complemented with GBrowse 2. Highlights include better scrolling, customizable track order and appearance, and settings that persist across sessions.... (More)

May 6, 2013. FlyBase is extending its initial gene-level analyses of RNA-seq throughput data from modENCODE and others. The algorithm for RPKM (reads per kilobase per million mapped reads) has been refined, additional datasets have been analyzed, and these data are now available for bulk download... (More)