FlyBase part of GO Consortium project

FlyBase is currently participating in the Gene Ontology Consortium's Reference Genome Project, a collaborative project to comprehensively annotate gene function for twelve 'Reference Genomes': D. melanogaster, H. sapiens, M. musculus, R. norvegicus, G. gallus, D. rerio, D. discoideum, A. thaliana, C. elegans, S. cerevisiae, S. pombe and E. coli. The Reference Genome project aims to improve the breadth and depth of GO annotation for participating genomes as well as provide reference annotations for newly sequenced or previously unannotated genomes.

For more information, please see the GO Reference Genome Annotation Project and this paper: PLoS Comput Biol 2009 5(7):e1000431.