Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-512A Dear David, We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 41st (Pittsburgh) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am writing in connection with your abstract: 'Developmental roles of the mediator complex.' You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, Trap80. Do you have a map location for Trap80? This is a data class we like to track. You say 'Via the Genome Project we identified a second Drosophila TRAP subunit homologue, dTRAP80, and examined P insertion-derived mutations of this gene' which suggests to us that a genome project insertion mutant falls in Trap80. Could you tell us the insertion identifier for the line(s) in question? Also if Trap80 corresponds to any ESTs that is also very useful information for us to have. These correspondences are all important for bringing together the various data-bits about a gene into one gene record. Thank you for your help, with best wishes, Rachel. Subject: TRAP80 Dear Rachel, I am writing to you on behalf of David Cribbs about the abstract (#512A) we submitted to the 41th ADRC. TRAP80 is located at 90F1-2. The insertion identifier for this gene is l(3)s2956. The identifiers for two available ests are CK00124 and SD10038. I hope these informations will be sufficient to anotate TRAP80 on FlyBase. Best regards Henri-Marc Bourbon, phD Dr. Henri-Marc Bourbon, phD Centre de Biologie du Développement UMR5547 du C.N.R.S. Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III 118 Route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse France