Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-747B
Dear Dr. Chase,
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:
'The Drosophila Gene Mind-Meld Encodes A Novel ADAM
Protein Highly Expressed During CNS Development.'
You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, mind-meld.
Do you have a map location for your gene? This is a data class we like
to track, if possible. Also, do you have a short symbol in mind for
this gene?
We wonder whether your mind-meld is the same as the 'mm: mindmelt' gene
(FBgn0015514) which is already in FlyBase, since there are similarities
in the biology as well as in the name.
Thank you very much for your help,
with best wishes,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-747B
Hi Rachel,
The mind-meld gene is newly described in the abstract, and is yet not published.
hasn't been taken) would be just fine as a symbol. We will be submitting the
nearly full-length cDNA sequence we have to GENBANK very soon .... Bruce