Error reports from Eleanor Whitfield 1) Gene or accession: CG18740 Gene annotation error Genes CG18740 and mor should be merged. Comments: In the new release the updated translation in protein_ID AE003711; AAF55259 is wrongly assigned a new CG symbol, CG18740. In release 1 the gene was stated to be mor (moira). It still is moira with a better (correct!) translation. thanks 2) Gene or accession: CG18572 Gene annotation error Genes CG18572 and r should be merged. Comments: In the new release the updated translation in protein_ID AE003503; AAF48639 is wrongly assigned a new CG symbol, CG18572. In release 1 the gene was stated to be r (rudimentary). It still is rudimentary with a better, but still incorrect, translation. thanks 3) Gene or accession: CG1706 Gene annotation error Genes CG1706 and CG11166 should be merged. . Comments: CG1706 no longer exists in Celera release 2. Translation for AE003841; AAF59266 was updated now is known to be a splice variant of CG11166. Will CG11166 be the valid symbol as CG1706 has been dropped in release 2 (ie the numerically first CG will not be the valid symbol)? thanks 4) Gene or accession: CG14767 Gene annotation error Genes CG8575 and CG14767 should be merged. . Comments: CG8575 no longer exists in Celera release 2. Translation for AE003836; AAF59050 was updated now is known to be a splice variant of CG14767. Will CG14767 be the valid symbol as CG8575 has been dropped in release 2 (ie the numerically first CG will not be the valid symbol)? thanks 5) Gene or accession: CG18438 Gene annotation error Genes CG18438 and brm should be merged. Comments: In the new release the translation in protein_ID AE003529; AAF49557 remains unchanged but the annotation is changed so that the correct gene symbol is annotated \- brm. Please merge CG18438 and brm. thanks 6) Gene or accession: CG10517 Gene annotation error Genes CG10167 and CG10517 should be merged. Comments: In the new release the translation and annotation in protein_ID AE003593; AAF51686 has been changed, and the annotation of AE003593; AAF51685. Please merge CG10167 and CG10517, they are splice variants of one gene. Will CG10517 be the valid symbol as CG10167 has been dropped in release 2 (ie the numerically first CG will not be the valid symbol)? thanks 7) Gene or accession: CG1540 Gene annotation error Genes CG1540 and CG18436 should be merged. Comments: In the new release the translation and annotation in protein_ID AE003765; AAF56794 has been changed, and the translation of AE003765; AAF56795. They are now annotated as being 2 genes when in fact they are splice variants of the same gene. Here I am guessing the numerically first symbol CG1540 will be valid as both symbols have the same 'status'. thanks Nellie