Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10523
Dear Bruce,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 42nd
(Washington, D.C.) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
'Identification of novel genes involved in meiosis in D.melanogaster.'
You name several complementation groups 'CG this and that'. For
reason's to do with bioinformatics we are trying to reserve gene
symbols beginning with CG for Computed/Curated genes to do with the
genome annotation process. I'm wondering if you would mind if we
entered these genes into FlyBase as 'mei-CG this and that' instead, so
they would be known in FlyBase as mei-CG1, mei-CG2, mei-CG3, mei-CG4,
mei-CG5, mei-CG6, mei-CG7 and mei-CG8?
Thank you for your help,
with best wishes,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10523
Dear Rachel,
We are now calling them pf-1 (pairing failure-1), pf-2, etc., because of
their cytological phenotype. mei-pf1, mei-pf2, etc., would be ok too.
The CG names were just stand-ins, CG meant complementation group, so I
would not like to see them called mei-CG1, etc. ...Please let me know what you
decide to do.
Bruce McKee