Subject: Helping FlyBase: CSH-84
Dear Marc,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the 2001 CSH Neurobiology
of Drosophila Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
'The genomics of gcm-dependent glial cell development: identification of gcm
target genes by computational and DNA microarray approaches.'
You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, draper. Do you know which of the
Genome Project CG annotations your gene corresponds to? All the CGs
have corresponding gene records in FlyBase already and we don't like to
make duplicate records for what is actually the same gene unless we
can't avoid it. If your gene does not correspond to a CG then perhaps
you could tell me its map location, as this is valuable information for
the genome annotation project.
Thank you very much for your help,
with best wishes,
Rachel.
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Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D.
FlyBase (Cambridge),
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Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: CSH-84
Hi Rachel,
Here's some info. draper (drpr) is CG2086, aka  BcDNA:gh03529--we  thought
we'd call it drpr to make it a little more interesting, it's looks like its
involved in glial morphogenesis in the embryonic CNS. Our molecular
analysis of some full length cDNAs tells us that another gene that is
annotated inside a drpr intron, CG18172, is actually the same gene. We'll
update the locus as soon as we're done with the molecular analysis, but you
may want to list both of the above CG#s with drpr.
Let me know if I can provide any other information. best, Marc
Marc R. Freeman
Institute of Neuroscience/HHMI
1254 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1254
(541)346-3041