Subject: Helping FlyBase: CSH-221
Dear Rachel,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the 2001 CSH Neurobiology
of Drosophila Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
'Novel findings from an overexpression screen: vesicle trafficking in
pathfinding and robo in sense organ formation.'
You mention two genes that are new to FlyBase, Beached and
Gartenzwerg. Do you know which of the Genome Project CG annotations
your genes correspond 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 either of them
do not correspond to a CG then perhaps you could tell me its map
location, as this is valuable information for the genome annotation
project. If you have short symbols in mind for Beached and Gartenzwerg
then if you let me know them I can put them into FlyBase along with
their full names.
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-221
Dear Rachel,
Beached corresponds to CG9011 and Gartenzwerg to CG8487. They could be
abbreviated as bch and garz, in case these aren't
already taken.
Thank you,
Rachel
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: CSH-221
Hi Rachel,
Thank you for your quick response. Couple of things \- I gather from
your mail that you prefer the lower case versions beached and
gartenzwerg (the symbols and names should have the same
capitalization). bch (as a symbol) will not work as bch is already the
symbol for the branch gene (FBgn0000167). How about bchd? Little bit
longer but still short enough for a proper symbol. garz is fine for
gartenzwerg.
All the best,
Rachel.
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: CSH-221
Dear Rachel,
Sure, those are fine. I guess they should be written lower case, since
these genes don't have any dominant phenotype that I know of. At least
that's not how they were identified.
Thanks for the work,
Rachel
Note: CG9011 = Beach1 therefore bchd == Beach1 (FBgn0043362).