Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10368 Dear Beril, We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 43rd (San Diego) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am writing in connection with your abstract: 'Functional Analysis of the Bestrophin Gene Family in Drosophila.' You mention four genes that are new to FlyBase, Best1, Best2, Best3 and Best4. 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 your genes do not correspond to CGs then perhaps you could tell me their map location, as this is valuable information for the genome annotation project. As it happens we already have a gene record for 'best' (FBgn0040238) resulting from your sequence accession record AF218817, and this is linked to CG6264. Would the other three be CG7259, CG10173 and CG12327? If so please let me know the correspondences of Best1, 2, 3 and 4 to these CGs. Thank you very much for your help, with best wishes, Rachel. \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D. FlyBase (Cambridge), \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10368 Dear Rachel, Thank you for your e-mail. You are right about the CGs mentioned. The way we named the dbest family was dbest1 = CG6264; dbest2 = CG10173; dbest3 = CG12327 and dbest4 = CG7259. I would be happy to modify the abstract to include the CGs if you think it is necessary. Please let me know if there is anything else I can help you with. Best regards, Beril. Beril Tavsanli Mardon Lab Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pathology, S242 One Baylor Plaza Houston, TX 77030
