Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10471
Dear Leonie,
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:
'The Drosophila homolog of the c-myc transcriptional repressor FIR inhibits
growth and proliferation.'
You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, Fir (dFIR). 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: ADRC-10471
The gene we called dFir was is entered in Flybase as pUbsf with CG number
12085. However in a recent publication (Buskirk and Shupbach, Dev. Cell, 2
p343-353)the gene has been called half pint (Hfp).
If you need more information let me know.
Leonie
Leonie Quinn, PhD
Dept. Cell Cycle & Development
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
St Andrew's Place
East Melbourne
Vic, 3002
Australia