Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-1012A Dear Brian, Please feel free to pass this on to first author T. Christensen \- who is not in the FlyBase people list so I couldn't address it to them myself. 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: 'DmMcm10 interacts with members of the Pre-RC'. You mention a gene that is new to FlyBase, Mcm10. 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. Best wishes, Rachel. \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D. FlyBase (Cambridge), \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Mcm10 Rachel, Thanks for your email, it got to me through Brian Calvi. Mcm10 corresponds to CG9241. Although Flybase reports the incorrect AA length. I've determine experimentally that the protein is 776AA with a MW of 86.5 kD. I also have a question for you as to naming. Gary Karpen's group identified Scim19 which is a P element insertion 76bp 5 prime of the start codon for CG9241, although it has not ben shown that the P element affects CG9241 or CG9242(bur). Thanks--Tim
