Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10932
Dear Leslie,
We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 44th
(Chicago) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase.
I am writing in connection with your abstract:
Maternal-Effect Screens Identify Mutants That Reduce Germ Cell Number.
You mention genes that are new to FlyBase, shakelton, out-of-sync,
bebra and poirot. 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.
Also, if you have short symbols for any of these genes, now would be
a good time to tell me what they are and I can enter them correctly in
the database from the outset.
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-10932
Dear Dr. Drysdale,
We are currently in the process of mapping the genes I mentioned: shakelton
(shkl), out of sync (out), and bebra (beb). Therefore I do not yet know the CG
annotations for these genes. poirot (prt) was previously published in
Development, July 2002 as 'poirot, a new regulatory gene of Drosophila oskar
acts at the level of the short Oskar protein isoform' by
Sinka R, Jankovics F, Somogyi K, Szlanka T, Lukacsovich T, Erdelyi M.
Thank you,
Leslie Pusateri
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10932
Dear Leslie,
Thanks very much for getting back to me. Unfortunately out is already
in use for outsiders (FBgn0063400), but shkl and beb are both fine.
oos is available for out of sync, would you like to use that? We do now
have poirot (valid  symbol:name   pcs:parcas ) in our files though didn't
when we first looked at the abstracts (our literature curation a little
behind due to our exertions regarding genome reannotation).
All the best, I'll go with 'oos' for 'out of sync' unless I hear from
you otherwise.
Rachel.
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10932
Dear Dr. Drysdale,
I did not know that out was already in use for outsiders, but oos is out of
step/liprin-alpha, so I cannot use that. I looked up 'oosy' in Flybase and
there are no matches, so let's just go with that for now.
Thanks,
Leslie
Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10932
Hi Leslie,
as it happens oos is only in use as a synonym (Liprin-alpha being the
valid symbol for FBgn0046704).
That seems good enough reason to go with oosy for 'out of sync', to
avoid any confusion, so I will, but I did just want to let you know
that Liprin-alpha is the valid symbol for the 'other' oos.
All the best ,
Rachel.