Subject: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10641 Dear Kirk, We are currently curating the abstracts for the upcoming 45th (Washington DC) Annual Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am writing in connection with your abstract: A novel Drosophila retina gene with MORN repeats is conserved in Humans. You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, 9C4. 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. Also, if 9C4 has picked up a more descriptive name/symbol since you submitted the abstract then this would be a good time to tell me so I can get it into the database. With best wishes, Rachel. \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D. FlyBase (Cambridge), \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: Helping FlyBase: ADRC-10641 Hi back! Sorry its taken me so long to respond. I was a little worried that by giving the gene symbol someone might scoop me. I guess I've already outed myself though, so.... 9C4 corresponds to CG10233. Its from the reference: Hyde, D., Mecklenburg, K., Pollock, J., Vihtelic, T., and Benzer, S. (1990). Twenty Drosophilia visual system cDNA clones: One is a homolog of human arrestin. PNAS 87, 1008-1012. Thanks for your help. Kirk Mecklenburg Assoc. Prof. Genetics Indiana University South Bend
