Subject: Helping FlyBase: EDRC-H31 Dear Timofey, We are (belatedly) curating the abstracts for the 18th (Gottingen) European Drosophila Research Conference, for FlyBase. I am writing in connection with your abstract: 'Tom Thumb, a novel essential Drosophila protein which plays a role in nucleolus and mitochondria'. You mention a gene symbol that is new to FlyBase, tmb. 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. With best regards, Rachel. \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Drysdale, Ph.D. FlyBase (Cambridge), \---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Helping FlyBase: EDRC-H31 Dear Rachel, You can write in your records: tom thumb (tmb) corresponds to CG14283. We named the CG14283 tom thumb according to larval mutant phenotype and the protein length. A publication concerning tmb (CG14283) is currently in preparation. Thank you for keeping FlyBase records up to date! With best wishes, Timofey. \-- Timofey Tselykh, M.Sci. tel.: \+358-9-191-59896 Drosophila Research Group Developmental Biology Program Institute of Biotechnology University of Helsinki P.O.Box 56 (Viikinkaari 9) 00014 Helsinki FINLAND
