[Genetics] VL: Drosophila Genome Release 3.1 Available

[Jouni Aspi]

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>Lähettäjä: FlybaseP@firefly.bio.indiana.edu
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>Lähetetty: 18. helmikuuta 2003 20:17
>Vastaanottaja: FlyBase.Users@All.Over.The.World
>Aihe: Drosophila Genome Release 3.1 Available
>
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>FlyBase is pleased to announce that we have completed a revision of the
>annotations of the Release 3 finished euchromatic genome sequence of
>Drosophila melanogaster.  The finished sequences were produced by the
>Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP) and the Baylor Human Genome
>Sequencing Center (BHGSC).  A preliminary version of these revisions,
>Release 3.0, was submitted to GenBank between June and September of 2002.
>
>The new revised annotations, which we refer to as Release 3.1, are now
>available through FlyBase gene reports and gene annotation pages (aka
>Gadfly) and through GenBank (with a submission date of 14-FEB-2003).  A
>series of papers from the BDGP, FlyBase and other colleagues were published
>as a series in Genome Biology and are accessible electronically at
>http://genomebiology.com/drosophila/.
>
>We anticipate that future Releases will refine the gene annotations based
>on continued sequence finishing efforts by the BDGP, additional ESTs and
>full-insert cDNA sequences from the Drosophila Gene Collection (DGC)
>project of the BDGP as well as from the Drosophila community, the
>Drosophila research literature, and from comparative analysis with other
>insect genomes, including the published mosquito sequence (Anopheles
>gambiae), and the nearly completed whole genome shotgun draft sequences of
>the BHGSC on Drosophila pseudoobscura and the honeybee (Apis mellifera).
>
>We strongly recommend that you compare the gene annotations in Release 3.1
>with previous Releases for genes of interest.  As always, we encourage
>members of the community to bring possible errors in the annotations to our
>attention through the "Feedback: Fix annotation error" link on each of the
>Gene Annotation pages.
>
>We hope you will find Release 3.1 helpful in your research projects.
>
>Respectfully,
>
>The FlyBase Consortium
>