Ensembl Fruitfly

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About the Fruitfly genome

Assembly and Annotation

The data displayed on the Ensembl Fruitfly site is a compendium of data from different sources, including BDGP, FlyBase and DHGP. The genomic sequence is based on BDGP assembly release 5, and annotations displayed in Ensembl are imported from FlyBase release 5.4 (dated 01 November 2007). No additional gene build has been carried out, however blast hits and protein features have been computed through the Ensembl pipeline.

We have included Drosophila into the Ensembl system to allow people to access the Fly genome through the Ensembl user interface (both for visualisation and data mining) and to provide cross-species integration throught our comparative genomics resources (such as homologous gene links and family pages).

The canonical data for Drosophila is managed at FlyBase and we are working in partnership with them to provide feedback on their resources.

What's New in Ensembl 49

Drosophila melanogaster News

• New import of Fly database
  Ensembl Fruitfly now includes the FlyBase 5.4 annotations. See the Fruitfly home page for more details.
• Functional Genomics
  eFG now includes a database for fruitfly to hold regulatory features formerly stored in the core database, e.g. BioTIFFIN/flyreg.

General News

• Release schedule
  

  Ensembl release 50 will occur in July (rather than in April as originally scheduled).
  Read more...

• API changes - regulatory features
  Regulatory feature support has been moved from the core API to the functional genomics API. More information about using the new code...
• Removal of viral genes
  We have removed a total of about 1200 viral genes from the following species.
  Read more...

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