Using FlyBase: A Database of Drosophila Genes and Genetics

Victoria K Jenkins; Aoife Larkin; Jim Thurmond; FlyBase Consortium

doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-2541-5_1

Using FlyBase: A Database of Drosophila Genes and Genetics

Methods Mol Biol. 2022:2540:1-34. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2541-5_1.

Authors

Victoria K Jenkins¹, Aoife Larkin², Jim Thurmond³; FlyBase Consortium

Affiliations

¹ The Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. [email protected].
² Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.

PMID: 35980571
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2541-5_1

Abstract

Since 1992, FlyBase has provided a freely available online database of information about the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Data in FlyBase is curated manually from research papers as well as computationally from a variety of relevant sources, to serve as an information hub that enables and accelerates research discovery. This chapter aims to give users new to the database an overview of the layout and types of data available, as well as introducing some tools with which to access the data. More experienced users will find useful information about recent improvements and descriptions to enable more efficient navigation of the database.

Keywords: Database; Drosophila; Fly; FlyBase; Gene; Genome.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Databases, Genetic
Drosophila melanogaster* / genetics
Drosophila* / genetics
Genes, Insect
Genome, Insect

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding