From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Wed Sep 08 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!morgan.harvard.edu From: flybase@morgan.harvard.edu (FlyBase Project Members) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Major FlyBase Release Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 93 03:35:02 GMT Sender: kristoff@net.bio.net Lines: 84 FlyBase announces a major new release of the Drosophila database. Release 9309 sees three very major changes to FlyBase. The first is the merger of the GENES section of Lindsley and Zimm (1992) with Ashburner's September 1992 files and the subsequent revision of the merged data. The file flybase/genes/genes93.doc describes the changes made, the text is in flybase/genes/genes93.txt. This file not only corrects the errors found in Lindsley and Zimm but contains considerable new material, including information on 1835 new loci. The total number of genetic loci in genes93 is 5684. The second major change is the release of flybase/refs, a unified bibliography of publications concerning Drosophila. Available in three different formats, flybase/refs contains 58,552 records, including all of those from the published bibliographies of Herskowitz, from MEDLINE and from BIOSIS (by permission). The third major change is a unified directory of Drosophila workers, with over 4500 entries. New files describing P1 clones of both D. melanogaster and D. virilis are now available on FlyBase. Many other FlyBase files have been updated for this release, and several FlyBase 'working papers' suggesting controlled vocabularies for the description of Drosophila genes are published. Many of the files of FlyBase are available for interactive searching using Gopher. The documentation has been thoroughly revised and is now broken into two manuals, called the FlyBase User Manual and the FlyBase Reference Manual. The Reference Manual is available, as flybase/docs/Reference-manual.text or flybase/docs/Reference-manual.ps in text and Postscript format. The User Manual is available as flybase/docs/User-manual.text (or flybase/docs/User-manual.doc) in text format. FlyBase information can be accessed through use of the Internet Gopher or by anonymous ftp to ftp.bio.indiana.edu. FlyBase file structure There now follows a description of the top-level directory structure of the FlyBase files as kept on the IUBio server. flybase/About-flybase A very brief introduction to FlyBase. flybase/genes A merge of the GENES sections of Lindsley and Zimm (1992) with Ashburner's original files and with subsequent updates. flybase/aberrations Chromosome aberrations sorted by class and cytological breakpoints. flybase/maps A genetic map of D. melanogaster and the Deficiency maps from Lindsley and Zimm (1992). flybase/function Drosophila genes sorted by their 'functions'. flybase/clones Lists of Drosophila clones sorted by cytological location. flybase/stocks Stocks lists for D. melanogaster and Drosophila species. flybase/refs A 'complete' bibliography of publications on Drosophila. flybase/seqs Files of Drosophila genes with nucleic acid and protein data base accession numbers. flybase/people An address, telephone, fax and email directory of Drosophila workers. flybase/news News about FlyBase, an archive of DIN and of the bionet.drosophila bulletin board. flybase/docs FlyBase documentation files and other documents. Includes the complete text of Lindsley and Zimm (1992), a file of errors in this book and a file of errors in Ashburner's Greybook. flybase/allied-data Drosophila databases distributed but not maintained by FlyBase, includes the P1 clone lists and European cosmid lists sorted by in situ sites. flybase/work Copies of working documents of the FlyBase Consortium. .