Curating and cataloging the world's data for fruit fly and related species into our database at flybase.org. Aiding discovery since 1992.
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As you may know, NIH abruptly terminated funding to FlyBase curators based in the United Kingdom. Please help us retain these curators and thereby enable ongoing curation of bibliographic, genetic & phenotypic data by contributing annually (tinyurl.com/4jw65mbb). Thank you.
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The 2026 Drosophila Community Service Award was presented earlier this month at #DROS26.
This year's recipients were the REDFly Database Team and the FlyBase Developer Team, for their roles in the development of online repositories for the dissemination of Drosophila data.
ALT The committee for the 2026 Drosophila Community Service Award for outstanding community service included Michelle Arbeitman (Co-chair), Cale Whitworth (Co-chair), Elizabeth Chen, Lydia Grmai, Amy Kiger, and Steven Marygold.
ALT The Community Service Award recipients for 2026 were the REDFly Database Team and the FlyBase Developer team, for their roles in development of online repositories for the dissemination and analysis of Drosophila data.
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We appreciate that the award to the FlyBase Developer Team also recognized our support staff, including system administrators, administrative support, and program director.
ALT The award to the FlyBase development team recognized Database developers Gil dos Santos, Ian Longden, Christopher J. Tabone, and Pinglei Zhou; Web developers Seth Campbell Victor Strelets, and Jim Thurmond; System administrators Kris Broll and Mark Zytkovicz; Administrative support Carol Sutherland and Jolen Seme; and Program director Susan Russo Gelbart.
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Susan Russo Gelbart accepted on behalf of FlyBase, and gave a rousing acceptance speech.
X seems to not support our uploading video at the moment, so here's a link to our Mastodon post:
mstdn.science/@FlyBase/11624…
#DROS26 #FlyForward
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FlyBase release FB2026_01 is live!
There is news about #FlyBase funding. Go to the FlyBase homepage flybase.org/ for details.
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The only FlyBase event of #Dros26 is TONIGHT! Hear Brian Calvi at 7:30 in Sheraton/Chicago 4-7 speak about ‘FlyBase: Past, Present, and Future’.
#DROS26 starts tomorrow! Sadly, most of FlyBase will not be there this year. Brian Calvi, our Indiana University PI, will be speaking on "FlyBase: Past, Present, and Future" during the Techniques and Technology workshop (Sat. 3/7 7:70-7:45, Room Sheraton/Chicago 4-7)
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Reminder: Brian Calvi's FlyBase talk is TOMORROW, March 7, at 7:30-7:45 pm in Room Sheraton/Chicago 4-7 #DROS26
#DROS26 starts tomorrow! Sadly, most of FlyBase will not be there this year. Brian Calvi, our Indiana University PI, will be speaking on "FlyBase: Past, Present, and Future" during the Techniques and Technology workshop (Sat. 3/7 7:70-7:45, Room Sheraton/Chicago 4-7)
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#DROS26 starts tomorrow! Sadly, most of FlyBase will not be there this year. Brian Calvi, our Indiana University PI, will be speaking on "FlyBase: Past, Present, and Future" during the Techniques and Technology workshop (Sat. 3/7 7:70-7:45, Room Sheraton/Chicago 4-7)
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It's that time again! The February #TechicalAdvances are up wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBas…
Want to featured in an upcoming update? Flag your paper with a new resource, technique, or reagent when you #FTYP.
The February updates to the FlyBase #Technical_Advances page just dropped wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBas…
To get your paper reporting a new technique, resource, or reagent featured in a future month, make sure to flag it when you #FTYP!
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The February updates to the FlyBase #Technical_Advances page just dropped wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBas…
To get your paper reporting a new technique, resource, or reagent featured in a future month, make sure to flag it when you #FTYP!
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Oh, hey, the November #TechnicalAdvances have posted! wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBas…
As always, if you want your paper reporting a new technique, resource, or reagent featured in a future month, the only way to make that happen is to flag it when you #FTYP.
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The December #TechnicalAdvances are here! If you want your paper with a new technique , reagent, or resource featured in an upcoming update, make sure to flag it when you #FTYP!
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1/9 🧵 Excited to share our latest paper: GOFlowLLM - Curating miRNA literature with Large Language Models and flowcharts.
Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1093/bioinformati… or highlights below!
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Updated in FB2025_05: We've added 9 new binary drivers to the Frequently Used GAL4 and Other Binary System Drivers resource flybase.org/GAL4/freq_used_d…, which documents all binary drivers curated to at least 15 (lexA) or 20 (GAL4) papers.
ALT The Frequently Used GAL4 and Other System Binary Drivers resource filtered to show a newly added GAL4 driver.
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We have recently updated FlyCyc biocyc.org/DMEL/organism-sum…, the pathway-genome database representing Drosophila metabolism, to include enzymatic complexes as well as further improvements to enzyme annotations. #FlyCyc is now classed as a ‘Tier 1 Highly Curated Organism Database’.
ALT Screenshot of the FlyCyc page at https://biocyc.org.
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FlyCyc represents all the metabolic reactions and pathways of Drosophila melanogaster, computed by combining comprehensive pathway data at BioCyc (MetaCyc) with the set of manually curated/reviewed Gene Ontology annotations at FlyBase.
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Links from FlyBase gene reports to FlyCyc pathway pages have been updated to reflect the latest associations.
You can find those links in the Linkouts subsection of the External Crossrefereences and Linkouts section of Gene Reports.
ALT A FlyBase Gene Report opened to the Linkouts subsection of the External Crossreferences and Linkouts section. The section heading and the FlyCyc Genes linkout have been boxed in bright pink.
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New in FB2025_05: Archive data is back!
FlyBase is participating in the Amazon Web Services Open Data Sponsorship Program. AWS sponsors the storage & data transfer costs for the FlyBase bulk data repository, allowing us to preserve & provide access to nearly 2 decades of archives
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across release versions.
We are grateful to AWS for their generous sponsorship of this data repository, which enables broader access to both current and archival FlyBase data for the Drosophila research community.
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For more information, see the Downloads Overview (wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBas…) or the Registry of Open Data on AWS (registry.opendata.aws), and the FlyBase Commentary flybase.org/commentaries/202…
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🚨Last chance to nominate an outstanding PhD researcher using Drosophila for the Larry Sandler Award! They'll present at #Dros26. Submit your nomination by tonight's deadline: buff.ly/OmPPHUT
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