Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk!MA11 From: MA11@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Drosophila databases Message-ID: Date: 16 Aug 90 13:08:14 GMT Sender: daemon@genbank.BIO.NET Lines: 87 Drosophila Genetic Maps. Version 3.5 16 August 1990 Michael Ashburner Department of Genetics Cambridge, England. Telephone 44-223-333969 Fax 44-223-333992 e-mail ma11@phx.cam.ac.uk The following tables have been compiled from a database of genetic and other information concerning the genetic loci of Drosophila melanogaster. Five tables are included in this release. GENETIC LOCI is a list of the genes of D. melanogastersorted alphabetically; GENETIC MAP is a genetic map of D. melanogastersorted by genetic map position; GENETIC FUNCTION is a list of loci sorted by the "function" of the gene's product; SYNONYMS is a list of synonyms with their "valid" gene symbols. REFERENCES is a table of references to these data. These maps are to be considered as a first draft, they will not be free of errors. I very much welcome being told of errors of fact or ommission. In the longer term it is to be hoped that these tables will be used in the construction of an integrated Drosophiladatabase. There are two immediate plans for expanding these tables. One is to include protein data bank AC numbers, the other to include analogous (?homologous) genes from non-drosophilid organisms. The reference table should be expanded to include full references, and the aim will be to include all references to a particular gene (or, perhaps, all those not included in the final version of Lindsley and Zimm). OBTAINING UPDATES These files are available from the archive fileserver at the Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (IUBIO.BIO.INDIANA.EDU; 129.79.1.101). They can be obtained as Postscript documents (i.e. in a form suitable for printing with a laserwriter, these files are all file.PS) or as text documents (as file.TEXT) by using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The files are in the directory [ARCHIVE.FLY.LOCI] with the following names: Text files: MAINDOC.TEXT [this document] LOCIDOC.TEXT LOCI.TEXT MAPDOC.TEXT MAP.TEXT SYNONYMSDOC.TEXT SYNONYMS.TEXT FUNCTIONDOC.TEXT FUNCTION.TEXT REFSDOC.TEXT REFS.TEXT Postscript files (Courier font): MAINDOC.PS [this document] LOCIDOC.PS LOCI.PS MAPDOC.PS MAP.PS SYNONYMSDOC.PS SYNONYMS.PS FUNCTIONDOC.PS FUNCTION.PS REFSDOC.PS REFS.PS To obtain any of these files use the following commands: >ftp iubio.bio.indiana.edu ftp> user: anonymous ftp> password: guest ftp> cd [archive.fly.loci] ftp> get DOC.PS ftp> get LOCI.PS ... et cetera ... or ftp> mget *.text (to retrieve all TEXT files) ... or ftp> mget. *.PS (to retrieve all POSTSCIPT files) ftp> bye It is hoped that these files will also be available from NETSERV@EMBL.BITNET. These files will be kept updated on these computers. The version number and date of the database will be indicated in the main document (MAINDOC.PS and MAINDOC.TEXT). In the future I also hope to make available a database of aberration breakpoints.