[Genome] difference between dm3 and FlyBase?

[Pauline Fujita]

Hello Joseph,

The "dm3" assembly corresponds to the Apr. 2006 /Drosophila 
melanogaster/ draft assembly (BDGP Release 5), and was provided by the 
Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project <http://www.fruitfly.org/> (BDGP). 
The gene annotations that underlie our "FlyBase Genes" track come from 
release 5.3 annotations (Aug. 2007) provided by FlyBase 
<http://flybase.net>. Looking at the FlyBase website it appears that 
they are using the same genomic sequence assembly (BDGP Release 5) but 
are using a more recent annotation release (5.7). You may, however, want 
to check with FlyBase (http://flybase.net/) for information on what is 
available on their site.

Hopefully this information was helpful and answers your question. If you 
have further questions or require clarification feel free to contact the 
mailing list at genome at soe.ucsc.edu.

Regards,

Pauline Fujita
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu


joseph wrote:
> Hi
> what is the difference between dm3 and FlyBase and which one is more up-to-date?
> Thanks
> Joseph
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