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Curating and cataloging the world's data for the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster into our database at http://flybase.org. Aiding discovery since 1992.
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Susan Russo Gelbart accepted on behalf of FlyBase, and gave a rousing acceptance speech.

#DROS26 #FlyForward

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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.
FlyBase4d ago
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.
FlyBaseMar 12
FlyBase release FB2026_01 is live!
There is news about FlyBase funding. Go to the FlyBase homepage https://flybase.org/ for details.
FlyBaseFeb 20
Today is the last day to vote for members of the Fly Board. They represent and advocate for us and select the folks who run our annual meeting.
https://genetics-gsa.org/2026-fly-board-election/
FlyBaseDec 15

Updated in FB2025_05: We've added 9 new binary drivers to the Frequently Used GAL4 and Other Binary System Drivers resource https://flybase.org/GAL4/freq_used_drivers/, which documents all binary drivers curated to at least 15 (lexA) or 20 (GAL4) papers.

You can find a link to the Frequently Used GAL4 and Other Binary System Drivers resource at the bottom of the GAL4 etc QuickSearch tab.

Show threadFlyBaseDec 15

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

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.

FlyBaseDec 15
We have recently updated FlyCyc https://biocyc.org/DMEL/organism-summary, 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’.
FlyBaseOct 3
Also #NewInFlyBase for FB2025_04:
You can now access the @alliancegenome.bsky.social BLAST service directly from the FlyBase toolbar at the top of every FlyBase page.
The path is Tools>Genomics Tools>Fly BLAST @ Alliance.
See this recent post for details on the Alliance BLAST service https://mstdn.science/@FlyBase/115272729252726426
Show threadFlyBaseOct 3