Assembly and Annotation

The data displayed on the Ensembl Fruitfly site is a compendium of data from different sources, including BDGP, FlyBase and DHGP. The genomic sequence is based on BDGP assembly release 5, and annotations displayed in Ensembl are imported from FlyBase release 5.4 (dated 01 November 2007). No additional gene build has been carried out, however blast hits and protein features have been computed through the Ensembl pipeline.

We have included Drosophila into the Ensembl system to allow people to access the Fly genome through the Ensembl user interface (both for visualisation and data mining) and to provide cross-species integration throught our comparative genomics resources (such as homologous gene links and family pages).

The canonical data for Drosophila is managed at FlyBase and we are working in partnership with them to provide feedback on their resources.