This site is a local mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser. It contains the reference sequence and working draft assemblies for many Drosophila genomes currently annotated by students participating in the GEP.

The assemblies available in this site differ from those at the UCSC browser at University California Santa Cruz. We hope you find our assemblies useful.

New RNA-Seq evidence tracks are now available for the D. erecta, D. mojavensis, and D. grimshawi genome browsers. All the blastx alignment tracks have also been updated to FlyBase release 5.39. Additional finished clones from the D. mojavensis Muller D element (3L reference) region have been added into the Dmoj5 database.

29 out of 53 fosmid clones from the D. mojavensis Muller D element (3L reference) region that have been finished by GEP students are now available. All the blastx alignment tracks have also been updated to FlyBase release 5.32

In order to improve support for next-generation sequencing data, the Genome Browser has been updated to release 238. This release added a few navigation features: including the ability to drag-and-zoom and reorder tracks. To zoom to a particular region, click on the starting position at the base position track and then swipe to the end position. The browser will redraw at the new range when the mouse is released. To re-order the tracks, click on the track configuration (gray) bar on the browser image for the track you wish to move and then drag the track to the new position.

All the blastx alignment tracks have also been updated to FlyBase 5.29 and the D. mojavensis Dot assembly (Dmoj4) now includes RNA-Seq data tracks (including TopHat splice site predictions).

In order to synchronize the GEP annotation efforts to the same D. melanoagster reference gene models, a new blastx alignment track has been added to the genome browsers for the D. erecta dot, D. erecta 3L control region, and D. mojavensis dot. This track shows the sequence alignments between proteins in D. melanogaster (Release 5.20) and the project contig sequence. The Refseq track against mRNA in D. melanogaster has been deprecated.