Ultimately this is going to be lab-specific stuff, nothing to get excited about: stock lists, protocols, etc. Right now it's obviously a little bare (but aren't you glad I spared you seeing one of those wretched little "Under Construction" gifs?).
- FlyBase is the first place to go to look for anything electronic regarding flies.
- REDFly is a database of experimentally verified CRMs (Cis Regulatory Modules) in Drosophila.
- Want to see some dazzling images of fly biology? The Drosophila Image Award is given out at the Fly Meeting every year (since 2004, anyway) and the finalists and winners are viewable online.
- Well, they're not flies, but bees are kind of cool anyway. And now they have their own genomic database.
- What other genes have an expression pattern like yours? Try looking in FlyExpress.
- The Drosophila Genome Resource Center makes available an ever-expanding array of molecular and cellular reagents for the fly community: cDNA clones, cell lines, microarrays, and more.
- One can never have enough flies. The stock centers at Bloomington and Kyoto exist to fill that gnawing need.
- What proteins does your favorite hook up with? Try searching the Drosophila Interactions Database to find out.
- Protein-trapping screens yield useful fusions of markers like GFP to your protein of interest. To see if someone's already done the work for you, look at the lines from Mike Buszczak's screen at the Carnegie Institute and Lynn Cooley's screen at Yale.
- FlyAtlas is a new searchable database telling you about the relative expression level of your gene of interest in head, brain, midgut, hindgut, and tubules relative to the entire animal, using Affymetrix microarrays.
- The Drosophila Gene Disruption Project is a consortial effort by the Bellen, Hoskins, and Spradling labs to isolate a transposon insertion in every gene in the fly genome; this site allows you to search for insertions you may be interested in.
- The Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center (VDRC) has recently opened to provide access to the genome-wide transgenic RNAi library generated by the Dickson group.
- Those of us teaching at PUIs (Primarily Undergraduate Institutions) face a number of unique challenges; Karen Hales at Davidson is hosting a website for people working with flies at PUIs.
- Dan Savage has a sex-advice column and podcast. Why mention this? A Drosophila researcher called in with sex advice for fruit flies.