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Drosophila reference genomes

Which Drosophila genome data( reference genome and annotation files) do most scientists use? Thanks!

genome drosophila model organisms annotation

We mostly use the reference from UCSC (dm6, BDGP6), and annotations from flybase: http://flybase.org

here is the reference data for fruitfly on UCSC, And I used to batch download genomes from UCSC, there is rsync service, easy to maintain the local dataset.

see here: http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fruitfly

$ rsync -avzP rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm6/bigZips/ .

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NCBI/Ensembl/UCSC have Fly genome versions available.

You are also going to find Fly genomes at FlyBase (parts may need a subscription).

Okay thanks. Is there a more specific link? I downloaded genome files (~23) from http://www.fruitfly.org but it's difficult to know which is the complete genome reference ( similar to hg19.fasta). Thanks!

What about the transcriptome? For example, to align to the reference genome I would use the genome.fa and features.fa but If I want o to align to the transcriptome I would need a transcripts.fa Thank you so much for your help!

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