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.

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.

Evidence tracks from the FlyBase CAF1 assemby have been ported to the GEP UCSC Genome Browser mirror. In addition to the predicted ortholog and GLEANR gene prediction tracks, we have also added a GEP Fosmids track that displays the approximate location of the fosmids used in the GEP Sequence Improvement Project.

The GEP UCSC Browser mirror on gander has been updated to release 197. All the D. erecta and D. mojavensis assemblies are now available on gander. Please contact us if you have any questions about the new features available on the new genome browse or if you encounter any problems with the genome browser.

The sequence and annotation data displayed in the Genome Browser are freely available for academic, nonprofit, and personal use with the following conditions:

• Genome sequence data use restrictions are noted within the species sections on the Credits page.
• Some annotation tracks contributed by external collaborators contain proprietary data that have specific use restrictions. To check for restrictions associated with a particular genome assembly, review the database/README.txt file in the assembly's downloads directory.