FlyBase is dedicated to studying molecular and genetic data of Drosophilidae family. The most well-known member of this family is Drosophila Melanogaster. Flybase is produced by a consortium of researchers from biology and computer science backgrounds. Flybase contains the following information specific to the drosphoilidae family:

• genes and mutant alleles
• details of various genome projects
• bibliographic citations
• information on protein expression and function
• information about natural and engineered transposons of drosophila and chromosomal aberrations along with list of genomic clones
• archives providing significant images of Drosophila's anatomy and developmental stages
• molecular mapping information about Drosophila's anatomy, cytology and genetics
• details of various genome projects on Drosophila including contact information of people working on the Drosophila genome
• several annotation and analytical tools

Flybase provides the following tools:

• Query Builder allows easy access to information on Flybase through a simple yet powerful user interface. Both simple and complex queries can be built using Query Builder.
• Cytosearch provides maps of Dmel genome with sequence and mapping data.
• Apollo is a genome annotation view and editor which was used by FlyBase biologists to construct Release 3 annotations. Apollo is a Java application which you can download and run from your desktop.
• Term Link allows user to search controlled vocabularies used by FlyBase.
• Image Browser provides various images and animations of Drosophila’s anatomy and developmental stages.
• GBrowse is a advanced tool for extracting genomic information.

In addition there are many other useful tools such as quick search, advanced search, coordinate converter, etc.

Contributors: Faryal Tahir, Maria Bashir, Suleman C. Azariah