Assessing the impact of comparative genomic sequence data on the functional annotation of the Drosophila genome

Casey M Bergman^1,9, Barret D Pfeiffer^1,9, Diego E Rincón-Limas^2,6, Roger A Hoskins¹, Andreas Gnirke³, Chris J Mungall⁴, Adrienne M Wang^1,7, Brent Kronmiller^1,8, Joanne Pacleb¹, Soo Park¹, Mark Stapleton¹, Kenneth Wan¹, Reed A George¹, Pieter J de Jong⁵, Juan Botas², Gerald M Rubin^1,4 and Susan E Celniker¹

¹Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

²Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA

³Exelixis Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA

⁴Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

⁵Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland, Oakland, CA 94609, USA

⁶Current address: Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas-UAMRA, Reynosa, CP 88740, Mexico

⁷Current address: Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA

⁸Current address: Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA

⁹These authors contributed equally to this work