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FlyExpress

FlyExpress :: Image Pattern Search Engine

The FlyExpress project is an image-matching search engine for finding biologically similar gene expression patterns in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) embryo images.  The fruit fly is a model organism because it shares a majority of its genes with humans, and exhibits many of the same genetically-related medical problems and humans, such as cancer and addiction to alcohol.  Scientists use our website to visually compare genes and make discoveries about how they are related to one another based on its physical location on the embryo.  The latest version includes data from scientific publications (PubMed) allowing users to initiate a search using a PubMed ID or by starting with a PubMed Gene Expression Pattern (GEM).

FlyExpress contains over 100,000 images of expression from over 4,000 genes from two high-throughput in situ hybridization studies,  and approximately 30,000 images extracted from peer-reveiewed publications.

Website: http://www.flyexpress.net

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis

MEGA, Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis, is a freely available software to aid scientists and students in making dendrograms, or phylogenetic trees using nucleotide or protein sequences. It is developed by Koichiro Tamura from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Daniel Peterson, Nicholas Peterson, Glen Stecher, Sudhir Kumar from Arizona State University, and Masatoshi Nei from Pennsylvania State University.

Website: http://www.megasoftware.net

Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution

The Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution is an international organization whose goals are to provide facilities for association and communication among molecular evolutionists and to further the goals of molecular evolution, as well as its practitioners and teachers. In order to accomplish these goals, the Society publishes two peer-reviewed journals, Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution. The Society also sponsors an annual meeting and confers honors and awards to students and researchers.

Website: http://www.smbe.org

American Genetics Association

The American Breeders Association held its first meeting in 1903 to discuss the ‘new’ science of Genetics for practical breeding of plants and animals. In 1914, the ABA became the American Genetic Association. Today, the AGA continues to disseminate achievements in genetics through the Journal of Heredity. The Journal, in print for over 100 years, publishes organismal research in areas of general interest to the genetics community.

Website: http://www.theaga.org