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. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D710-5.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp1006. Epub 2009 Nov 24.

FlyTED: the Drosophila Testis Gene Expression Database

Jun Zhao  1 , Graham Klyne, Elizabeth Benson, Elin Gudmannsdottir, Helen White-Cooper, David Shotton
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FlyTED: the Drosophila Testis Gene Expression Database

Jun Zhao et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan.

Abstract

FlyTED, the Drosophila Testis Gene Expression Database, is a biological research database for gene expression images from the testis of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. It currently contains 2762 mRNA in situ hybridization images and ancillary metadata revealing the patterns of gene expression of 817 Drosophila genes in testes of wild type flies and of seven meiotic arrest mutant strains in which spermatogenesis is defective. This database has been built by adapting a widely used digital library repository software system, EPrints (http://eprints.org/software/), and provides both web-based search and browse interfaces, and programmatic access via an SQL dump, OAI-PMH and SPARQL. FlyTED is available at http://www.fly-ted.org/.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
FlyTED browse results, presented as an array of captioned image thumbnails, for the gene expression location Cup-like_pattern_of_dismal_end_of_elongating_spermatids.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Example of an advanced search, a search for images of genes CG18628 and MtnA that are expressed in a terminal epithelial cell. (A) The interface for entering the search conditions. (B) The search results with image thumbnails.
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