FlyBase Funding Update – March 2026
The NHGRI funding for FlyBase has been restored for US-based FlyBase teams but the foreign subaward that supported the essential curation team at the University of Cambridge UK has been terminated. Therefore, the Cambridge UK team now requests annual contributions from fly labs to support curation of new data into FlyBase and the Alliance of Genome Resources. Without these annual contributions, FlyBase will become frozen in its current state and become progressively less useful.
Please visit the ‘Contribute to FlyBase’ wiki page for details of how to contribute.
There will be a meeting on Crete in late October 2026 on
"Developmental Dysregulation and Cancer",
partly sponsored by the EU Widening programme.
— Jun 23, 2026.
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The Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center
announces the establishment of the Kathy Matthews Fund to support research resource development,
distribution, and the long-term sustainability of the Stock Center in perpetuity.
— Jun 23, 2026.
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Like many research communities, the FlyBase community has begun using AI tools.
Learn more about what that means for FlyBase users today:
what we are seeing, why we have to put limits on it, why an AI assistant's answer about FlyBase may be wrong,
and what we're exploring so that you can use AI with FlyBase reliably.
— Jun 23, 2026.
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FlyBase is pleased to announce our participation in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program.
Through this program, AWS sponsors the storage and data transfer costs for the FlyBase bulk data repository,
allowing us to preserve and provide access to nearly two decades of archive releases.
— Dec 11, 2025.
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