A series of refereed research articles from Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, FlyBase and colleagues, describing Release 3 of the Drosophila genome, are freely available online. The articles describe the finishing and annotation of the genome sequence, computational tools, and functional studies.
Heterochromatic sequences in a Drosophila whole-genome shotgun assembly
Most eukaryotic genomes include a substantial repeat-rich fraction termed heterochromatin, which is concentrated in centric and telomeric regions. The repetitive nature of heterochromatic sequence makes it dif...