Hu Yanhui, Comjean Aram, Rodiger Jonathan, Chen Weihang, Kim Ah-Ram, Qadiri Mujeeb, Gao Chenxi, Zirin Jonathan, Mohr Stephanie E, Perrimon Norbert
D epartment of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Drosophila RNAi Screening Center, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Jan 6;53(D1):D958-D965. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae917.
The design, analysis and mining of large-scale 'omics studies with the goal of advancing biological and biomedical understanding require use of a range of bioinformatics tools, including approaches tailored to needs specific to a given species and/or technology. The FlyRNAi database at the Drosophila RNAi Screening Center and Transgenic RNAi Project (DRSC/TRiP) Functional Genomics Resources (https://fgr.hms.harvard.edu/tools) supports an increasingly broad group of technologies and species. Recently, for example, we expanded the database to include additional new data-centric resources that facilitate mining and analysis of single-cell transcriptomics. In addition, we have applied our approaches to CRISPR reagent and gene-centric bioinformatics approaches in Drosophila to arthropod vectors of infectious diseases. Building on our previous comprehensive reports on the FlyRNAi database, here we focus on new and updated resources with a primary focus on data-centric tools. Altogether, our suite of online resources supports various stages of functional genomics studies for Drosophila and other arthropods, and facilitate a wide range of reagent design, analysis, data mining and analysis approaches by biologists and biomedical experts studying Drosophila, other common genetic model species, arthropod vectors and/or human biology.
为了增进对生物学和生物医学的理解而进行的大规模“组学”研究的设计、分析和挖掘,需要使用一系列生物信息学工具,包括针对特定物种和/或技术需求定制的方法。果蝇RNAi筛选中心和转基因RNAi项目(DRSC/TRiP)功能基因组学资源库(https://fgr.hms.harvard.edu/tools)中的FlyRNAi数据库支持越来越多的技术和物种。例如,最近我们扩展了该数据库,纳入了更多以数据为中心的新资源,以促进单细胞转录组学的挖掘和分析。此外,我们已将果蝇中基于CRISPR试剂和以基因为中心的生物信息学方法应用于传染病的节肢动物传播媒介。基于我们之前关于FlyRNAi数据库的全面报告,在此我们重点关注以数据为中心的工具的新资源和更新资源。总之,我们这套在线资源支持果蝇和其他节肢动物功能基因组学研究的各个阶段,并为研究果蝇、其他常见遗传模型物种、节肢动物传播媒介和/或人类生物学的生物学家和生物医学专家提供了广泛的试剂设计、分析、数据挖掘和分析方法。