Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project fruitfly.org web page archive

The Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP) was a consortium of the Drosophila Genome Center, initially funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Cancer Institute, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, through its support of work in the Susan Celniker, Ben Brown, and Gary Karpen laboratories.

The goals of the Drosophila Genome Center were to finish the sequence of the euchromatic genome of Drosophila melanogaster to high quality and to generate and maintain biological annotations of this sequence. In addition to genomic sequencing, the BDGP 1) produced gene disruptions using P element-mediated mutagenesis on a scale unprecedented in metazoans; 2) characterized the sequence and expression of cDNAs; and 3) developed informatics tools that support the experimental process, identified features of DNA sequence, and allowed us to present up-to-date information about the annotated sequence to the research community.

This archive was compressed using the free 7-zip software (https://www.7-zip.org/). You will need to install and run 7-zip in order to extract the archive. The archive is a fully self-contained web site that can be used directly by opening the top-level index.html file using your web browser without requiring an HTTP server to run. It contains an archive of the full contents of the BDGP fruitfly.org web site and ftp.fruitfly.org FTP file server.