I donated my PhD present to @FlyBaseDotOrg http://flybase.org/ , which had a major funding cut. THE genes & genomes & stocks database for #Drosophila research! Scientists, could you do your work without databases of this kind? Here's how I needed them

(1) The power of #Drosophila comes with the community stock centres. @FlyBaseDotOrg is the prime spot to look up stocks for your gene of interest. Our mitochondrial SAM paper in @ScienceAdvances started here.

(2) We @WredenbergLab donated our SAMC fly lines to the community and I was absolutely amazed by the help we got during the process from @flystocks and @FlyBaseDotOrg, who made sure the stock nomenclature was correct, boosting #ReproducibleResearch.

(3) The fly is a powerful research tool in need of public advocacy. @FlyBaseDotOrg is an information board for legal updates and world-wide initiatives incl. conferences, teaching and tools. Thanks to this info, we sent our flies from Europe to US, enabling #collaboration

(4) This is a call to think about databases of all kinds. We need databases of prior information to do our science, and these do not exist by some fundamental law of nature.

(5) Why not include the databases that were most important to your work in your acknowledgements to secure their future funding?

Thanks to my amazing colleagues @MolMet_KI @WredenbergLab @karolinskainst for contributing!