A short video of a global heat map of real time pings to FlyBase website from one of our talented developers (not sped up) @flybase.bsky.social @iubiology.bsky.social

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Thanks to all who have expressed a willingness to support FlyBase. The wheels of bureaucracy are large and grind slowly. We expect to have a fee process in place by July. @flybase.bsky.social

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The current fundraising link is for EU labs to support FlyBase UK group. Still setting up to collect fees from U.S. and all other labs. Stay tuned. Divided because of recent international firewalls.

The Alliance of Genome Resources public API endpoints now return JSON payloads in which null fields are omitted for brevity, easier reading and easier parsing of JSON output. Alliance public APIs can be browsed on our Swagger API user interface page: OpenAPI UI (Powered by Quarkus 3.4.2)

FlyBase release FB2024_06 is now live. Release notes are here flybase.org/static/new-t...

It's a new month, and that means fresh Latest Technical Advances! The papers submitted over the last month are here wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase... Don't forget: if you've recently published a paper reporting a cool new technique, resource, or reagent, flag it when you Fast-Track Your Paper.