title: Functional genetics in the post-genomics era: building a better roadmap in Drosophila.
abstract: In this commentary, Rob Kulathinal describes two papers from the Perrimon laboratory, each describing a new online resource that can assist geneticists with the design of their RNAi experiments. Hu et al.'s "UP-TORR: online tool for accurate and up-to-date annotation of RNAi reagents" and "FlyPrimerBank: An online database for Drosophila melanogaster gene expression analysis and knockdown evaluation of RNAi reagents" are published, respectively, in this month's issue of GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122.
authors.forename: Rob J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kulathinal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000378:metabolism*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics*; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation / Q000379:methods*; D034622:RNA Interference; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000235:genetics*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering
keywords: FlyPrimerBank; RNAi; UP-TORR; genetic map; genomic roadmap; model organism database; online resource
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