FlyBase has added “Expression Summary Ribbons” to gene report pages. The expression ribbons provide a graphical overview of expression data from two sources: (1) anatomy expression data manually curated by FlyBase from individual publications and (2) high-throughput stage specific RNA-seq data. The new ribbons can be found at the top of the “Expression Data“ section of the gene report.

Manually curated transcript and protein expression data is presented in a simple yes/no ribbon, in which the presence of curated data is marked by a colored tile. A colorless tile represents absence of manually curated data.

High-throughput stage specific RNA-seq expression data is presented as a heat map. This ribbon is a compressed version of the data from the modENCODE RNAseq project, providing an at-a-glance view.