New Publication: In-silico definition of the Drosophila melanogaster matrisome

Our paper in collaboration with Sally Horne-Badovinac (University of Chicago) is available on bioRxiv. In this paper, we used a bioinformatic approach combining gene orthology and protein structure analysis and an extensive curation of the literature to define the Drosophila matrisome. Similar to the human genome, we found that ~4% of the Drosophila genome encodes matrisome proteins. To aid the dissemination and usage of the proposed definition and categorization of the Drosophila matrisome by the scientific community, our list has been made available through three public portals: The Matrisome Project, FlyBase, and The Gene List Annotation for Drosophila (GLAD) maintained by the Perrimon lab. Read our article here.