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Meeting report Recent advances in Drosophila genomics Melissa B Davis and Kevin P White Address: Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. Correspondence: Kevin P White. E-mail: Kevin.white@ Published: 28 July 2004 Genome Biology 2004, 5:339 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2004/5/8/339 ? 2004 BioMed Central Ltd genomes. Collins also suggested that Drosophila will be an ideal testing ground for the methods being used in the NHGRI’s encyclopedia of DNA elements (ENCODE) project, which currently focuses on defining the functional elements in the human genome. Accomplishing complete functional annotation of the Drosophila genome, an effort that has arguably already begun, will add new dimensions to every area of Drosophila research, while providing a critical assess- ment of computational and experimental approaches that may later be applied to the entire human genome. A Conference, Washington DC, USA, 23-28 March 2004. report on the 45th annual Drosophila Research The 45th annual Drosophila Research Conference convened in Washington DC with over 1,600 attendees. A very broad spectrum of Drosophila research was represented at the meeting, and this report highlights some thought-provoking presentations and provides an update on the status of genomic resources for the fly community. Francis Collins (National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) addressed this year’s attendees with a challenge to use the Drosophila melanogaster genome as a model to develop new technolo- gies and approaches for genomic research that can be extended to the human genome. He pointed out that the Drosophila community is positioned to pioneer the techno- Genome annotation Progress reports were given