As a valued member of the genetics community, we know you’re no stranger to the vital role that community-driven databases, knowledgebases, and stock centers have played in advancing our understanding of model organisms—rats, worms, flies, maize, yeast, fungal species, and more.
We encourage you to keep using these resources—but most importantly, please take a moment to cite them in-text whenever you’ve used them in the development of a manuscript. This isn’t just good practice, it’s a powerful way to advocate for their importance, as well as helping to secure their funding for the future. Remember: including a link to the resource isn’t the same as citing it!
Here is a handy list of resources and associated citation guidelines:
Saccharomyces Genome Database
Wong et al. 2023
FlyBase
Öztürk-Çolak et al. 2024
WormBase
Sternberg et al. 2024
Mouse Genome Informatics
Baldarelli et al. 2024
Rat Genome Database
Vedi et al. 2023
The Zebrafish Information Network
Bradford et al. 2023
The Alliance of Genome Resources
The Alliance of Genome Resources Consortium 2024
The Gene Ontology Resource
The Gene Ontology Consortium et al. 2023
PomBase
Rutherford et al. 2024
JaponicusDB
Rutherford et al. 2022
The Maize Genetics and Genomics Database
Cannon et al. 2024
The Arabidopsis Information Resource
Reiser et al. 2024
Thank you for taking action to celebrate and support our genetics resources!