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. 2021 Mar 13;217(4):iyab019. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyab019

Table 2.

Computational tools and experimental protocols relevant to spatial mapping in Drosophila

Method URL(s) and/or Reference
Computational tools and resources
DistMap https://github.com/rajewsky-lab/distmap (Karaiskos et al. 2017)
SCTCwhatateam https://github.com/thanhbuu04/SCTCwhatateam (Pham et al. 2020)
ASAP https://github.com/DeplanckeLab/ASAP (Gardeux et al. 2017)
FlyMine https://www.flymine.org/flymine/begin.do (Lyne et al. 2007)
BioLitMine https://www.flyrnai.org/tools/biolitmine/web/ (Hu et al. 2020b)
novoSpaRc https://github.com/rajewsky-lab/novosparc (Nitzan et al. 2019)
Probe design for detection of RNA
Oligopaints suite of resources https://oligopaints.hms.harvard.edu/ (Beliveau et al. 2012)
OligoMiner code repository https://github.com/beliveau-lab/OligoMiner (Beliveau et al. 2018; Passaro et al. 2020)
PaintSHOP design resource https://oligo.shinyapps.io/paintshop/ (Hershberg et al. 2020)
ProbeDealer design resource https://campuspress.yale.edu/wanglab/probedealer/ (Hu et al. 2020a)
Experimental methods
In situ hybridization, alkaline phosphatase detection (Weiszmann et al. 2009)
FISH, general methods (Lecuyer et al. 2008, 2011; Legendre et al. 2013; Wilk et al. 2016)
FISH, brain whole mount Protocol at FigShare, https://doi.org/10.25386/genetics.7455137 (Meissner et al. 2019)
SABER-FISH (Amamoto et al. 2019; Kishi et al. 2019)
FP tagging using P-element or piggyBac mobilization (Morin et al. 2001; Kelso et al. 2004; Quinones-Coello et al. 2007)
FP tagging using Fosmids (Sarov et al. 2016)
FP tagging using MiMIC (Venken et al. 2011)
Scarless editing https://flycrispr.org/scarless-gene-editing/ (Lamb et al. 2017)
MiMIC combined with scarless editing (Li-Kroeger et al. 2018)
ALFA system (Gotzke et al. 2019)
Technology-focused reviews
FISH (Young et al. 2020)
Tagging in Drosophila (Kanca et al. 2017)
Fluorescence imaging in Drosophila (Dunst and Tomancak 2019)