The Forcipomyia taiwana genome and transcriptome database (FtwBase) project is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, grant number 109-2327-B-320-001 and 110-2327-B-320-001 to Ming-Der Lin and Chung-Yen Lin.

Ming-Der Lin, Ph.D.,Department of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics,Tzu Chi University, 701 Zhongyang Rd., Sec. 3, Hualien 97004, Taiwan. E-mail: mingder@gms.tcu.edu.tw

Chung-Yen Lin, Ph.D., Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan. E-mail: cylin@iis.sinica.edu.tw