Due to substantial changes to the underlying data model and the need
for extensive testing, the next live release of the database will be
WS126, arriving the week of July 5th. WS124 and WS125 will be
available on the development
server for users interested in testing these releases.
New Microarrays Now Available
The Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University has funding from
NHGRI and HHMI to produce and distribute microarrays for use by
C. elegans investigators. The arrays contain 60 mers designed
to represent 20,966 C. elegans genes from WormBase release WS93
and are available for $90 (US). Additional information, inlcuding
order forms, is available online.
East Asia Worm Meeting Registration
Registration for the
East Asia C. elegans meeting is now available. The meeting will be
held from June 28th-July 1st on Awaji Island in Japan. The
registration deadline is May 21st.
West Coast Worm Meeting Registration
Registration
for the 2004 West Coast Worm Meeting, to be held at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, Aug. 21-24, is now available. The deadlines
are Friday, July 2, midnight PDT for submission of abstracts, and
Thursday, July 15, midnight PDT for early registration.
Caenorhabditis Genome Sequencing Update
The whole genome shotgun sequencing phase of C. remanei has
been completed and the ~1.43 million reads can be searched using BLAST.
Fosmid end reads are in progress to be followed by 2 rounds of
automated finishing, which should result in a high-quality draft
assembly by the end of the summer. C. japonica and
CB5161 are being backcrossed and checked for heterozygosity.
They are scheduled for whole genome shotgun sequencing in August and
December.