WormBase has been updated to the WS179 release [release notes] of the database. The WS179 virtual machine is available on the WormBase FTP site.
WormBook: New chapters and personnel
WormBook experienced some staff changes in the last couple of months. WormBook Editor Lisa Girard and Program Developer and Web Publisher Tristan Fiedler left WormBook in July and August. Jane Mendel, a WormBook author and Senior Research Associate and Lecturer at Caltech, joined WormBook as the new Editor. During the transition period, WormBook expanded the Post-embryonic development section with a new chapter Dauer.
Service Interruption (aceserver)
Aceserver — the WormBase data mining server — will be offline Monday 20 Aug 2007 for scheduled maintenance. Queries using AQL and WQL will be unavailable during this time, as will programmatic access using AcePerl and Bio::DB::GFF.
New release of WormBase: WS178
WormBase has been updated to the WS178 release of the database. Release notes are available on the WormBase Wiki.