Bursaphelenchus xylophilus on WormBase

The newly published Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Kikuchi et.al) is as of WS229 available at WormBase including it’s gene set. The data are available as GFF3 and FASTA files for download, and has been added to GBrowse and BLAST.

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is a pine parasite causing considerable economic damage and can give insights into evolution of plant parasites by comparing it, for example, to Meloidogyne.

You can find data files on our FTP site

We would like to remind users that our FTP site provides access to various data files.  WormBase has recently improved the organization of it’s FTP site so that users can easily browse and find different data files. We have made nearly every file directly accessible without needing to know what the current version of WormBase is. For example, the following link will always point to the most current release of WormBase:
ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/releases/current-www.wormbase.org-release.

You can also access files related to different genomes for a given release, for example you can go to the C. elegans or C. briggsae specific directories.

ModENCODE Data Access Webinar, Feb 2nd, 2012

The next webinar held by the Data Coordination Center for modENCODE is scheduled for Thursday Feb 2, 12:00 EST. Topic: “Using modENCODE tools: GBrowse and modMINE”. This webinar will discuss the web tools for data retrieval and analysis – data mining interface (modMINE) and genome browser (GBrowse) — both accessible via mod.encode.org. Space is limited so advance registration is necessary. Please email help@modencode.org to reserve your spot. More details and the schedule are available on the modENCODE Wiki.