Legacy allele information in WormBase

As of WS236, published and unpublished allele phenotypes from the books,  C. elegans I and II, will be available through gene and allele pages displayed in the phenotype widget. This focused effort added 4,819 phenotype annotations to 1,431 genes. Until now, these data had been hidden in legacy information from C. elegans I and II,  and were available in WormBase as a block of text under the concise description in the overview widget of the gene page.  As these descriptions constitute valuable gene function information, we are pleased to have these data available for query and computational analysis.

New gene expression data

Interested in seeing the expression profile of your favorite gene during development? When you are on the gene page of interest, select the expression widget to open it, and click on the object whose description begins with ‘Developmental gene expression time-course’.  On the graph page, clicking on the graphs will result in larger images.  We have recently incorporated graphs for over 19,000 genes from the study published in Developmental Cell (Levin et al., 2012).  Check out tbx-34 as an example.