WormBook in GENETICS

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The last three chapters of WormBook in GENETICS were published earlier this year.  I want to express my gratitude to all of the authors, section editors and advisory board members for bringing this project to fruition, and to the Genetics Society of America and the editors and staff of GENETICS for all of their support.  I encourage everyone to take a look at the wonderful compendium of knowledge of the biology, genetics, genomics, and evolutionary biology of C. elegans resulting from this community effort. Like the classic Cold Spring Harbor C. elegans books and the original WormBook published under the WormBase aegis at Caltech, I am confident that this collection of reviews will remain valuable for decades to come, for trainees and experienced C. elegans biologists alike.

Even though WormBook is officially completed, the Editor in Chief of GENETICS, Howard Lipshitz, has agreed that future reviews on C. elegans will be linked to the WormBook tab on the GENETICS/OUP website. He also has appointed me as a Consulting Editor for the journal to provide advice to the Senior Editors of the ‘Perspectives & Reviews’ section on ways to add new reviews of interest to the worm community.

Best regards,

Iva Greenwald

A message from Iva Greenwald

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I had the privilege of serving as Editor for an Open Access PNAS “Perspectives” article that celebrates the worm and the shared NIH-funded resources from which we all benefit (including this one!).  The authors are six Nobel laureates and the PIs of the CGC, WormBase, and WormAtlas NIH grants.  

Clicking on the link will be helpful as a show of community support.  If you are so inclined, please post it to social media.  Thanks very much.

-Iva Greenwald

BLAST Service for the Alliance of Genome Resources!

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Check out the new BLAST service at the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance). This service supports separate environments for each of the Model Organism Databases (MODs; currently for flies and worms) as well as a unified environment for the Alliance. Results provide detailed alignments and annotations for query regions of similarity to various genomes within the Alliance. 

Upcoming Alliance webinar – model organisms and rare diseases

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Guest Presenter, Damian Smedley, Professor of Computational Genomics, Queen Mary University of London, will speak on ‘Use of model organism data in rare disease diagnostics and disease-gene association discovery’. If you’re interested in attending this webinar, please register to get the Zoom link by Wednesday September 24 at midnight EDT https://tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt. If you have already signed up, you don’t need to sign up again.

Remember to check the Alliance event calendar for the webinar schedule.

WormBase inverted repeat data not current

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Please note that inverted repeat data in WormBase is not current (frequency, size, and character of inverted repeats in C. elegans and related tracks on JBrowse). Our top priority is moving data to the Alliance. As announced, the WS298 release will be frozen on the WormBase website and all data will be curated and/or updated at the Alliance. Please bear with us during this transition period of moving data to the Alliance.