Keep track of Alliance webinars here, these talks will will cover a range of topics related to literature and data at the Alliance. Note that you will have to register in order to receive the zoom link.
New top 10 community curators list for ACKnowledge data
Thanks to all our community curators for their contributions to the ACKnowledge project! The new top 10 list is available on WormBase, check it out!
New Alliance version released
As you know WormBase is harmonizing, transitioning and displaying data at the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance). Check out the latest version of the Alliance (7.5.0) for data related to your favorite model organism and other ones! Don’t forget to look at the release notes which explain the details of this release. Please note that all WormBase data is not yet available at the Alliance, we thank you for your patience and understanding during the transition period.
New chapter in WormBook, GENETICS about gene expression in C. elegans
Check out the new chapter in WormBook, GENETICS, “Detecting gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans” by John Calarco, Seth Taylor and David Miller.
Change in gene summaries for WS294
A gene summary is a brief description of the key functional aspects of a gene and appears in the “Overview” widget of every gene page in WormBase. Recently we changed the rules for inclusion of data such as large scale expression cluster data and protein domain data in gene summaries. When functional data as represented by Gene Ontology (GO) process, function or cellular component annotations are available for a gene, these are used to generate a gene summary. When no GO annotations are available for a gene, then functional data from the orthologous human gene is included in the gene summary. Further, if no tissue or cellular expression is available for the gene, expression cluster and protein domain data are included in the gene summary. Please see the microPublication that describes these updates to the gene summaries for C. elegans and other nematodes in the WS294 release of WormBase.