Single-cell RNA-Seq data from the CeNGEN consortium
http://www.cengen.org/ are now available on WormBase! Check out the ‘Expression’ widget for your favorite gene page to explore the CeNGEN gene expression graphs. WormBase will integrate more CeNGEN data in future releases.
Please show your support for WormBase by completing this NIH survey on digital resources!
Model Organism Databases are under threat, facing critical budget cuts that impact our ability to provide you with an up-to-date resource to keep your research moving forward.
Please take a few moments to show your support for WormBase and other digital resources by completing this survey from NIH (and read the full announcement).
Responses are due by October 15!
Paper of interest: “Model organism databases are in jeopardy”
See paper by Hugo Bellen, Jane Hubbard, Ruth Lehmann, Hiten Madhani, Lila Solnica-Krezel and Michelle Southard-Smith.
Take note! Author First Pass Version 3 now in production!
WormBase is excited to announce the release of a newly updated version of Author First Pass (AFP). Based on valuable feedback from our users, we’ve made several improvements, including:
- Acknowledge author contributions on WormBase Paper and Person pages
- Improved accuracy of entity extraction
- Simplified data entry and updated instructions for data submission
- Created a link to the ‘WormBase AFP Webinar‘ video
- Updated the FAQs
Further enhancements and details are available in the V3 Release Notes.
As always, thank you to the awesome C. elegans community for your participation and input; we look forward to seeing your future submissions!
New release of WormBase ParaSite
Release 16 of WormBase Parasite has gone live. Read about it here: https://wbparasite.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/announcing-wormbase-parasite-release-16/