Check out the new chapter in WormBook, GENETICS, ‘Biology of the Caenorhabditis elegans germline stem cell system‘ by Jane Hubbard and Tim Schedl.
Maintenance Service Interruption: Thursday, November 28, 2019.
WormBase will be unavailable for approximately one hour on Thursday, November 28, 2019 starting at 12:00 PM ET (UTC -4). We apologize in advance for the disruption and plan to have service restored as quickly as possible.
Status: 12:08 PM ET, upgrade complete.
WS273 version of WormBase
Please note that the WS273 version of WormBase is live on our website. The release notes for this version contain a detailed report of the various entities (eg. gene, allele) and the number of sequence and biological annotations.
Some of the highlights are:
C.elegans Nanopore data has been integrated and is being used to improve UTR annotation. Further work on improving our automatic transcript annotation is ongoing.
This release includes a few hundred gene splits in Pristionchus pacificus predicted by the Sommer lab based on IsoSeq analysis. More will be included in future releases.
Please cite the original papers where possible
When you write a paper, wherever possible cite the original, primary papers so the authors get credit. If you have used data amalgamated by WormBase, then please cite WormBase with the release version.
C. elegans meetings at the TAGC 2019
The C. elegans community is having sessions at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), April 22-26, 2020 in Washington DC, organized by Martha Soto and Mike Boxem. Note that the abstract and early registration deadline is December 5. The C. elegans relevant page of the TAGC is here.