The WS90 release of WormBase made available today has a complete C. elegans genome sequence. The
100,258,171 base pairs are present in six contiguous segments corresponding to the six C. elegans
nuclear chromosomes. On behalf of the C. elegans community we thank the C. elegans Genome
Sequencing Consortium at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Washington University’s Genome Sequencing
Center for this impressive accomplishment. In spite of the
high quality of the sequence, there are undoubtedly remaining errors in the genome sequence, and thus the
Sequencing Consortium will remain active in responding to and resolving any potential errors that
arise. Please inform WormBase of any errors.