The NHGRI has approved the Washington University GSC to sequence three
additional Caenorhabditis species: C. remanei,
C. japonica and CB5161.

WormBase literature searches are now powered by Textpresso, seamlessly
enabling direct searches of full text and abstracts. More information
on Textpresso is available at Textpresso’s home at CalTech.

Lincoln Stein, co-PI of WormBase, was named
“Most Innovative in Bioinformatics” in Genome Technology. The
journal’s honors are based upon nominations from Genome Technology
readers, which include more than 20,000 professionals. For more
information, visit Genome
Technology.

New improvements to WormBase are described in WormBase:
a multi-species resource for nematode biology and genomics, a
recent publication from the WormBase Consortium published in the 2004
Database issue of Nucleic Acids
Research.

Volume 17 #5 will be the final printed issue of The Worm Breeder’s
Gazette. First published in 1975 by Bob Edgar and subsequently by the
CGC , the Worm
Breeder’s Gazette played a major role in the early spread of
information in the C. elegans community. Older versions will
continue to be available online at the C. elegans WWW Server.
The 2003 Genetic
Map, published as part of the Gazette, is now available online.