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.

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