Two new chapters in WormBook, GENETICS!

Check out the two new chapters in WormBook, GENETICS, “Life history in Caenorhabditis elegans: from molecular genetics to evolutionary ecology” by Christian Braendle and Analise Paaby, and “Neurogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans” by Richard Poole, Nuria Flames, Luisa Cochella.

New Alliance version recently released

Check out the new release (version 7.4.0) of the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance). A notable feature of this release is that it includes ~2.5 million variants of clinical significance from ClinVar! To learn more about this release see the Release Notes.

New WormBook chapters about extracellular vesicles and the cuticle

Check out the two new chapters in WormBook, GENETICS: Extracellular vesicles by Juan Wang, Maureen Barr, and Ann Wehman and The Caenorhabditis elegans cuticle and precuticle: a model for studying dynamic apical extracellular matrices in vivo by Meera Sundaram and Nathalie Pujol.

WormBase WS293 released with balancers now available in SimpleMine

The WormBase website has been updated to the WS293 release (check out the release notes for details). This release features the addition of balancers to SimpleMine! Now you can find balancers and their reference strains for a list of C. elegans genes under the “Genetics, Interactions and Phenotypes” menu.