Many of you have written to us in the past and pointed out some spurious human orthology calls for elegans genes, most of these have been noticed in the gene descriptions that appear in the Overview widget on the gene page. WormBase now uses the DIOPT orthology data from the Alliance of Genome Resources and has increased stringency by displaying only those human orthologs that have been determined by three or more methods. This should significantly improve the orthology data in WormBase which is reflected in the gene descriptions. Note that this change will go live in the WS276 version of WormBase coming soon (late April, 2020).
Alliance of Genome Resources updated
The Alliance (alliancegenome.org) 3.0 version released yesterday, has new features and new data related to the use of model organisms in understanding the genetic and genomic basis of human biology, health and disease. Salient features of the 3.0 release include new allele pages with variant and transcript data, new disease models on gene and disease pages, data files available for download, etc. To learn more about the latest features and data, check out the release notes.
Still have time on your hands? Submit data via our ‘Submit Data’ page
You can submit various types of data via our data specific forms found here. The ‘Submit Data’ button is also prominently displayed on our menu bar on the home page on the left hand side. Click on this to be taken to the various data submission forms.
Extra time on your hands? Help WormBase curate phenotypes
WormBase is doing a big push to address the backlog of phenotype curation. Please use our phenotype data submission form to submit phenotype data. Note that you can still submit phenotype data from published papers even if you are not an author on these papers.
C. elegans and related meeting changes
Meetings related to C. elegans and other topics have been postponed, moved to virtual spaces or cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. Look in our Meetings widgets on the home page to find information about plans for these meetings.