WormBase version WS274 released

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Please note that WormBase version WS274 was released and is the current release now live on the website. The version of the C. elegans reference genome in this release is WBcel235, included since WS235.

Highlights of this release include:

  1. Isoseq data which was presented at the PacBioNorth America User Group meeting. We applied the PacBio post processing pipeline as described here. The resulting sequences are including in the transcript alignments and will be visible on the genome browser. They will also be included in our automatic transcript generation pipeline in a future release of WormBase.
  2. Improved code to generate non-redundant transcripts. Each CDS should now have only unique transcripts.
  3. Improved interaction data display in the Interactions widget: New Venn diagram for the different types of interactions-physical, genetic and regulatory.

For a complete and more detailed list of changes for this release please see:

https://wormbase.org//about/wormbase_release_WS274#0–10










WS273 version of WormBase
 

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Please note that the WS273 version of WormBase is live on our website.Ā  The release notes for this version contain a detailed report of the variousĀ 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.






C. elegans meetings at the TAGC 2019
 

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The C. elegans community is having sessions atĀ The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), April 22-26, 2020 in Washington DC, organized by Martha Soto and Mike Boxem. Note that the abstract and early registration deadline is December 5. The C. elegans relevant page of the TAGC is here.