microPublications now indexed in Europe PMC!

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microPublications are now integrated in the search, citation network, text-mining pipeline, ORCID claiming and other tools and services provided by Europe PMC. Indexing in Europe PMC increases the visibility of your microPublication, making it easier for others to find and cite your research. To learn more, visit the Europe PMC website.
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C. elegans as a model for studying human diseases

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There is a growing body of literature showing that C. elegans is a great model that contributes to the study of human disease.  Recently Dr. Andy Golden alerted us to this bit of news: Check out the show ‘Diagnosis’ on Netflix by the New York Times (episode 4). There is a very rare disease caused by mutations in the human KCNMA1 gene. If you study slo-1, perhaps you can help these patients.

WormBase workshop talks at the 2019 IWM available on Youtube

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Talks delivered at the WormBase workshop as part of the International C. elegans meeting at UCLA in June 2019 are now available on Youtube. Please note that these are recordings done at the workshop with external cameras and microphones, so apologies if they are not of the highest quality.  They are linked from their titles below–

  1. Introduction to the WormBase webpages and widgets
  2. WormBase data mining tools: SimpleMine, WormMine, BioMart
  3. WormBase ontologies and gene set enrichment analysis
  4. WormBase JBrowse: tutorial and demo
  5. Community curation
  6. Introduction to the Alliance of Genome Resources