If you would like to register a new lab and/or receive strain and allele designations please consult the WormBase documentation page here. This page also describes the nomenclature that WormBase requires and uses to describe genes, alleles, strains, gene knockouts, modifiers (suppressors, revertants and enhancers), and chromosomal aberrations (duplications, deficiencies, inversions and translocations) .
Check out the experimental evolution chapter in WormBook!
Read about the the goals and major foci of experimental evolution with C. elegans and related species, in the chapter ‘Experimental Evolution with Caenorhabditis Nematodes‘ in WormBook GENETICS, by Henrique Teotónio et al.
Phenotype micropublication submission form now live!
Do you have phenotype results that you want to micropublish? A beta version of the phenotype submission form is now available online on micropublication.org. Try it out, submit your data here! Questions? Reach out to us at contact@micropublication.org.
WormBase is updated to WS260
The 260th version of WormBase has been released! The release notes that are published with each new release gives you various statistics about the data in the current release as well as providing a quick peak at the breath and depth of the data in WormBase. It also lists all the data files available for download at our FTP site. Check all of these out and let us know if you have any suggestions or questions!
WormBase release information
WormBase follows a two month release cycle. Bug fixes, tool improvements, curation of additional data, corrections to data, testing of the website, all happen prior to a new release of WormBase. For every new release, new data from manual curation and from automated pipelines are added. The version or release number is displayed on the WormBase home page at the top, for eg., WS259 is the current release of WormBase. If you are looking at data sets periodically, please note the version/release you are looking at, because data may have changed between releases. A list of all the data and numbers are available in the release notes for WS259. Release notes are available on the Release Schedule page (link available in the footer navigation or from the home page from the top menu bar, About–>What’s New–>Release Schedule–>.) Click on the release number in the Release History table.