If you want to see all the data that you were used to seeing on the gene page, remember to open the related widgets on the left sidebar. For example, if you want to see all the alleles/variations of a gene, remember to click on the ‘Genetics’ widget. Once you do this, this preference is remembered.
SoCal Worm Meeting April 28th, 2012
The Southern California Worm Meeting will be held at the California Institute of Technology on April 28th. More information available at: www.SoCalWorm.com.
New WormBase website releasing in two weeks!
We are excited to announce that the beta version of the new WormBase site that was opened for testing six months ago will go live on March 30th. We understand that it may take some time to adjust to the new interface, but hope that the improved organization, customizability, and speed of the site will ease the transition. Once the new website is released, the current (old) website will be frozen at version WS230 and made available for the foreseeable future. We will continue to refine and expand the new site with exciting new features throughout 2012. As always, we welcome all comments and suggestions at [email protected].
You can find data files on our FTP site
We would like to remind users that our FTP site provides access to various data files. WormBase has recently improved the organization of it’s FTP site so that users can easily browse and find different data files. We have made nearly every file directly accessible without needing to know what the current version of WormBase is. For example, the following link will always point to the most current release of WormBase:
ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/releases/current-www.wormbase.org-release.
You can also access files related to different genomes for a given release, for example you can go to the C. elegans or C. briggsae specific directories.
WormBase seeks a Biological Curator
WormBase at Caltech (at Pasadena, CA, USA) currently has seven full-time biological curators as well as several bioinformaticians and software developers. The Caltech group annotates gene expression patterns, gene regulation, functional descriptions, phenotypes, microarray data, cell functions, and protein and gene interactions. We continually try to obtain, store and display whatever information has become most relevant to our community.
We are seeking an individual with substantial C. elegans experience to help analyze gene functions and interactions and incorporate them into WormBase. Curation places a premium on broad scientific knowledge, excellent communication skills, and creative intelligence, as well as on patience and hard work. Computer literacy in UNIX or Linux and in Perl is a plus, but is not required, since curators have the opportunity to develop their skills in bioinformatics at Caltech. While demanding high skill and willingness to serve others, biological curation at Caltech also offers rewards beyond that of a postdoc, one of which is a wide range of future job prospects: biologists who become curators can remain at the forefront of research, and also have the option to move to bioinformatics. A curator’s salary is higher than most postdoc’s, and the general quality of life in Pasadena and Caltech is good. Curators at Caltech work in an excellent academic environment, where they can interact with several laboratories carrying out genomics both at Caltech itself and at affiliated institutions.
Please contact Paul Sternberg ([email protected]) for more information.