Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been named the 2024 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on microRNAs.
We extend our hearty congratulations to Victor and Gary for this outstanding achievement and their years of service to the C. elegans community and beyond!
To accommodate routine maintenance, WormBase will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes beginning at June 2, 2023, 3PM PDT / 10PM UTC.
Update: Maintenance has been completed and all WormBase services are back online. We apologize for the interruption.
We’re pleased to announce the WS288 release of WormBase. This release includes additional single cell expression data and numerous small quality-of-life improvements to the website. As always, please send any questions or comments to help@wormbase.org. We appreciate your feedback.
The abstract deadline for The 24th Internal C. elegans Meeting (#worm23) is 30 days from today. The meeting will be held June 24-28, 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Don’t delay – submit your abstract today!
GBrowse — the original genome browser at WormBase — has reached an end-of-life support status. Accordingly, we plan to retire GBrowse from the WormBase website at the end of 2022.
JBrowse, the successor to GBrowse, has been the primary genome browser at WormBase for many years. Recently, we released JBrowse2 which fills in the final remaining functionality gaps that existed with GBrowse.
GBrowse was a critical initial component of the Generic Model Organism Database project whose objective was to create modular software components for online genomic resources. Ahead of its time in many ways, GBrowse launched with a sophisticated plug-in mechanism that allowed it to keep pace with rapid advancements in genome sequencing, high-throughput experimental approaches and the resulting data deluge. Over the following decades, GBrowse saw numerous improvements, including the adoption of a more interactive interface, and the addition of many tools for data display, download, and analysis.
Do you have any questions or concerns about the retirement of GBrowse? Please let us know how we can help at help@wormbase.org.