The third WormBase mirror site — and our first in Asia — is now
available at wormbase.ccbb.re.kr. The mirror
is hosted at the Center for
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics in Daejeon, South Korea
and maintained by Chang Hyuk Kwon. This site joins our two existing
mirrors at Caltech (Pasadena, CA
USA) and IMBB (Crete,
Greece). We have also established a robust mechanism for keeping
these sites up-to-date. If you are interested in hosting a mirror in
your lab or at your university, please contact Todd Harris ([email protected]).
New genome-wide RNAi screen on early embryogenesis is now available
The results from the systematic RNAi screen reported in Soennichsen et al., “Full genome RNAi profiling of early embryogenesis in C. elegans” are now available on the development site. There are links to movies and other relevant information at the PhenoBank. See WBRNAi00049552 for an example.
New caching mechanism in place
In order to improve performance, a new object-level caching mechanism
has been added to the site. In addition, most pages are cached making
subsequent requests for the same page substantially faster. Please
let us know of any difficulties you encounter.
New release of WormBase, WS140
WormBase has been updated to the WS140 release of the database. New
features include the introduction of a unified Variation class, which
consolidates all information on alleles and polymorphisms into a
single class. To support this class, the Locus and Allele/Variation displays have
been overhauled. WS140 will be a “frozen” release of the data and
software, permanently available at ws140.wormbase.org in three weeks.
WormBase literature search updated
A number of improvements have been made to the WormBase Literature
search engine in line with the new Textpresso build release. The
full text of over 1,000 new journal articles pertaining to worm
biology have been added to the database; four new search categories
are available from the drop down menus; minor improvements have been
made to the interface, including a new sort function.