The whole genome shotgun sequencing phase of C. remanei has
been completed and the ~1.43 million reads can be searched using BLAST.
Fosmid end reads are in progress to be followed by 2 rounds of
automated finishing, which should result in a high-quality draft
assembly by the end of the summer. C. japonica and
CB5161 are being backcrossed and checked for heterozygosity.
They are scheduled for whole genome shotgun sequencing in August and
December.
Midwest Meeting Registration is open
The meeting will take place at the University of Kansas June 11-13,
with an early registration deadline of May 21st. Information, online
registration and abstract submission are available.
East Coast Worm Meeting Registration
Online registration
for the East Coast Worm Meeting is now available. The meeting will
take place June 11th-13th at Yale University. The registration
deadline is May 21st.
New anatomy ontology browser
A new anatomy ontology browser is
now available for browsing and querying the anatomy ontology. For
example, view the ontology for the M1 motor neuron.
WormBase database server for data mining is up and running
A more powerful aceserver has been set up and is open for remote
access, via both command line and scripts. The port for the ACeDB
database is 2005 (host is aceserver.cshl.org). The method for GFF
databases remote access will be announced shortly.