You may have noticed that many browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, etc., no longer support the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to access files on remote servers. However, programs such as FileZilla offer free support of FTP. Please stay tuned as we are currently exploring solutions to make access to the WormBase FTP site easier for our users.
IWM 2021 WormBase workshop available
The IWM 2021 WormBase workshop is now available to view here, on our YouTube channel.
WormBoard Election
Dear Lab Heads,
Please forward this email to everyone in your lab!
Election of WormBoard members is occurring this year as described here: https://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/WormBoard
Please go to this website:Â https://forms.gle/BLGz9mhTmtxLD1vW6Â and follow instructions to cast your ballot for the indicated representative slots.Â
Each member of the worm community may cast one vote.
Please forward this message to everyone in your group.
Voting will close June 7 2021.
Best wishes,
Jane Hubbard (for the election committee)
Introducing Wormicloud, a text summarization tool

We are happy to introduce Wormicloud, a new tool that summarizes scientific articles in a graphical way through word clouds. This tool is aimed at facilitating the discovery of new experimental results not yet curated by model organism databases and is designed for both researchers and biocurators. Wormicloud is customized for the Caenorhabditis elegans literature and provides several advantages over existing solutions, including being able to perform full-text searches through Textpresso, which provides more accurate results than other existing literature search engines.
Wormicloud is integrated through direct links from gene interaction pages in WormBase. Additionally, it allows analysis on the gene sets obtained from literature searches with other WormBase tools such as SimpleMine and Gene Set Enrichment. URL: https://wormicloud.textpressolab.com.
You can also read the paper that describes Wormicloud.

23rd International C. elegans meeting abstracts due March 25th
Note that abstracts for the C. elegans IWM are due by Thursday, March 25th.