Leonid Kruglyak (HHMI/University of California, Los Angeles) has been awarded the 2016 Edward Novitski Prize for his extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in the solution of significant problems in genetics research. Read more here.
Please cite WormBase in your publications!
If you have used WormBase in the planning, design, execution, analysis, or reporting of research, please cite WormBase in your publications, preferably please cite which version/release of WormBase you used. See details on how to cite WormBase.
Need to order a clone or plasmid?
Are you looking for a clone or plasmid? Please note that WormBase does not house or distribute reagents but maintains a reagents page with links to the primary resources that generate and/or distribute reagents. Visit the reagents page to learn about resources that distribute clones, plasmids, RNA libraries, etc. This page can also be accessed from a drop-down from the ‘Resources’ section on the menu bar at the top of the WormBase home page.
Creating Hi-Res Screenshots in JBrowse
While the new genome browser (JBrowse) implemented at WormBase has several advantages, like faster browsing and a faceted track selector, it does lack a few features from the venerable GBrowse instance that has been at WormBase for many years. While we and the JBrowse developers are working on addressing those minor shortcomings, this article is about how to circumvent one of those issues now.
JBrowse lacks the ability to make a high resolution image like GBrowse. While taking a screenshot can sometimes result in an acceptable image (for example, Macs with a retina display work pretty well), the result is not always suitable for publication or putting on a poster. The method described here still does not allow for making an SVG image, but it does allow for higher quality PNG images than just taking a screenshot and also allows for the creation of a PDF document with the image in it. Unfortunately, this method requires downloading a tool where we must edit one of the source files and then execute it on the command line. While this is a little bit of a hassle, once it is set up, creating screenshots is quite easy.
Please follow nomenclature guidelines for engineered alleles and constructs
New methods for genome engineering (TALENs, CRISPR-Cas9, etc.) are increasingly being applied to C. elegans. Please remember to use nomenclature guidelines when naming these engineered alleles or constructs. Refer to the guidelines in the ‘Genome Engineering’ widget here.