Dr. Ralph Sommer (Max-Planck Institute for Biology, Tuebingen, Germany) will be in charge of approving and assigning names to P. pacificus genes. Please write directly to Dr. Sommer to make a formal request for P. pacificus gene name/s. A huge thank you to Dr. Sommer for taking on this responsibility!
ACKnowledge Community Curation Project – Help WormBase!
The ACKnowledge Community Curation Project is an AI-assisted community curation project in which authors of C. elegans papers can help alert WormBase curators to the data in their papers. Alerting WormBase curators helps get your data curated faster! If you’ve published a paper recently, be on the lookout for an email from the ACKnowledge project to curate your paper. You can also find your papers processed by ACKnowledge in the Author Curation Portal . If you have any questions about ACKnowledge or need help with your submission, please contact us.
WormBook in GENETICS
The last three chapters of WormBook in GENETICS were published earlier this year. I want to express my gratitude to all of the authors, section editors and advisory board members for bringing this project to fruition, and to the Genetics Society of America and the editors and staff of GENETICS for all of their support. I encourage everyone to take a look at the wonderful compendium of knowledge of the biology, genetics, genomics, and evolutionary biology of C. elegans resulting from this community effort. Like the classic Cold Spring Harbor C. elegans books and the original WormBook published under the WormBase aegis at Caltech, I am confident that this collection of reviews will remain valuable for decades to come, for trainees and experienced C. elegans biologists alike.
Even though WormBook is officially completed, the Editor in Chief of GENETICS, Howard Lipshitz, has agreed that future reviews on C. elegans will be linked to the WormBook tab on the GENETICS/OUP website. He also has appointed me as a Consulting Editor for the journal to provide advice to the Senior Editors of the ‘Perspectives & Reviews’ section on ways to add new reviews of interest to the worm community.
Best regards,
Iva Greenwald
Upcoming Alliance webinar – model organisms and rare diseases
Guest Presenter, Damian Smedley, Professor of Computational Genomics, Queen Mary University of London, will speak on ‘Use of model organism data in rare disease diagnostics and disease-gene association discovery’. If you’re interested in attending this webinar, please register to get the Zoom link by Wednesday September 24 at midnight EDT https://tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt. If you have already signed up, you don’t need to sign up again.
Remember to check the Alliance event calendar for the webinar schedule.
New chapter of WormBook, GENETICS
Check out the new chapter on “Chromatin and epigenetics in aging biology” by Eric Greer, Siu Lee and Veena Prahlad.