Link to a
C. briggsae genetics website maintained by Bhagwati Gupta
has been put into the Links section on the front page.

To celebrate the award of the 2002 Nobel Prize to S. Brenner,
R. Horvitz and J. Sulston, for their discoveries made using the
nematode C. elegans, a symposium
will be held in Cambridge, England.

The whole genome RNAi clone library described in Kamath et al.
(2003) is now available from “MRC
Geneservice”.

Textpresso, a new search
engine for the full text of C. elegans papers is now
available. Individual sentences of over 1800 papers and 9000 abstracts
are now searchable using keywords and term categories.

The Ensembl project has published a new gene build
for C. briggsae. The number of genes is about half the size of the canonical
set because of Ensembl’s conservative use of existing proteins to
confirm genes, but these models are thought to be highly reliable.