Check out the latest release (5.1.0) of the Alliance of Genome Resources for your favorite worm gene and get great comparative data across the major model organisms. A notable addition to this Alliance release are the member pages which link to organism or GO related data within the Alliance and to the model organism database or the GO Consortium. These pages can be accessed from the “Members” menu at the top of Alliance web pages. See the complete release notes for the 5.1.0 release.
Take note! Author First Pass Version 3 now in production!
WormBase is excited to announce the release of a newly updated version of Author First Pass (AFP). Based on valuable feedback from our users, we’ve made several improvements, including:
- Acknowledge author contributions on WormBase Paper and Person pages
- Improved accuracy of entity extraction
- Simplified data entry and updated instructions for data submission
- Created a link to the ‘WormBase AFP Webinar‘ video
- Updated the FAQs
Further enhancements and details are available in the V3 Release Notes.
As always, thank you to the awesome C. elegans community for your participation and input; we look forward to seeing your future submissions!
New release of WormBase ParaSite
Release 16 of WormBase Parasite has gone live. Read about it here: https://wbparasite.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/announcing-wormbase-parasite-release-16/
SimpleMine Update: Biotype, GO term, RNAi clone and more
We have added new data fields to SimpleMine, a batch download tool for essential gene information. Users can now access biotype, GO term, and RNAi clones through this simple web interface.
We also added more information to previously existing data fields. All references, including books, reviews, meeting abstracts, and primary research articles, are now listed in the Reference field. For genetic map position, we display error rates of the genetic mapping data. In addition to all “live” gene objects, users can now search for pseudogene or “suppressed” gene objects.
Changes to the web interface include: improved performance, species-specific or mixed-species searches and a search button for all genes in one species. There are 32 data fields in SimpleMine, organized into five categories so that users can quickly select them.
Note that WormBase SimpleMine provides essential information for genes in nine nematode species. There is a prototype of the SimpleMine tool for the Alliance of Genome Resources with data related to human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, fly, yeast, and worm (C. elegans only): https://www.alliancegenome.org/prototypes
Introducing the Alliance Community Forum
Dear WormBase and Worm Community Forum Users —
As previously discussed, the Worm Community Forum is moving.
Today, along with the Alliance of Genome Resources, we are pleased to introduce a new online discussion forum, the Alliance Community Forum.
In keeping with the spirit of the Alliance of Genome Resources, we’ve chosen to organize topics by organism and not by Model Organism Database. Rest assured that it’s easy to only follow specific areas that you may be interested in. Worm related discussions, for example, can be found here, subdivided in a variety of topics. You can choose a variety of notifications for topics of interest.
The Alliance Community Forum represents the first place for discussions across six model organism communities — flies, mice, yeast, rats, worms, and zebrafish (from the participating MODs of FlyBase, MGI, SGD, RGD, WormBase, ZFIN, respectively).
We hope that this Forum provides an opportunity for stimulating discussions, finding new collaborations, raising awareness about techniques from other fields, as well as providing a convenient place for posting notes of interest to the broader community of biomedical researchers (meeting details, job postings, funding announcements, etc).
If you are an existing member of the Worm Community Forum
We have migrated most existing accounts. Please reclaim your account on the Alliance Community Forum by requesting a password reset on the new forum. You will be sent a link to reset your password. If you have trouble logging in, please contact todd@wormbase.org.
Note that due to a technical issue, if you created an account in the last several months, you will need to create a new account in the Alliance Community Forum.
If you are not an existing member of the Worm Community Forum
You can log in with a new account on the forum, or a Google or Github account if you so choose.
Preserving the Worm Community Forum history
We have migrated [b]most[/b] posts from the nearly 20 year history of the forum. Some posts could not be migrated, nor have posts created in the last few months. Feel free to recreate these topics in the new forum.
Interested in working as a moderator on the Alliance Community Forum?
Please contact todd@wormbase.org.
Migration Timeline
July 6, 2021: New registrations disabled on the Worm Community Forum.
July 9, 2021: The “Discussion” panel of the WormBase home page will start displaying entries from the Alliance Community Forum; posting on the Worm Community Forum will be disabled.
August 30, 2021: The Worm Community Forum will be retired.
Questions?
Please either post here, on the new forum, or email either the WormBase (help@wormbase.org) or the Alliance (help@alliancegenome.org) Help Desks.
Technical Details
The Alliance Community Forum is using Discourse, a widely used and full-featured online discussion platform.
User guide and FAQ on using Discourse