The first international workshop dedicated to the study of evolution with Caenorhabditis species will be held for three days from 24 to 26 of May 2006, at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia in Oeiras, 20km from Lisbon, in Portugal. Reception will take place on the 23rd. The deadline for registration is 15th January 2005. Read more about the workshop and how to register.
New release of WormBase: WS149
WormBase has been updated to the WS149 release of the database. This release includes over 20,000 new oligo set microarray probes from Agilent and updated blast databases of human and Drosophila.
Cell-Specific microarray data now available in WormBase
A profile of embryonic unc-4::GFP motor neurons generated using MAPCeL (MicroArray Profiling C. elegans cells) from Fox, et.al, 2005 is now available in WormBase. Gene lists for both enriched and expressed genes can be accessed from Expression Cluster and Gene report pages (e.g. alt-1).
Possible WormBase Access Interruption
Due to a dispute between two major ISPs, the WormBase web site may not be accessible to certain Internet users until the dispute is resolved. We apologize for what we hope will be a very temporary inconvenience. For more information, please see this article on Slashdot.
New WormBook chapters available
Chapters recently added to WormBook include: Genetic enhancers, Genomic classification of protein-coding gene families, Alternative splicing in C. elegans, C. elegans microRNAs, Cell cycle regulation, Mitochondrial genetics, Gastrulation in C. elegans. For a monthly email containing information about new additions to WormBook, please sign up at http://www.wormbook.org/announce.html.