The display of the C. elegans physical (cosmid fingerprint) map
is now easier to get to. You can access it from the “Physically
Mapped Clones” link of the gene page, or directly by searching for a
cosmid name and going to the clone page.
Allele Information Unified
WormBase now has unified its display
of SNPs, transposon insertions and other alleles, and updated the
allele detail
page to provide molecular information about the mutation.
Public Access ACeDB Server Back Online
For access via AcePerl,
there is now a public acess WormBase server at host
aceserver.cshl.org, port 2005. See Linking & Mining WormBase for
more details.
OST Alignments are now Online
WormBase now displays the nucleotide
alignments of ORFeome v1.1 reads (“OSTs”) to the genome. This
data provides EST-like information about transcript splicing patterns.
Worms Survive Space Shuttle Crash
The Washington Post reports that the C. elegans
worms sent into space on the space shuttle Columbia for a synthetic
nutrient experiment survived the shuttle’s fiery reentry, and were
recovered, reproducing happily, in their sealed containment vessels.