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.
Ensembl gene predictions for C. briggsae available
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.
New face for WormBase
The new banner and navigation bar designed for WormBase by Thomas
Boulin has now been installed. Let us know what you think.
New RNAi data sets available
The results from the systematic RNAi screen reported in Kamath et
al. Nature 421:231-237 (2003) are now available for browsing and bulk
download. The results from the RNAi screen of ovary-enriched
genes reported in Piano et
al. Current Biology (2002) are available for browsing from the
RNAi search page.
C. elegans Sequence Consortium wants your feedback
The Sequencing Consortium wants to know of any potential problems in
the now contiguous six C. elegans chromosomes, for example, any
evidence of deleted YACs, etc.. Please inform Alan Coulson
([email protected]).