If you would like to register a new lab and/or receive strain and allele designations please consult the WormBase documentation page here. This page also describes the nomenclature that WormBase requires and uses to describe genes, alleles, strains, gene knockouts, modifiers (suppressors, revertants and enhancers), and chromosomal aberrations (duplications, deficiencies, inversions and translocations) .
Check out the experimental evolution chapter in WormBook!
Read about the the goals and major foci of experimental evolution with C. elegans and related species, in the chapter ‘Experimental Evolution with Caenorhabditis Nematodes‘ in WormBook GENETICS, by Henrique Teotónio et al.
Phenotype micropublication submission form now live!
Do you have phenotype results that you want to micropublish? A beta version of the phenotype submission form is now available online on micropublication.org. Try it out, submit your data here! Questions? Reach out to us at [email protected].
WormBase is updated to WS260
The 260th version of WormBase has been released! The release notes that are published with each new release gives you various statistics about the data in the current release as well as providing a quick peak at the breath and depth of the data in WormBase. It also lists all the data files available for download at our FTP site. Check all of these out and let us know if you have any suggestions or questions!
Staying up-to-date with new features and data at WormBase
WormBase offers a number of ways to stay up-to-date with new features and datasets. Here are a few.
1. The WormBase Blog
Right here — we’ll post everything on the blog. Entries of general interest will also cross-post to the main WormBase site. You can also subscribe to receive notice of all new posts to the blog by email.
2. Twitter
WormBase is on Twitter, at, erm, @wormbase. On Twitter we post news items, service status updates, answer queries, and occasionally live blog meetings.
3. The [email protected] email list
If you prefer email, subscribe to the very low traffic WormBase Announce Mailing list. Here, we post notifications of new release and announcements of general interest to the community.