Announcing GENIE: Group of Elegans New Investigators in Europe

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We are establishing a European support network for junior C. elegans group leaders. GENIE aims to: (1) promote knowledge and people exchange across European young worm groups; (2) enhance Europe-wide collaborations and short-term mobility; (3) raise the profile and exposure of young European worm groups. To realise these aims we will create a network website and mailing list, organise an annual meeting and make a variety of small travel, exchange and seminar grants available.

BUT first we need to hear from YOU (to get feedback/ideas on what you would like to see on the final website and to coordinate funding applications).

If you are a junior nematode group leader in Europe please visit our temporary signup page at www.worm-genie.eu to leave your details and you will hear from us in the very near future.

Thanks!
GENIE Coordinators: Sophie Jarriault ([email protected]), Peter Meister ([email protected]) and Richard Poole ([email protected])

Contacting WormBase

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Have a question, a suggestion, or want to tell us about missing data?  Use the red button, ‘Questions, Feedback & Help’, that appears on the bottom of every WormBase page, and send your feedback from the page your on!  Questions, comments, etc., submitted by Users, are assigned a ticket number and appear on our issue tracker, at the Github web-hosting service for projects, which you can view and follow too.   We will also be present at the upcoming C. elegans International Meeting at UCLA, Los Angeles, at the end of the month.  Look for the WormBase booth, talks, posters, workshops and other WormBase activities. We hope to see you there!

WS237 released

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It has become necessary for us to modify the structure of the “releases” branch FTP site. The reason for this is that we are now required to represent potentially multiple alternative reference genomes sequences for a single nematode species (e.g. Ascaris suum).

In many cases, these references will originate from different strains, but that may not always be the case. We have therefore chosen to differentiate between alternative reference genomes for a single species by including the NCBI BioProject accession (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject) in the directory path and files names. Alternative genome sequencing efforts for the same species will each be assigned their own unique NCBI BioProject accession.