The C.elegans RNAi library has been extended with 3,507 new supplementary bacterial clones and now targets around 87% of currently annotated C.elegans genes. Purchase the complete set of all clones or individual chromosome sets (I, II, III, IV, V and X) which include the pre-existing and new supplemental strains. The complete supplementary sets of RNAi clones and individual chromosome suplementary sets (I, II, III, IV, V and X) are also available to order for those who have previously purchased the pre-existing library.
Submission Deadline for WS238
With the International Worm Meeting 2013 coming up soon, I would like to remind you that the submission for the WS238 release of WormBase will be at the end of April. If you have a large or complex dataset, please tell us well ahead of time, to allow for processing of the data.
While WS238 will most likely not be live during the meetings, it will be, soon after.
Abstract submission for the 19th International C. elegans meeting now open
Abstract submission for the 19th International C. elegans meeting is now available.
New gene expression data
Interested in seeing the expression profile of your favorite gene during development? When you are on the gene page of interest, select the expression widget to open it, and click on the object whose description begins with ‘Developmental gene expression time-course’. On the graph page, clicking on the graphs will result in larger images. We have recently incorporated graphs for over 19,000 genes from the study published in Developmental Cell (Levin et al., 2012). Check out tbx-34 as an example.
Loa loa on WormBase
This release (WS235) includes the genome of the “eye worm” Loa loa, one of the causative agents of filariasis.
Genome assembly and annotation were performed by the Filarial worms Sequencing Project of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT (http://www.broadinstitute.org/).