The genetic map of C. elegans has changed very little in the past
three years, in terms of recombinational map distances and marker gene
locations. It is therefore being frozen, from WS232 onward.
In the future, new genetic loci, deficiencies and duplications will continue to be added to the genetic map, but these will simply be interpolated into the existing map.
Million Mutation project provides search for genes of interest
The Million Mutation Project now has putative loss-of-function mutations in 6,774 genes from their sequencing of 2,000 mutagenized strains! You can search your favorite gene at the Million Mutation Project site. Strains are available at the CGC. Much of this dataset is already available in WormBase on both the Genome Browser (via the Million Mutation Project track) and as individual Variation Summaries. The remaining data will be fully integrated into WormBase release W233.
Caenorhabditis sp.11 news
based on first results from the N-genome analysis group, work has been started by Pat Minx (WashU St.Louis) and Erich Schwarz (CalTech) to come up with an improved assembly.
New release of WormBase: WS231
WormBase has been updated to the WS231 release of the database. Read the release notes or visit the FTP site for bulk downloads. We’ve fixed a number of bugs identified after the launch of the new site. You can post feature requests or bug reports via this online form.
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora
The data of the latest INSDC submission of the H.bacteriophora annotation project has been added to WormBase.
It is available as flatfiles to download from ftp://ftp.wormbase.org , on GBrowse and as connections to ortholog nematode genes.