As you know WormBase is harmonizing, transitioning and displaying data at the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance). Check out the latest version of the Alliance (7.5.0) for data related to your favorite model organism and other ones! Don’t forget to look at the release notes which explain the details of this release. Please note that all WormBase data is not yet available at the Alliance, we thank you for your patience and understanding during the transition period.
Change in gene summaries for WS294
A gene summary is a brief description of the key functional aspects of a gene and appears in the “Overview” widget of every gene page in WormBase. Recently we changed the rules for inclusion of data such as large scale expression cluster data and protein domain data in gene summaries. When functional data as represented by Gene Ontology (GO) process, function or cellular component annotations are available for a gene, these are used to generate a gene summary. When no GO annotations are available for a gene, then functional data from the orthologous human gene is included in the gene summary. Further, if no tissue or cellular expression is available for the gene, expression cluster and protein domain data are included in the gene summary. Please see the microPublication that describes these updates to the gene summaries for C. elegans and other nematodes in the WS294 release of WormBase.
New Alliance version recently released
Check out the new release (version 7.4.0) of the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance). A notable feature of this release is that it includes ~2.5 million variants of clinical significance from ClinVar! To learn more about this release see the Release Notes.
WormBase WS293 released with balancers now available in SimpleMine
The WormBase website has been updated to the WS293 release (check out the release notes for details). This release features the addition of balancers to SimpleMine! Now you can find balancers and their reference strains for a list of C. elegans genes under the “Genetics, Interactions and Phenotypes” menu.
Check out the new Alliance release!
The new 7.1.0 version of the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance) was recently released. You can find harmonized data related to your favorite model organism together with other model organism data. Find details about this release here. We’d love to hear from you, so send us your comments and suggestions.