Register for the GSA hosted talk – “Mining model organism data in the Alliance of Genome Resources Portal” by Paul Sternberg (Caltech) and Monte Westerfield (University of Oregon).
WormBase is hiring at OICR: Software Developer 1
WormBase is hiring a Software Developer 1 to be located at the Ontario Institute for Research in vibrant downtown Toronto!
Join a small and flexible team pushing the limits of a ground breaking online resource that supports a global biomedical research community. In addition, you’ll have the chance to work on the Alliance of Genome Resources — a new project building the next generation of Model Organism Databases from the ground up! If things like killer UI/UX, AWS everything, and coding all in an Agile environment makes your heart race, consider submitting your resume!
Read the full job description and apply here.
WormBoard Election
Dear Lab Heads,
Please forward this email to everyone in your lab!
Election of WormBoard members is occurring this year as described here: https://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/WormBoard
Please go to this website: https://forms.gle/BLGz9mhTmtxLD1vW6 and follow instructions to cast your ballot for the indicated representative slots.
Each member of the worm community may cast one vote.
Please forward this message to everyone in your group.
Voting will close June 7 2021.
Best wishes,
Jane Hubbard (for the election committee)
Introducing Wormicloud, a text summarization tool
We are happy to introduce Wormicloud, a new tool that summarizes scientific articles in a graphical way through word clouds. This tool is aimed at facilitating the discovery of new experimental results not yet curated by model organism databases and is designed for both researchers and biocurators. Wormicloud is customized for the Caenorhabditis elegans literature and provides several advantages over existing solutions, including being able to perform full-text searches through Textpresso, which provides more accurate results than other existing literature search engines.
Wormicloud is integrated through direct links from gene interaction pages in WormBase. Additionally, it allows analysis on the gene sets obtained from literature searches with other WormBase tools such as SimpleMine and Gene Set Enrichment. URL: https://wormicloud.textpressolab.com.
You can also read the paper that describes Wormicloud.
WormBase webinar series: latest webinar available for viewing
The recording of the WormBase webinar “Parasite Biomart” is now available for viewing. Please check out this page for the relevant links to past and coming webinars as well as for webinar registration.