WormBase has been updated to the WS170 release of the database. WS170 is the 8th “frozen” release of WormBase. In about 3 weeks time, WS170 will be available in perpetuity at ws170.wormbase.org. We encourage all users conducting large-scale data mining and analyses to use this most current frozen release in their studies.
GSA Model Organism Meeting: Jan 2008
The Genetics Society of America will host the “Genetic Analysis: Model Organisms to Human Biology” meeting, to be held January 5-8, 2008 at the Town And Country Hotel in San Diego, CA. Additional details about the meeting are available on the GSA’s website.
January additions to WormBook
This month, WormBook launched its Post-embryonic development section with “Gene expression changes associated with aging in C. elegans”. This is the first of many chapters related to the topics of aging and development that will be appearing in this section. Additionally, “The C. elegans pharynx: a model for organogenesis” has been added to the Developmental control section and “Acetylcholine” has just been published in the Neurobiology and behavior section.
In order to find out about new additions to WormBook, please sign up at www.wormbook.org/announce.html or access the newly-available WormBook RSS feed.
Preliminary assembly of Caenorhabditis sp. 4 now available
A preliminary, WGS, draft assembly of Caenorhabditis sp. 4 (PB2801) is available for download on the Washington University’s Genome Sequence Center ftp site and for searching on their BLAST server. The coverage is ~9x in plasmids and fosmid ends. Primer-directed, sequence improvement of the draft assembly is in progress.
Service interruption, 25 January 2007
WormBase will be unavailable this evening for approximately 30 minutes beginning at 6 PM EST (GMT -5) for hardware maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience. During this period, users may wish to try one of our mirror installations listed at the bottom of this page.