Check out the new chapter of WormBook in GENETICS–
‘Developmental Control of the Cell Cycle: Insights from Caenorhabditis elegans‘ by Edward T. Kipreos and Sander van den Heuvel.
Gene Ontology Consortium turns 20
The Gene Ontology (GO) resource turns 20! Check out the latest paper describing this resource. WormBase uses GO to describe the molecular function, cellular localization and the biological processes that a gene is involved in. These annotations are displayed in the Gene Ontology widget on all gene pages in WormBase. The ontology structure including the number of genes annotated to each term can be viewed via tools such as the Ontology Browser. GO Enrichment Analysis can be performed using tools on the GO website. Data files (known as gene association files) of all the GO annotations in the latest WormBase release (note that these are ahead of the live website) across the genome for C. elegans and several other nematode species can be found here on the WormBase FTP site.
Paper of Interest: Identification of functional long non-coding RNAs in C. elegans.
This paper predicts 143 new multi-exonic lncRNA loci in C. elegans, along with ~3,000 possible new single-exon lncRNA loci.
Biocurator position open at WormBase
A biocurator position is open at WormBase. If you are interested and for further details please contact Paul Sternberg at [email protected]
Integrated model organism data at the Alliance of Genome Resources
It is now possible to view integrated data from six different Model Organism Databases (MODs) and the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium at the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance). One can view gene descriptions, disease model data, orthology data, gene expression data and much more for the six major model organisms (yeast, worm, fly, zebrafish, mouse, rat) as well as human data on gene pages at the Alliance. You can search by gene, disease or a GO term and be taken to a page where you will find integrated views of data relevant to all of the above mentioned organisms. For example, searching by a human disease name at the Alliance will take you to a disease page where you can find data related to disease models from the six organisms. Similar integrated views are also available for orthology data for any given gene on a gene page. The Alliance is a work in progress and will host even more data in the days to come. Check it out!