Announcement of WormBook in GENETICS

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WormBook is excited to announce that we have partnered with The Genetics Society of America to publish new WormBook content in GENETICS. GENETICS will publish about 50 new chapters over the course of four years. Existing chapters will remain available at http://www.wormbook.org/, and several new and updated chapters will appear there over the next six months. Letters describing these changes from Marty Chalfie and Iva Greenwald, who succeeds Marty as WormBook Editor-in-Chief, can be found in the blog posts below.

–Jane Mendel

Announcement of WormBook in GENETICS

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From Martin Chalfie:

Dear Members of the C. elegans Community,

A little over twelve years ago several of us starting talking about the possibility of having an online review of C. elegans that would replace the outdated Cold Spring Harbor monographs (The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and C.elegans II).  These discussions led to the establishment of WormBook, and I became its Editor-in-Chief.  Now after shepherding over 150 articles into WormBook and reestablishing The Worm Breeders Gazette I feel that we have created a wonderful resource.  But I have found that my time has been taken up by so many other commitments recently that I no longer feel able to put the effort into WormBook that I believe it deserves (also 12 years is more than enough time for one person to be in charge).

For these reasons I have decided to step down as Editor-in-Chief.  Fortunately, Iva Greenwald, who has served as a spectacular section editor, has agreed to become the next Editor-in-Chief and oversee the changes that are necessary to keep WormBook a strong and essential resource for our community.  I know she will do a terrific job.

Before ending this letter, I want to thank the people that really made WormBook possible.  These people include Paul Sternberg as the publisher of WormBook through WormBase, whose support and enthusiasm have been essential; our two hard working editors Lisa Gerard and Jane Mendel, who made WormBook a reality; Oliver Hobert, who officially is the editor of WormMethods, but has really served as an assistant Editor-in-Chief; Lincoln Stein, Tristan Fiedler, Todd Harris, and Qinghua (Daniel) Wang, who brought WormBook to life on the web; and you the members of the Editorial Board [for the Gazette: and the past and present members of the Editorial Board], whose involvement and support made WormBook the model for all the other organism “Books.”  We have made something wonderful, and I thank all of you for showing once again the strength and dedication of the C. elegans community.

All the best,

Marty

Announcement of WormBook in GENETICS

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From: Iva Greenwald, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Columbia University.

As Marty Chalfie announced in his WBG article, I have succeeded him as Editor-in-Chief of WormBook. I want to express my gratitude to everyone that Marty mentioned in his article who made WormBook possible and I want to add, on behalf of the entire worm community, our thanks to Marty for his vision and leadership in making WormBook an invaluable resource for all of us.

My first task as Editor-in-Chief designate was to follow up on Marty’s initiative to partner with the Genetics Society of America to publish new content for WormBook in GENETICS.

I am pleased to announce that this partnership has now been established. GENETICS will publish about 50 new reviews spanning the breadth of C. elegans research over the course of about four years.  The chapters will be comprehensive summaries that will introduce novices to the key tenets and methodologies of the field and also serve as authoritative references for experts. The GENETICS content will complement and extend existing WormBook chapters that will be kept available at Caltech via WormBase.

I want to thank Paul Sternberg and Oliver Hobert for many contributions to the discussions with GENETICS and for continuing to serve in an advisory capacity as we proceed. I also want to thank Marty for initiating the relationship and for sharing his unique perspective on going forward.

Because of reductions in funds to WormBase, additional new chapters or “updates” will not be solicited for the Caltech site, although over the course of the next year you will see several new/updated chapters published there that had been previously commissioned.  I am indebted to Jane Mendel, the current Section Editors, and the production team at Caltech for continuing to oversee these ongoing chapters to completion.

I am especially grateful to the many colleagues who advised in the planning of WormBook in GENETICS or are serving as Section Editors to make it happen.  We look forward to the contributions of many more colleagues as authors and reviewers, and trust that together, we will all ensure that this project both represents and serves the needs of our entire community.

Here is the masthead.

Editor-in–Chief:  Iva Greenwald

Advisory Board:  Monica Driscoll, Pierre Gonczy, Oliver Hobert, Tim Schedl, Paul Sternberg.

Sections and Section Editors:

1. Gene and Genome Regulatory Mechanisms: John Kim and Susan Strome

2. Cell Fate, Signaling and Development: Meera Sundaram and Geraldine Seydoux

3. Metabolism, Physiology and Aging: Monica Driscoll and Adam Antebi

4. Cell and Organelle Biology: Michel Labouesse and Barth Grant

5. Neurobiology and Behavior: Piali Sengupta and Yuichi Iino

6. Evolution and Ecology: Marie-Anne Felix and Asher Cutter

7. WormMethods:  Oliver Hobert and Hannes Bülow

November 2015: 18 new labs have joined the community!

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18 new labs registered with WormBase and the CGC up to and including October 2015. Please join us in welcoming these labs to the community!

PI Lab Code Allele Code Institute Website
Daniel C. Williams CCU myr Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC
Dengke K Ma DMS dma UCSF, San Francisco, CA lab website
Sevinc Ercan ERC ers New York University, NY lab website
Kevin M Esvelt KME etc Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA lab website
Lesley MacNeil LMN ltm McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada lab website
Levi Morran LTM mgm Emory University, Atlanta, GA lab website
Marcelo A Mori MAM mor Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil lab website
Matthew R. Marcello MRM mrm Pace University, New York, NY
Shinsuke Niwa OTL jpn Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Rob Fairman RPF hca Haverford College, Haverford, PA lab website
Sandy D Westerheide SDW asd University of South Florida, Tampa, FL lab website
Matthew D Nelson SJU stj Saint Joseph’s University, PA lab website
Hari Shroff SLS aot National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Bethesda, MD lab website
Maria Agapito SPU maa St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ
Kota Mizumoto UJ miz The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Tokumitsu Wakabayashi WKB iwt Iwate University, Iwate, Japan
Ke-Qin Zhang YAN ylw Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Yan Zou ZOU yan ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

WormMine unavailable until Friday, October 30th

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Due to scheduled service windows and final preparations of an update, the old instance of WormMine will be unavailable for approximately five days.

The WormMine service will return Friday, October 30th along with the WS250 release of WormBase. In the interim, please feel free to contact us should you have specific data mining queries.