Have a question, a suggestion, or want to tell us about missing data? Use the red button, ‘Questions, Feedback & Help’, that appears on the bottom of every WormBase page, and send your feedback from the page your on! Questions, comments, etc., submitted by Users, are assigned a ticket number and appear on our issue tracker, at the Github web-hosting service for projects, which you can view and follow too. We will also be present at the upcoming C. elegans International Meeting at UCLA, Los Angeles, at the end of the month. Look for the WormBase booth, talks, posters, workshops and other WormBase activities. We hope to see you there!
WS237 released
It has become necessary for us to modify the structure of the “releases” branch FTP site. The reason for this is that we are now required to represent potentially multiple alternative reference genomes sequences for a single nematode species (e.g. Ascaris suum).
In many cases, these references will originate from different strains, but that may not always be the case. We have therefore chosen to differentiate between alternative reference genomes for a single species by including the NCBI BioProject accession (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject) in the directory path and files names. Alternative genome sequencing efforts for the same species will each be assigned their own unique NCBI BioProject accession.
Check Out The New WormBase YouTube Channel!
Search for either ‘WormBase’ or ‘WormBase Outreach’ in YouTube and check out our new WormBase channel, in order to view video tutorials about various types of data. These videos address commonly asked questions, like how to find a particular type of data in WormBase, or how to query WormMart for a data set. We hope to add many more tutorials in the coming days. Happy Viewing!
Enhanced RNAi library available from Source BioScience
The C.elegans RNAi library has been extended with 3,507 new supplementary bacterial clones and now targets around 87% of currently annotated C.elegans genes. Purchase the complete set of all clones or individual chromosome sets (I, II, III, IV, V and X) which include the pre-existing and new supplemental strains. The complete supplementary sets of RNAi clones and individual chromosome suplementary sets (I, II, III, IV, V and X) are also available to order for those who have previously purchased the pre-existing library.
Submission Deadline for WS238
With the International Worm Meeting 2013 coming up soon, I would like to remind you that the submission for the WS238 release of WormBase will be at the end of April. If you have a large or complex dataset, please tell us well ahead of time, to allow for processing of the data.
While WS238 will most likely not be live during the meetings, it will be, soon after.