WormBase has been updated to the WS228 release of the database.
Publication Spotlight: A phylogeny and molecular barcodes for Caenorhabditis, with numerous new species from rotting fruit
I would like to draw your attention to f Karin Kiontke et al.’s new paper in BMC Evolutionary Biology on the phylogeny and molecular barcodes for Caenorhabditis. The authors describe quite a few new strains and species, which should be of interest to anyone interested in phylogeny of nematodes.
But they couldn’t find any sister species to C.elegans, so that challenge is still on.
Ascaris suum genome in WormBase
The newly published Ascaris suum genome (Aaron Jex, et al, Nature 2011 Oct 2) is available at WormBase including it’s geneset. The data has been added to GBrowse/BLAT/BLAST and can be downloaded as FASTA/GFF3 files from the WormBase FTP server.
Ascaris suum is a model for other parasitic Ascaris, as well as causing itself economic damage to pig farming. In addition it is known to be resistant to a large number of antihelminth chemicals.
2012 C. elegans Development, Cell Biology, and Gene Expression Meeting
The next C. elegans Development, Cell Biology, and Gene Expression Meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 7-10. Keynote Speakers will include Julie Ahringer, David Greenstein, Ken Kemphues, Craig Mello, Karen Oegema, Shai Shaham and Anne Villeneuve. Organizers: E. Jane Hubbard, Jeremy Nance, Martha Soto.
http://www.union.wisc.edu/celegans/index2012.html
Partial service interruption, Saturday 3 Dec 2011
To accomodate a storage upgrade, select elements of the WormBase website will be unavailable on Saturday, 3 December 2011 from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM (ET; UTC -5). During this time, the following services will be unavailable: the Genome Browser; BLAST, BLAT, ePCR searches; the WormBase wiki; the WormBase blog; and the Worm Community Forum. We apologize for any difficulties this interruption may cause.