Details for the 2012 C. elegans Neurobiology meeting are below:
When: 14-17 June 2012
Where: EMBL Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg, Germany.
Speakers:
Joy Alcedo
Leon Avery
Alexander Gottschalk
Lindy Holden-Dye
Josh Kaplan
Ikue Mori
Stephen Nurrish
Piali Sengupta
Kang Shen
Organisers:
Jean-Louis Bessereau
Gert Jansen
William Schafer
The website and a poster will soon be released.
SPELL (Serial Pattern of Expression Levels Locator) is a display and clustering tool for large scale gene expression data, including microarray, tiling array and RNAseq. The software is developed and maintained by Matt Hibbs from the Jackson Laboratory. SPELL can now search for worm microarray and RNAseq data.
The current functionalities of SPELL include:
1. Checking expression levels of individual genes in each dataset
2. Searching for other genes with similar expression profiles
3. Identifying biological processes related to the query genes
4. Users can download individual datasets
SPELL users can enter a list of genes that are expected to have similar expression profiles. SPELL checks the correlation of these genes in each dataset. The dataset with the highest correlation will get the most weight. If users provide only one gene, all datasets will get the same weight. Based on the weight of each dataset, SPELL will identify other genes with similar expression profiles, and display biological process gene ontology terms that are enriched in the results. SPELL provides gene-centric microarray and RNAseq data that are mapped to the current WormBase release. WormSPELL226, released on July 29th, contains 3 RNAseq datasets and 112 microarray datasets, including 1726 microarray experiments and 58 RNAseq analyses.
“Understanding DNA replication and Nucleosome structure”. This online webinar will introduce participants to the data obtained in studies of replication and nucleosome structure in D.melanogaster, and describe how to visualize and download these data from the modENCODE web site. Space is limited so advance registration is necessary. Please email [email protected] to reserve your spot. More details and the schedule are available at modENCODE.
A live WormBase helpdesk will be present at the International C.elegans Meeting 2011 during the poster sessions. This is your opportunity to get hold of our curators, web team, text miners and data wranglers in person and ask them about anything.
If you can’t make it to the IWM2011 feel free to use the usual [email protected] for feedback and questions.