Good news for those of you using the C. elegans libraries held at Wellcome Sanger Institute – they have just restarted distribution of the C. elegans clone libraries they hold. The webpage is currently under development, so please email bioresource@sanger.ac.uk directly with your requests.
Service status update: WormBase tools back online
Several WormBase tools that were unavailable this morning (see blog post below) during server upgrades are now back online. Thank you for your patience.
Please note that some WormBase tools are down
Please note that because of server upgrades that we are doing the following WormBase tools are not available for use, including the Author First Pass form. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. The following tools are currently out of service:
SimpleMine Update: Biotype, GO term, RNAi clone and more
We have added new data fields to SimpleMine, a batch download tool for essential gene information. Users can now access biotype, GO term, and RNAi clones through this simple web interface.
We also added more information to previously existing data fields. All references, including books, reviews, meeting abstracts, and primary research articles, are now listed in the Reference field. For genetic map position, we display error rates of the genetic mapping data. In addition to all “live” gene objects, users can now search for pseudogene or “suppressed” gene objects.
Changes to the web interface include: improved performance, species-specific or mixed-species searches and a search button for all genes in one species. There are 32 data fields in SimpleMine, organized into five categories so that users can quickly select them.
Note that WormBase SimpleMine provides essential information for genes in nine nematode species. There is a prototype of the SimpleMine tool for the Alliance of Genome Resources with data related to human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, fly, yeast, and worm (C. elegans only): https://www.alliancegenome.org/prototypes
Introducing Wormicloud, a text summarization tool
We are happy to introduce Wormicloud, a new tool that summarizes scientific articles in a graphical way through word clouds. This tool is aimed at facilitating the discovery of new experimental results not yet curated by model organism databases and is designed for both researchers and biocurators. Wormicloud is customized for the Caenorhabditis elegans literature and provides several advantages over existing solutions, including being able to perform full-text searches through Textpresso, which provides more accurate results than other existing literature search engines.
Wormicloud is integrated through direct links from gene interaction pages in WormBase. Additionally, it allows analysis on the gene sets obtained from literature searches with other WormBase tools such as SimpleMine and Gene Set Enrichment. URL: https://wormicloud.textpressolab.com.
You can also read the paper that describes Wormicloud.
