WormBase Release WS261

We would like to announce the availability of the WormBase WS261 release on the WormBase website and FTP. Some of the highlights of this release are: C.briggsae curation Manual curation of C. briggsae has continued, concentrating on genes with low levels of curation. curation example for dicistronic loci The WormBook chapter “Operon and non-operon gene clusters in the C. elegans genome” describes SL1-type operons and dicistronic mRNA loci. These look like a single gene containing two isoforms with little or no overlap. During the examination of the C. briggsae gene structures about 30 novel, conserved examples of these loci were found. C.brenneri curation As result of a cooperation on the GeMoMa tool with the Julius Kuehn-Institute, Quedlinburg (Germany), loci with missing annotation have been identified and curation of these has started.   PantherDB Crossreferences and orthology data from PantherDB has been updated to the PantherDB release 12.0 .   Gene Ontology Automatically derived GO-terms from phenotypes have been curated and low confidence associations cleaned up. Forthcoming Data The Oscheius tipulae genome will be imported as non-core species in one of the next WormBase releases.  
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