Deadline for abstracts for the 21st International Worm Meeting is 30th March
Reminder: the abstract submission for the 21st International Worm meeting, to be held at UCLA in June 2017, closes on the 30th March.
http://genetics-gsa.org/celegans/2017/abstracts/ (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - March 24, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news Source Type: news
Looking for a genome assembly?
If you are looking for C. elegans genome assemblies go to this WormBase page and make sure the ‘Genome Assemblies’ widget in the right-hand side bar is chosen. Scroll down to the ‘Genome Assemblies’ widget. You can also navigate to the current genome assemblies for any species by opening the ‘Tools’ menu on the horizontal bar on the WormBase home page, so Tools->Under ‘General Search’->Browse by Species. Click on the species you want in the WormBase Core genomes table to navigate to the page with the genome assemblies widget (remember to have it chosen in the side b...
Source: WormBase - March 13, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: news genomes Source Type: news
‘The Genetics of Axon Guidance and Axon Regeneration’ in WormBook, GENETICS
Check out the chapter ‘The Genetics of Axon Guidance and Axon Regeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans‘ from WormBook in GENETICS, by Andrew D. Chisholm, Harald Hutter, Yishi Jin and William G. Wadsworth. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - February 9, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: community external website news Uncategorized wormbook Source Type: news
New chapter of WormBook in Genetics: Cell Biology of the Caenorhabditis elegans nucleus.
Check out the latest chapter of WormBook in Genetics, Cell Biology of the Caenorhabditis elegans Nucleus, by Orna Cohen-Fix and Peter Askjaer. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - January 12, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news wormbook Source Type: news
Neuroscience 2017 Symposia, Minisymposia, and Social Issues Roundtable submissions now open
The Neuroscience 2017 Symposia, Minisymposia, and Social Issues Roundtable submission form is open now through January 6. Encourage your colleagues to submit a proposal. The two-year speaker list applies here as well. The committee will review the proposals in January in preparation for the February 6-7 Program Committee Meeting. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - November 25, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: meetings news Source Type: news
Check out the latest chapter in WormBook in GENETICS!
Check out the latest chapter in WormBook in GENETICS–‘Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Approaches for Mutation Mapping and Identification in Caenorhabditis elegans‘ by Maria Doitsidou, Sophie Jarriault and Richard J. Poole. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 17, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news wormbook Source Type: news
Call for IWM 2017 Workshops … and Worm Videos
Website: The website for the C. elegans international meeting, 2017 is up.
Workshops: The deadline for proposing a workshop is 15 November 2016: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/celeganswkshp
WormShow: We regret to announce that Morris and Curtis have retired from doing the Worm Show. With the guidance of Ahna Skop we are planning a new format WormShow involving community submissions of videos or other performance art. More details will be available later on the meeting website but in the mean time please think about participating by producing a video!
–Marie-Anne Felix and Andrew Chisholm (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - October 12, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news Source Type: news
Obtain gene data using SimpleMine
You can query certain types of gene data such as expression in tissue and life stage, RNAi phenotypes, allele phenotypes and gene descriptions using the SimpleMine tool. You can paste in a list of gene names of interest or upload a file with gene names. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 20, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news data mining tools WS254 Source Type: news
Check out our new tissue enrichment analysis tool!
We are pleased to announce our new web-based tool ‘TEA‘, this tool has been developed for identifying enrichment of C. elegans tissues among gene sets. The software is also available for download. Description of the tool is published here. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - September 14, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication new features news paper of interest bioinformatics tools Source Type: news
Latest chapter of WormBook in GENETICS: Programmed Cell Death During Caenorhabditis elegans Development
Check out the latest chapter of WormBook in GENETICS!
Programmed Cell Death During Caenorhabditis elegans Development
Barbara Conradt, Yi-Chun Wu, Ding Xue
GENETICS August 1, 2016 vol. 203 no. 4 1533-1562; DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.186247
Abstract
Programmed cell death is an integral component of Caenorhabditis elegans development. Genetic and reverse genetic studies in C. elegans have led to the identification of many genes and conserved cell death pathways that are important for the specification of which cells should live or die, the activation of the suicide program, and the dismantling and removal of dying cells. Mole...
Source: WormBase - August 18, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news Source Type: news
Please take the Alliance of Genome Resources Survey
. Your response is very important to us and will let funding agencies know how important model organism databases such as WormBase and other genome resources are to your research. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - July 22, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news Source Type: news
WormBase will be at the TAGC in Orlando!
WormBase will be at the The Allied Genetics Conference 2016 (TAGC), July 13-17, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. WormBase will have posters, will be hosting workshops and will have a Demo booth together with other model organism databases. This is your opportunity to ask questions related to data and querying it, in WormBase and other databases. There will be a limited number of free goodies distributed to visitors at the booth. So get to the WormBase booth as fast as you can! (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - July 12, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication meetings news Source Type: news
Announcing the Alliance of Genome Resources
An Alliance of Genome Resources has been formed to provide better support for the biological sciences via an integration of shared data, standardization of data models and interfaces, and unified outreach to researchers, educators and the public. The initial members of the Alliance are the Gene Ontology Consortium and six model organism databases: Saccharomyces Genome Database, WormBase, FlyBase, Zebrafish Model Organism Database, Mouse Genome Database and Rat Genome Database. The integration of these projects will not decrease the types of data, tools and community support that are currently provided by these resources bu...
Source: WormBase - July 12, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news Source Type: news
Please support Model Organism Databases (MODs)
Model Organisms such as yeast, worm, fly, fish, and mouse are key drivers of biological research, providing experimental systems that yield insights into human biology and health. Model Organism Databases (MODs) and other genome resources like Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium enable researchers all over the world to uncover basic, conserved biological mechanisms relevant to new medical therapies.
NHGRI/NIH has recently advanced a plan to reduce MOD funding while encouraging these resources to share as much infrastructure as possible. While there are a number of advantages of more integration such as consistent user interfac...
Source: WormBase - June 24, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news Source Type: news
Gene Transfer Format (GTF) files now available
WormBase now provides the canonical gene set for each species in Gene Transfer Format (GTF, http://mblab.wustl.edu/GTF22.html). These files can be used directly by a number of popular sequence analyses tools (e.g. Cufflinks).
The GTF files are available from the WormBase FTP site, for example, the GTF file for C. elegans, c_elegans.PRJNA13758.WS253.canonical_geneset.gtf.gz, is available here.
(Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - June 20, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication new datasets news data files data release Source Type: news
