Please follow nomenclature guidelines for engineered alleles and constructs
New methods for genome engineering (TALENs, CRISPR-Cas9, etc.) are increasingly being applied to C. elegans. Please remember to use nomenclature guidelines when naming these engineered alleles or constructs. Refer to the guidelines in the ‘Genome Engineering’ widget here. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - January 7, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news Source Type: news
December 2015: 20 new labs have joined the community!
20 new labs have registered with WormBase and the CGC. Please join us in welcoming these labs to the community!
Representative
Lab Code
Allele Code
Institution
URL
Bi-Tzen Juang
BTJ
nct
National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
David de Pomerai
DDP
uon
The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Frank Doering
FED
cau
University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
website
Ana Carvalho
GCP
prt
IBMC, Porto, Portugal
Haijun Tu
HTU
aij
Hunan University, Hunan, China
website
Jose Perez-Martin
JPM
sal
Instituto de Biologia Funcional y Genomica CSIC, Salamanca, Spain
Jingru Sun
JRS
sun
Washington State University, Spokan...
Source: WormBase - December 25, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: community new labs news cgc Source Type: news
Call for nominations for a Worm Board
Dear Worm Community,
Following discussions at the 2015 International Worm Meeting it is apparent that there is a need for a group to support community resources and infrastructure. Here we announce the formation of a Worm Board. An ‘Interim Worm Board’, listed below, has drawn up a Charter (appended) and will hold elections for the first Worm Board.
We plan to hold the first elections in early 2016. We now ask for nominations for President, officers and regional representatives to begin terms from Spring 2016. The President-elect would serve as an officer for the first year, then become President in Spring 2017. Andrew...
Source: WormBase - December 18, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news Source Type: news
REMINDER!! – Gene Ontology (GO) Survey – Closes Sunday, November 15th
Attention GO users!! The Gene Ontology Consortium would love to hear your feedback about GO. Please assist the GO project by completing a short survey. The results will help us learn more about how you use GO, how GO can serve your research needs better, and will aid in preparation for the upcoming GO grant renewal. Surveys completed by November 15th 2015 will be eligible for a prize drawing for a $400 Apple Store voucher. Thanks in advance for your time! (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - November 13, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news Source Type: news
WormMart Sunset Period: to be retired 01 Jan 2016
Today we are announcing the “sunset” period for WormMart at WormBase. WormMart will be formally retired from WormBase at the end of 2015.
For many years, WormMart was the primary data mining facility at WormBase. Later, we replaced it with WormMine based on the Intermine platform. In that time, we have maintained the two in parallel, although WormMart updates were frozen at the WS220 release of WormBase.
With the new release of WormMine for WS250, WormMine is now in a position to replace much of the existing functionality of WormMart but with a raft of more powerful and useful features. Over coming releases sta...
Source: WormBase - November 13, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news service status wormmart wormmine Source Type: news
WormBook in Genetics: access and choices
Dear All,
I would like to address some questions that have come up regarding the partnership with the GSA and access to WormBook in the journal GENETICS.
As I said in a quote to the GSA blog, “WormBook in GENETICS will continue a great community tradition and will strengthen our longstanding association with GENETICS, which began with the publication in 1974 of Sydney Brenner’s landmark paper. That association has grown, which is apparent in the many papers that appear every year in GENETICS and G3, as well as in the GSA’s sponsorship of the C. elegans meetings.”
GSA provides a sustainable platform for publ...
Source: WormBase - November 6, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: external website news Source Type: news
Announcement of WormBook in GENETICS
WormBook is excited to announce that we have partnered with The Genetics Society of America to publish new WormBook content in GENETICS. GENETICS will publish about 50 new chapters over the course of four years. Existing chapters will remain available at http://www.wormbook.org/, and several new and updated chapters will appear there over the next six months. Letters describing these changes from Marty Chalfie and Iva Greenwald, who succeeds Marty as WormBook Editor-in-Chief, can be found in the blog posts below.
–Jane Mendel (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - November 3, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: news Source Type: news
