IWM 2021 WormBase workshop available
The IWM 2021 WormBase workshop is now available to view here, on our YouTube channel. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - June 30, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication meetings news tutorials IWM 2021 WormBase workshop Source Type: news
IWM 2021 WormBase workshop questions and answers
Thank-you all for coming to the WormBase workshop. Our chat moderators, speakers and other WormBase staff have answered your questions in a Q&A document. Please note that we have tried to answer you questions as best as possible at the current time. Feel free to seek further clarification by e-mailing us at Help@wormbase.org. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - June 24, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: community meetings news tutorials IWM 2021 Source Type: news
WormBoard Election
Dear Lab Heads,
Please forward this email to everyone in your lab!
Election of WormBoard members is occurring this year as described here: https://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/WormBoard
Please go to this website: https://forms.gle/BLGz9mhTmtxLD1vW6 and follow instructions to cast your ballot for the indicated representative slots.
Each member of the worm community may cast one vote.
Please forward this message to everyone in your group.
Voting will close June 7 2021.
Best wishes, Jane Hubbard (for the election committee) (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - May 31, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news Uncategorized wormboard Source Type: news
The Worm Community Forum is moving!
In the coming weeks, the Worm Community Forum will be migrating to a new home and a new platform.
As part of the Alliance of Genome Resources project (of which WormBase is a founding member), we’ve built an entirely new discussion forum using the Discourse platform.
The Alliance Community Forum represents the first opportunity for online discussions across model organism communities. We hope that this cross fertilization stimulates new discussions, raises awareness about techniques from other areas, and provides a convenient place for posting job positions.
We’ve already ported almost all users and t...
Source: WormBase - May 25, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news Alliance of Genome Resources forums Source Type: news
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 f...
Source: WormBase - April 5, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news paper of interest Uncategorized text summarization tools Source Type: news
23rd International C. elegans meeting abstracts due March 25th
Note that abstracts for the C. elegans IWM are due by Thursday, March 25th. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - March 15, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community external website news meetings IWM Source Type: news
Recording of WormBase webinar available
The recording of today’s WormBase webinar “Data mining strategies and workflows” is now available. If you haven’t registered already, please register for the next webinar “Author First Pass and Textpresso” this coming Friday Feb 26th, 2021. Registration is required for attending the webinar. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - February 22, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news tutorials author first pass Textpresso webinar Source Type: news
Register for upcoming WormBase webinars
The next two webinars “Data mining strategies and workflows” and “Author First Pass and Textpresso” will be held on Feb 22nd and Feb 26th, 2021. Registration is required if you want to attend. Please go to our form to see the complete list of past and upcoming webinars. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - February 18, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community news author first pass data mining Textpresso webinar Source Type: news
Call for nominations for WormBoard
To all in the C. elegans community (please forward to your lab members!),
This is a call for nominations to fill vacancies and turnover on Wormboard. Nominations must be received by March 1, 2021. The entire election procedure and the responsibilities of WormBoard can be found on the WormBase wiki.
Self-nominations are allowed. All nominations shall be accompanied by a short statement (200 words max) explaining why the nominator thinks the nominee would be a good choice to become a WormBoard representative. Please highlight relevant background, experience and qualifications, particularly as they relate to diversity ...
Source: WormBase - February 8, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news wormboard Source Type: news
Announcing the Mentor-Mentee matches for 2021
With gratitude to all those who agreed to be mentors, and with thanks to the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program committee for 2020-2021, we announce the mentor-mentee matches for 2021.
Read more about the program rollout.
Here’s a complete list of all 2021 Mentor-Mentee matches.
To those of you who offered to mentor but were not selected for a match this year, undoubtedly there will be opportunities in the future!! In the meantime, please stay tuned for these and other opportunities to serve the community.
For those of you who did match, the committee plans to contact mentors and mentees mid-y...
Source: WormBase - February 8, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: The WormBoard Tags: news wormboard Source Type: news
Neurogenetics Questionnaire
To all Junior Scientists in the field of Neurogenetics,
We want to hear from you! We are postdocs from the groups of Drs.Oliver Hobert (Columbia University), Cecilia Moens (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) and Kate O’Connor-Giles (Brown University). We are interested in writing an article about the perspectives of early-career scientists (graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior principal investigators) on the future of Neurogenetics research, to be included in the upcoming special Neurogenetics Series in Genetics. By completing this questionnaire, your perspectives on the future of Neurogenetic...
Source: WormBase - February 2, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication community external website news neurogenetics questionnaire Source Type: news
WormBase webinar series: latest webinar available for viewing
The recording of the WormBase webinar “Parasite Biomart” is now available for viewing. Please check out this page for the relevant links to past and coming webinars as well as for webinar registration. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - January 19, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication news tutorials Uncategorized webinar Source Type: news
Change to disease statements in gene descriptions for WS279
Due to non-stringent human ortholog(s) and their associated diseases, C. elegans gene descriptions (displayed in the “Overview widget” of gene pages) often had spurious diseases associated with their human orthologs. With WS279, we imposed a stringency filter and only those disease associations to ortholog(s) called by more than one orthology prediction method are included in the gene description. This change has improved the accuracy of statements that read “human orthologs of this gene are implicated in <disease(s)>”. However, please note that this change has also resulted in the loss of suc...
Source: WormBase - January 14, 2021 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: news release notes Uncategorized gene descriptions WS279 Source Type: news
The 23rd International C. elegans conference is anywhere and everywhere!
The 23rd International C. elegans Conference website is now live.
Dates: June 21-25, 2021
Name: 23rd International C. elegans Conference
Location: Anywhere and Everywhere (virtual)
Organizers: Barbara Conradt and Piali Sengupta
Description: The International C. elegans Conference takes place every two years and features cutting-edge research in a diverse array of topics, including physiology, neurobiology, development, evolution, behavior, aging, ecology, gene regulation, genomics, and more. For 2021, #Worm21 h...
Source: WormBase - December 23, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Ranjana Kishore Tags: brief communication external website news meetings IWM Source Type: news
New release of WormBase: WS279
WormBase has been updated to the WS279 release of the database. In this release, we’ve refined the feedback mechanism and improved error handling behind the scenes. You can read more about the curation statistics of the WS279 release in the release notes. (Source: WormBase)
Source: WormBase - December 17, 2020 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Todd Harris Tags: news release notes WS279 Source Type: news
