WormBase SimpleMine users can now batch-download chromosome coordinates and transcription factors within 2kb of promoter regions. When searching for interacting genes, there is a new option to excl…

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We’re pleased to announce the WS288 release of WormBase. This release includes additional single cell expression data and numerous small quality-of-life improvements to the website. As always…

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Only 10 days left to apply to our practical hands-on training course in helminth genome analysis (#HelminthBio23) organised by @stephenrdoyle@akoiwang! FREE to attend & travel bursaries are ava…

Check out the latest chapter, “Syanaptogenesis: unmasking molecular mechanisms using Caenorhabditis elegans” by Kota Mizumoto, Yishi Jin and Jean-Louis Bessereau.

The abstract deadline for The 24th Internal C. elegans Meeting (#worm23) is 30 days from today. The meeting will be held June 24-28, 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland. Don’t delay – submit your abstr…

Got a passion for parasitic worm genomics? Join our team! We’re hiring a bioinformatician at University of Glasgow. The succesfull applicant will work on a range of data analysis, data integration,…

We are happy and proud to announce that WormBase and the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance) have been listed as “biodata resources that are of fundamental importance to the wider biologi…

Please help us secure future funding. We appeal to all labs that use our resource to endorse our proposal using this link by 21st December. Thank you! -WormBase Parasite team

The Mentor Match committee is happy to announce Phase 2 of the 2023 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program – MENTEE sign-ups!  MENTEES can be postdocs or faculty members at a…

The upcoming UK Worm Meeting is hosted at the University of East Anglia on 13th January 2023. This one-day event will bring together researchers working with C. elegans or researchers wor…

Check out these two recent WormBook chapters in the journal GENETICS: 1. “Visualizing and quantifying molecular and cellular processes in Caenorhabditis elegans using light microscopy” …

Dear Worm Community, The Mentor Match committee is happy to announce the roll out of the 2023 C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program!  As a MENTOR, you can: Share your knowledge and expertise to…

Check out the latest new release (5.3.0) of the Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance) which includes two new species–Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropocalis and data refreshes for many data t…

WormBase is excited to announce that the Author First Pass project received support from the National Library of Medicine and is now officially known as ACKnowledge (Author Curation to Knowledgebas…

The new genome browser software is a live, in-page genome browser that you can add tracks to, pan, zoom and do a variety of things JBrowse 1 could do without leaving the page. If you’d like a…