WormBase Help Desk

The next C. elegans Development, Cell Biology, and Gene Expression Meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 7-10.  Keynote Speakers will include Julie Ahringer, David Greenstein, Ken Kemphues, Craig Mello, Karen Oegema, Shai Shaham and Anne Villeneuve.  Organizers:  E. Jane Hubbard, Jeremy Nance, Martha Soto. http://www.union.wisc.edu/celegan...

To accomodate a storage upgrade, select elements of the WormBase website will be unavailable on Saturday, 3 December 2011 from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM (ET; UTC -5). During this time, the following services will be unavailable: the Genome Browser; BLAST, BLAT, ePCR searches; the WormBase wiki; the WormBase blog; and the Worm Community Forum. [...]

The next webinar held by the Data Coordination Center for modENCODE is scheduled for Thursday Dec 1, 12:00 EST. Topic: “Understanding worm and fly chromatin modification data”. It will give an introduction to the data obtained in studies of histone modification marks and chromatin binding proteins. Space is limited so advance registration is necessary. Please [...]

WormBase is collecting information about web resources for worm researchers. If you either run, or know of  an internet-accessible resource that provides information or performs functions useful to the research of C. elegans or other nematodes, please submit this information to raymond@caltech.edu. We plan to construct ‘yellow pages’ for these web resources, so help us [...]

We’ve been the victim of a distributed hacking attempt that has sent 1000s of requests against the site using apparently hijacked machines. It has been difficult to defend against without inadvertently dropping legitimate users. We’ve been ratcheting down on these requests when they arise, although we are still seeing periodic spikes. We should have this [...]

due to the new WormBase web interface (preview it on Beta WormBase) scaling dynamically with demand and location of requests, dedicated permanent mirror sites will become obsolete as soon as the new infrastructure is deployed. As part of this, wormbase.sanger.ac.uk will be retired on the 25th November 2011.

We’re hiring. You want to do web architecture development in support of a project essential to basic biomedical research. The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research seeks an agile and adaptable software engineer with a broad skill set and an interest in applying it to scientific problems. You will assist the team in designing and implementing [...]

WormBase has been updated to the WS227 release of the database. Please see the release notes on the WormBase Wiki. Downloads for commonly requested datasets are available on the FTP site.

We’re simultaneously upgrading the storage architecture and request routing of WormBase starting today (Friday) running through Saturday afternoon. We’ve made preparations to keep all services available during this maintenance period. Intermittent service interruptions are possible, however, as these changes propagate across the global DNS network. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Today, we’re excited to announce the opening of the public beta test period for the next generation WormBase website! http://beta.wormbase.org/ About the Design The new website has been redesigned from the ground up with the following objectives: * Easily handle many species and populations; * Present the full extent of experimental data in C. elegans [...]

We’ve added a Genome Browser instance for the draft genome sequence of Trichinella spiralis. T. spiralis is an obligate parasite of rats, pigs, bears, and humans that causes the disease trichinosis.

WormBase has been updated to the WS226 release of the database. Please see the release notes on the WormBase Wiki.

Are you interested in running your own private instance of WormBase without having to work through a lengthy and complicated installation procedure? The Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) Machine Images (AMIs) of WormBase are your answer. Please see this Worm Breeder’s Gazette post for an overview of the process and this blog post for a detailed [...]