WormBase

New release of WormBase: WS203

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:46:46 -0500

WormBase has been updated to the WS203 release of the database.

New release of WormBase: WS202

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:16:00 -0500

WormBase has been updated to the WS202 release of the database.

WormBase on FriendFeed and Twitter

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:18:34 -0500

Have a question about WormBase that you desperately need answered? Drop us a line in the WormBase Help Desk group on FriendFeed. Want to keep up on system status and new features? Follow us on Twitter. Or subscribe to one of our RSS feeds.

Paul Sternberg elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:50:59 -0500

Paul Sternberg, principal investigator of WormBase, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations, Paul!

WormBase changes curation procedure

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:20:32 -0500

WormBase will ask authors to specify the types of data in their papers using a simple "author first-pass form" that will be e-mailed. Your timely participation in this effort will help prioritize your paper for curation.

New release of WormBase: WS201

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:19:50 -0500

WormBase has been updated to the WS201 release of the database.

New release of WormBase: WS200

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:25:18 -0500

WorBase has been updated to the WS200 release of the database. This will be 11th referential release of WormBase, available shortly at ws200.wormbase.org.

Whole genome sequencing for mutant identification workshop

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:11:46 -0500

Oliver Hobert will be leading a workshop on whole genome sequencing for mutant identification at the IWM. Those interested in contributing to the workshop should contact Oliver at or38@columbia.edu.

New release of WormBase, WS199

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:35:02 -0500

WormBase has been updated to the WS199 release of the database.

Request for Workshop Proposals at IWM

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:54:35 -0500

Are you interested in conducting a workshop at the International Worm Meeting this summer? Are there workshops that you would like to see held? Please contact Chris Li (cli@sci.ccny.cuny.edu) or David Greenstein (green959@umn.edu) with your ideas.

New release of WormBase: WS197

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:39:07 -0500

WormBase has been updated to the WS197 release of the database [release notes].

New release of WormBase: WS195

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:08:05 -0500

WormBase has been updated to the WS195 release of the database.

Martin Chalfie wins Nobel Prize for GFP in C. elegans

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:42:16 -0500

Martin Chalfie (with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien) has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of GFP in C. elegans. This is the third Nobel Prize awarded for research on C. elegans in the last six years.

Award-winning C. elegans biologists.

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:40:40 -0500

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun (with David Baulcombe) have won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work on small regulatory RNAs, while Susan Mango has won a MacArthur Fellowship for work on the genomics of organogenesis.

New release of WormBase: WS194

Todd Harris (harris@cshl.edu) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:53:20 -0500

WormBase has been updated to the WS194 release of the database.