Ensembl C.elegans

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About the C. elegans genome

Assembly and Annotation

The data on this site is a direct import of the WormBase 180 frozen dataset. Included are annotated operons, genes, transcripts and cds's as well as RNAi and BLAST/BLAT homology data. Information about the location of available fosmid clones is also included.

The WS180 dataset is the 9th frozen release of WormBase C.elegans data. All data used in the frozen releases is available from the WormBase FTP site and links to permanent websites can be found on the WormBase home page.

We have included C.elegans in the Ensembl system to allow people to access the data through the Ensembl user interface (both for visualisation and data mining) and to provide cross-species integration through our comparative genomics resources (such as homologous gene links and protein family pages).

What's New in Ensembl 49

Caenorhabditis elegans News

There is no Caenorhabditis elegans-specific news this release.

General News

• Release schedule
  

  Ensembl release 50 will occur in July (rather than in April as originally scheduled).
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• API changes - regulatory features
  Regulatory feature support has been moved from the core API to the functional genomics API. More information about using the new code...
• Removal of viral genes
  We have removed a total of about 1200 viral genes from the following species.
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• Mart updates
  RGD and SGD Symbol+ID combinations have been introduced, similar to HGNC, MGI and ZFIN. The issue with subsets of homologs being returned has been resolved.
• Compara updates
  

  Multiple alignments

  We are now using the new enredo-pecan-ortheus (EPO) pipeline for 7-way alignments (placental mammals).
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Statistics

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