Announcements

WormBase ParaSite Release 18: Our Biggest Update Yet

posted 11 months ago by Dionysis Grigoriadis

We are thrilled to announce the release of WormBase ParaSite 18 (WBPS18), our most comprehensive update yet, with the largest number of new genomes and updated annotations since the resource was first launched! WBPS18 hosts 240 different genomes from 181 species. Highlights New Species New Trematodes (Flukes) Genome Updates Trematodes (Flukes) Pairwise Whole Genome Alignments [read more]

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posted 1 year ago by Dionysis Grigoriadis

If you’re using WormBase ParaSite, then you should subscribe to our mailing list so you can frequently receive updates on WormBase Parasite database improvements and new features, career opportunities, and upcoming conferences and workshops. Subscribing to the WormBase Parasite mailing list is easy! Simply fill out the subscription form at https://forms.gle/gN5NqZJ3FeVDkpTA8 and stay updated with [read more]

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Tutorial: Display variants on AlphaFold-predicted 3D protein structures

posted 10 months ago by Dionysis Grigoriadis

You’ve sequenced your samples and identified variants. Great! Now, here’s how you can use WormBase ParaSite’s new feature to find out the effect of your variants on 3D AlphaFold protein structures and interactions: 2. Click the ‘Variant Effect Predictor’ button to open the VEP web tool and enter your input data using instructions in the [read more]

Tutorial: Visualise pairwise genome alignments between WBPS genomes

posted 11 months ago by Dionysis Grigoriadis

From release 18 (WBPS18), users can browse and visualise whole genome alignments between genomes in the same taxonomic group. Cactus, a next-generation aligner that stores whole-genome alignments in a graph structure, was utilised to calculate multiple pairwise genome alignments between WBPS genomes. These genomes have been assigned to 5 big taxonomic groups, and pairwise alignments [read more]

About archive sites

posted 2 years ago by Faye Rodgers

We’re pleased to announce that we have introduced an archiving service. From release 16 onwards, older WormBase ParaSite releases will remain available for browsing. We have introduced this service to help users in transitions between genome and annotation versions. Older, draft assemblies are increasingly being superseded by highly contiguous assemblies generated with modern sequencing technologies. [read more]

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