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 47

Caenorhabditis elegans News

• WormBase 180
  Ensembl Worm now features data from the WS180 WormBase freeze. This includes 5000+ newly annotated non-coding RNA genes, some small genomic sequence changes and updated gene models.

General News

• FTP site rearrangements
  For release 47 we have rearranged our FTP directory structure, so that instead of being <species>/<file_type> it will be <file_type>/<species>.
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• Histogram plots
  We now support URL based histogram and colour gradient plots, compatible with the UCSC-based BED and other formats.
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• GO terms now projected onto more species
  

  Some important changes have been made to Ensembl GO projections, in collaboration with the team at GOA.
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• Changes to Xrefs
  

  A number of changes have been made to the external database references (Xrefs) for various species.
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Statistics

* Total number of base pairs = sum of lengths of DNA table

** Reference assembly (Golden path) length = sum of non-redundant top level seq regions