Plans for updating C.Elegans genome build?

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

The latest C.Elegans genome in your browser is CE10, based on WormBase's WS220 (which is based on genome build WBcel215).

A new genome build has been released recently (WBcel235), on which the releases since WS235 are based.

Are there any plans to adapt a new WormBase released?

Thanks,
-gordon

[Matthew Speir]

Hello Gordon,

Thank you for your question about updating the Genome Browser to the
newest version of the C. elegans assembly. Our grant specifies that we
focus on vertebrate genomes, and unfortunately, we currently do not have
plans to update our C. elegans browser to the newest version, although
that may happen sometime in the future.

In the meantime, you can create an assembly hub for the newest C.
elegans assembly. Assembly hubs are a new feature which allows users to
host their genome and annotations locally and then visualize these
within our browser. Assembly hubs are an extension of our track hub
functionality, by adding a line in the genomes.txt file pointing to a
local hosting of the 2bit file for your assembly, the browser can both
display your unique genome and your locally hosted annotation tracks.

For more information on creating assembly hubs, please review the
following track hub help pages:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgTrackHubHelp.html, and the
assembly hubs wiki page, http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Assembly_Hubs.

I hope this is helpful. If you have any further questions, please reply
to gen...@soe.ucsc.edu. All messages sent to that address are archived
on a publicly-accessible Google Groups forum. If your question includes
sensitive data, you may send it instead to genom...@soe.ucsc.edu.

Matthew Speir
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group