WormBase release WS159 now online

"WormBase" <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:16:57 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.science.biology.wormbase.announce
Message-ID <200606210516.k5L5GveL005002__5047.92657816342$1150867269$gmane$org@brie6.cshl.edu>
This is an automatic announcement that WormBase
(http://www.wormbase.org) has just been updated.  New releases occur
roughly every three weeks.

The text of the AceDB release notes, which contains highlights of the
new data is attached.  You can download the full AceDB files from:

   ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/wormbase/current_release/
   or
   ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/acedb/current_release

Additional information on the release, including any necessary patches or bug
fixes can be found on the WormBaseWiki:

   http://www.wormbase.org/wiki/index.php/WSWS159

New release of WormBase WS159, Wormpep159 and Wormrna159 Thu May 25 14:14:24 BST 2006


WS159 was built by [INSERT NAME HERE]
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This directory includes:
i)   database.WS159.*.tar.gz    -   compressed data for new release
ii)  models.wrm.WS159           -   the latest database schema (also in above database files)
iii) CHROMOSOMES/subdir         -   contains 3 files (DNA, GFF & AGP per chromosome)
iv)  WS159-WS158.dbcomp         -   log file reporting difference from last release
v)   wormpep159.tar.gz          -   full Wormpep distribution corresponding to WS159
vi)   wormrna159.tar.gz          -   latest WormRNA release containing non-coding RNA's in the genome
vii)  confirmed_genes.WS159.gz   -   DNA sequences of all genes confirmed by EST &/or cDNA
viii) cDNA2orf.WS159.gz           -   Latest set of ORF connections to each cDNA (EST, OST, mRNA)
ix)   gene_interpolated_map_positions.WS159.gz    - Interpolated map positions for each coding/RNA gene
x)    clone_interpolated_map_positions.WS159.gz   - Interpolated map positions for each clone
xi)   best_blastp_hits.WS159.gz  - for each C. elegans WormPep protein, lists Best blastp match to
                            human, fly, yeast, C. briggsae, and SwissProt & TrEMBL proteins.
xii)  best_blastp_hits_brigprot.WS159.gz   - for each C. briggsae protein, lists Best blastp match to
                                     human, fly, yeast, C. elegans, and SwissProt & TrEMBL proteins.
xiii) geneIDs.WS159.gz   - list of all current gene identifiers with CGC & molecular names (when known)
xiv)  PCR_product2gene.WS159.gz   - Mappings between PCR products and overlapping Genes


Release notes on the web:
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http://wwwdev.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/C_elegans/WORMBASE



Genome sequence composition:
----------------------------

       	WS159       	WS158      	change
----------------------------------------------
a    	32365888	32365775	+113
c    	17779855	17779813	 +42
g    	17756011	17755968	 +43
t    	32365687	32365578	+109
n    	0       	0       	  +0

Total	100267441	100267134	+307
Total number of bases has increased.


Chromosomal Changes:
--------------------

Chromosome: II
9225832 9225831 0   ->   9225832 9225832 1

Chromosome: III
3837845 3837844 0   ->   3837845 3837845 1
12723210 12723225 16   ->   12723211 12723228 18
12924804 12924803 0   ->   12924807 12925163 357

Chromosome: V
20248195 20248327 133   ->   20248195 20248273 79

These are the altered clones for WS159
--------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------
Chrom   Clone         start          size and type
--------------------------------------------------------
  5     Y113G7B       65346          54bp  deletion
  2     ZK1067        41275          1bp   insertion
  3     C36A4         9281           1bp   insertion
  3     Y37D8A        108017         357bp insertion
  3     Y111B2A       230446 230465  2x1bp insertions 



Gene data set (Live C.elegans genes 23750)
------------------------------------------
Molecular_info              22006 (92.7%)
Concise_description          4178 (17.6%)
Reference                    5835 (24.6%)
CGC_approved Gene name       8781 (37%)
RNAi_result                 19794 (83.3%)
Microarray_results          19124 (80.5%)
SAGE_transcript             18180 (76.5%)




Wormpep data set:
----------------------------

There are 20095 CDS in autoace, 23170 when counting 3075 alternate splice forms.

The 23170 sequences contain 10,170,801 base pairs in total.

Modified entries              10
Deleted entries                9
New entries                   16
Reappeared entries             1

Net change  +8



Status of entries: Confidence level of prediction (based on the amount of transcript evidence)
-------------------------------------------------
Confirmed              6695 (28.9%)	Every base of every exon has transcription evidence (mRNA, EST etc.)
Partially_confirmed   11442 (49.4%)	Some, but not all exon bases are covered by transcript evidence
Predicted              5033 (21.7%)	No transcriptional evidence at all



Status of entries: Protein Accessions
-------------------------------------
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot accessions      3220 (14.0%)
UniProtKB/TrEMBL accessions         19687 (85.9%)



Status of entries: Protein_ID's in EMBL
---------------------------------------
Protein_id                22907 (98.9%)



Gene <-> CDS,Transcript,Pseudogene connections (cgc-approved)
---------------------------------------------
Entries with CGC-approved Gene name   7093


GeneModel correction progress WS158 -> WS159
-----------------------------------------
Confirmed introns not in a CDS gene model;

		+---------+--------+
		| Introns | Change |
		+---------+--------+
Cambridge	|     22  |  -3271 |
St Louis 	|      6  |    -9  |
		+---------+--------+

The change of -3271 is mostly a result of fixing a problem in the previous version.


Members of known repeat families that overlap predicted exons;

		+---------+--------+
		| Repeats | Change |
		+---------+--------+
Cambridge	|    584  |     6  |
St Louis 	|    750  |     0  |
		+---------+--------+



Synchronisation with GenBank / EMBL:
------------------------------------



There are no gaps remaining in the genome sequence
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For more info mail [email protected]
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New Data:
---------

Phenotype objects have undergone a very large increase for this
release -- from 128 objects to 1253 objects, reflecting the release of
the phenotype ontology.  The new phenotype objects will coexist with
the old (soon to be deprecated) phenotype objects for the time-being.
RNAi objects for this release are annotated with both old and new
phenotypes, so RNAi objects will have the current style annotations
with short names (e.g. Adl, Let, Bli) and will also be linked to
WBPhenotype objects.  The release of the phenotype ontology correlates
with significant changes to the #Phenotype_info, ?Phenotype, and
?Variation models (though the old tags in ?Variation will coexist with
the new tags in #Phenotype_info for now), and there is a new
?Phenotype_name model.



98 Paper objects corresponding to WormBook chapters have been added to
WormBase. They contain citation information as well as lists of gene,
cell, variation, clone, transgene and rearrangement objects discussed
in a particular chapter. This will allow us to provide direct links to
WormBook from Paper, Gene and other WormBase pages.


New Fixes:
----------


Known Problems:
--------------


Other Changes:
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Proposed Changes / Forthcoming Data:
------------------------------------


Model Changes:
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 * Added Homo_homol to Expr_pattern for Wen.

 * Changes to Anatomy_term to allow movement of data from cell and
   cell_group classes.

 * Minor alterations for Carol's Phenotype update.

 * Made Phenotype related changes, leaving in transitionary tags to hold
   data until Caltech are ready to complete transfer.


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Quick installation guide for UNIX/Linux systems
-----------------------------------------------

1. Create a new directory to contain your copy of WormBase,
	e.g. /users/yourname/wormbase

2. Unpack and untar all of the database.*.tar.gz files into
	this directory. You will need approximately 2-3 Gb of disk space.

3. Obtain and install a suitable acedb binary for your system
	(available from www.acedb.org).

4. Use the acedb 'xace' program to open your database, e.g.
	type 'xace /users/yourname/wormbase' at the command prompt.

5. See the acedb website for more information about acedb and
	using xace.

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