News and announcements

Listed below are various relevant news items and announcements for BCe groups. Let us know if you would like to have newsworthy items added by contacting us.

  • Nov. 26, 2008. Gexplore: a fast and useful online tool introduced by Harald Hutter for C. elegans data-mining; try it at GExplore (also listed under Links & Resources).
  • Oct. 19, 2008. Incorporated the VanWoRM website into this BCe site. See the new VanWoRM-specific section.
  • Oct. 16, 2008. New Contact form added to simplify much-wanted feedback on the site (thank you, Penny Ng from the Chen lab!).
  • Oct. 14, 2008. Marty Chalfie and two other scientists win the Nobel prize for their discovery and work on GFP.
  • Sept. 26, 2008. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun (with David Baulcombe) have won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work on small regulatory RNAs, while Susan Mango has won a MacArthur Fellowship for work on the genomics of organogenesis; see WormBase news.
  • Sept. 15, 2008. The BCe website is up and running! Suggestions for adding to, and improving the website are much appreciated; please let us know.