C.elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans
 (Photo courtesy of Mark Blaxter)

The March 2004 Caenorhabditis elegans assembly is based on sequence version WS120 deposited into WormBase as of 1 March 2004.

Sample position queries

A genome position can be specified by the accession number of a sequenced genomic clone, an mRNA, or EST, or a gene identifier, chromosomal coordinate range, or keywords from the GenBank description of an mRNA. The following list shows examples of valid position queries for the C. elegans genome. See the User's Guide for more information.

Request:
    Genome Browser Response:

chrII Displays all of chromosome II (valid chr entries include I, II, III, IV, V, M, X)
chrI:1-100000 Displays the first 100,000 bases of chrI
Z81037.1 Displays clone fragment Z81037.1
mec-8 Displays region of genome associated with RefSeq gene mec-8
F46A9.4 Displays the region associated with the Sanger predicted gene F46A9.4
NM_060107 Displays region of genome associated with RefSeq identifier NM_060107
BJ111711 Displays region of EST associated with GenBank accession BJ111711
zinc finger Lists many zinc finger mRNAs
ring zinc finger Lists only RING zinc fingers
Jones,D. Lists mRNAs deposited by co-author D. Jones

Use this last format for author queries. Although GenBank requires the search format Jones D, internally it uses the format Jones,D..

Assembly details

This assembly has a finishing error rate of 1:10,000. C. elegans is a major model organism used for biomedical research. It is the first multicellular animal to have a fully sequenced genome, a joint collaboration between the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis and the Sanger Institute. For more information, see the special issue of Science "C. elegans: Sequence to Biology".

The ce2 sequence and annotation data may be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser FTP server or Downloads web page. The ce2 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the Credits page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this release.

GenBank Pipeline Details

For the purposes of the GenBank alignment pipeline, this assembly is considered to be: finished.