Alliance of Genome Resources

🏆 Nominations are open for the 2026 GSA Awards! Honor excellence in genetics across all career stages—creativity, mentorship, education, and more. Self-nominations welcome!
⏰ Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
🧬 Nominate now: buff.ly/JNHMlEb

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New GO data just out!! The July 2025 GO Release 2025-07-22 is now available.

➡️ current.geneontology.org

➡️ release.geneontology.org/2025-07-22

📓 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.16423886: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

39,906 GO terms
9,417,935 annotations
1,602,275 gene products
5,497 species

WormBase announces its final major update, WS298, will be in Oct2025. No more new WormBase releases; existing data will be moved into Alliance of Genome Resources, ensuring vital C. elegans datasets remain accessible. Stay tuned for more updates.

Read more: blog.wormbase.org/2025/07/23/a...

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT

In the July issue of #G3journal, @terimandakova.bsky.social and the team present the genome of Boechera falcata, the only Eurasian species of the North American plant group, offering clues about how the plant evolved and reproduces.

Read more: buff.ly/KFrBzpd

FlyBase.org release FB2025_03 is live! Go enjoy the refreshed data.

Announcing the Final Release of WormBase It is with heavy hearts but also excitement for the future to announce that the next release of WormBase will also be its last. WS298 — scheduled for release in October 2025 — will be the final major...

WormBase news: the upcoming October release of WormBase.org (WS298) will be the final major WormBase release. WormBase data is being incorporated into AllianceGenome.org. Please see this post for much more information community.alliancegenome.org/t/announcing...

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Are you a researcher, technician or veterinary professional working with mouse models in biomedical research? Learn essential surgical techniques at an upcoming JAX workshop.

📅 Nov. 3 – 6
📍 Bar Harbor, ME
🔗 jax.org/education-an...

📅 Dec. 2 – 5
📍 Farmington, CT
🔗 www.jax.org/education-an...
#VetMed

#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social

’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25 After a quarter of a century, the website remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact.

It’s been 25 years since the UCSC Genome Browser launched. Nature profiles how the website remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function, and clinical impact. #Academicsky 🧬 🧪

It’s time to pull out your cameras! Please send us your cute/fun high-res photos of rats to RGD.Community@mcw.edu Please submit by Friday, August 22, 2025. We'll send copies to photo contributors; see our website for details: rgd.mcw.edu/wg/rgd-2026-...

A significant emphasis will be placed on undergraduates, trainees, and junior faculty, with opportunities for platform presentations, flash talks, posters, and roundtable discussions.
@socdevbio.bsky.social @xenbase.bsky.social @dshb-antibodies.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social

Sessions will feature fundamental discovery and mechanistic research in a diversity of systems, education and outreach, the developmental basis of disease, and human organoid models.

Midwest SDB 2025

The Midwest Regional Society for Developmental Biologists meeting, Sept 19-21, 2025, will be at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio www.midwestsdbincincy.org
Registration deadline 9/7/25; abstract deadlines 8/7/25 for talks, 8/22/25 for posters.

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Mentor-mentee matching program - the Node Call for Mentors from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026), following a successful

#FlyCROSS is a mentor-mentee matching program for the fly community. They're looking for mentors from all career paths (academia, industry, policy etc.) who have experience with #Drosophila research and are eager to support the next generation of fly scientists.

Apply to become a mentor by 14 July:

Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter for your health.

Biomedical research budget cuts at Harvard threaten @flybase.bsky.social —known as the "Wikipedia of fruit fly research", fueling key discoveries in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, addiction, birth defects, and more.
Details: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f #FlyBase

ICYMI from @scekker.bsky.social et al.

Rat Genome Database is excited to announce the new #Behavioral & #Substance Use Disorder Portal—your resource for data and tools on #behavior, #addiction, & more.
Explore: rgd.mcw.edu/rgdweb/porta...
Learn more: rgd.mcw.edu/wg/behavior_...

Image Text: From Roots to Canopy: Advanced X-ray Imaging in Plant Biology. Tuesday, July 29, 2025. 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM. Karolina Michalska, Tiffany Victor- Lovelace, Ju-Chen Chia, Xiaoyu Gao, Teagen Quilichini, and Keith Duncan. Argonne National Laboratory | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Cornell University | Baylor University | University of Saskatchewan | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: From Roots to Canopy: Advanced X-ray Imaging in Plant Biology Concurrent Session!🌱https://buff.ly/vyoUm4T

Learn more and register now!👉https://buff.ly/HxHfSca

#plantscience

Thanks to all who have expressed a willingness to support FlyBase. The wheels of bureaucracy are large and grind slowly. We expect to have a fee process in place by July. @flybase.bsky.social

DaniocellDesktop logo, depicting a fish on a laptop screen.

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

Alliance Of Genome Resources Event Registration

If you'd like to sign up for our August presentation, 'Ontologies and the Alliance' (presented by Chris Mungall), you can do that here forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP...

YouTube video by Alliance Of Genome Resources Orthology and Paralogy at the Alliance

Today's Alliance webinar, Orthology and Paralogy at the Alliance, is now posted to our YouTube channel, so if you missed it, want to see it again, or want to share it with a colleague, here it is youtu.be/n47SPQCSl0Y

Khankhuuluu in the timeline of tyrannosaurs. Credit: Jared Voris

A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a new species of tyrannosauroid — the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. This discovery sheds new light on the evolution of wider tyrannosaur species. go.nature.com/4jM0KVo #Paleosky 🧪

We have updated APPRIS to @gencodegenes.bsky.social v48/ @ensembl.bsky.social v114. New principal isoforms for human, mouse, rat, cow and fruit fly ( @flybase.bsky.social ).

Principal isoforms for a total of 73 human genes have been updated manually.

VFB works closely with the FlyBase team and we rely on their hard work to provide many of our features. Due to the current funding situation at FlyBase (flybase.org), we encourage our users to donate and help maintain this essential resource.

FlyBase needs your help!

Because of recent changes to government funding, the NIH grant that supported FlyBase has been "terminated." flybase.org

The Alliance webinar on Orthology and Paralogy at the Alliance is TOMORROW (June 12), noon EDT. Preregister by TONIGHT (June 11) by midnight EDT for the Zoom link forms.gle/GzMnmwK23SzP....

June's Alliance webinar is THIS Thursday (June 12), noon EDT. Preregister by Wedneday (June 11) by midnight EDT for the Zoom link. Did you register for this webinar when you signed up for an earlier one? Expect a link tonight!

“This resource will allow other researchers to skip the tedious & laborious training steps for setting up behavioral analyses, guide model selection for specific research needs, & provide ground truth data for benchmarking new tracking methods.”

New tool from @ethanscottlab.bsky.social & Conrad Lee

#ZebrafishMeeting, for those finterested!