Announcements

2025


• 2025 User Survey - 2025-03-31

  Please complete the 2025 User Survey found HERE.

  
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• DBSUMI 2025 - 2025-03-11

  The Abstract deadline for an oral presentation is February 14, 2025.

  
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• 2024 Echinobase Citation - 2025-01-21

  Please cite Echinobase in your papers!

  Our funding relies on it.

  
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2024


• Virtual EchinoClub - 2024-12-06

  Hope you can join us!

  When you register we will have your email to send the link the day before the meeting.

  If you have registered for a previous meeting you do not need to register again.

  New registrations please email to Echinobase@andrew.cmu.edu to be added to the list.

  
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• Echinobase Release 6.5.0 - 2024-09-25

  New Pan-echinoderm Ontology will be used for curation.

  
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• FAQs - General - 2024-01-19

  Trying to find information?

  Check the FAQs!

  
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• Alignment is the Ground Truth - 2024-01-19

  BLAST your sequences for primers, probes and morpholinos to check where they align.

  Keep your data updated!!

   

  
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• Echinoderms are Deuterostomes - 2024-01-19

   

  The superphylum

  Deuterostomia includes

  Chordata, 

  Echinodermata and

  Hemichordata phyla.

  Echinodermata includes

  marine only species,

  7,000 extant and

  13,000 extinct. 

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• Echinobase Identifiers - 2024-01-19

   

  Echinobase identifiers have been updated.

  Suggestions for finding your gene of interest and using the new identifiers are available in this

  video tutorial.

   

   

  
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• The Echinoderm Anatomical Ontology (ECAO) - 2024-01-19

   

  An ontology has been developed for echinoderms using standardized terms to describe anatomical cell types and structures and developmental stages.

   

  These spatiotemporal terms will be used by curators to link to gene expression data.

   

   

  
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• FAQs - Gene Names and IDs - 2024-01-19

  Discovery of new genes, or analysis of current genes sometimes leads to gene nomenclature questions.

  Genome-wide studies involving transcripts and proteins require related IDs.

  Here we have listed a few of the more common questions.

  
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2023


• Legacy Site Retired - 2023-09-13
  
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2022


• Echinobase Post at The Node - 2022-12-06
  
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• Echinobase at DBSUMI - 2022-03-29

  Echinobase will have an oral presentation and a poster presentation at the DBSUMI meeting.

  Come and talk with us!

  Complete this short survey please.

  
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• DBSUMI meeting April 5-9 2022 - 2022-02-28

   

  The DBSUMI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday to Saturday, April 5-9, 2022. 

  This international conference has occurred every 18 months since 1981.

  Check back for updates about the 26th meeting of echinoderm scientists.

  March 18th deadline to register.

  
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2021


• New Echinobase Citation - 2021-11-29

  Echinobase has published an article in Nucleic Acids Research describing the development of the knowledgebase.

  The citation is HERE.

  Please cite!!!

  
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• Obituary - William (Bill) Joseph Lennarz - 2021-11-09
  
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• New Echinobase Release 5.4.0 - 2021-11-01

  This new release features many significant updates.

  Explore Echinobase to find the additional functionality and data. 

   

  
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• Euro Evo Devo Webinar - Veronica Hinman - 2021-09-28
  
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• New v3.0 genome assemblies - 2021-06-18

  The bat star, Patiria miniata, v3.0 genome is partially supported on Echinobase including BLAST and genome browser capability.

  The green sea urchin, Lytechinus variegatus, v3.0 genome assembly will be partially supported on Echinobase very soon.

  
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• Obituary - William H. Klein - 2021-03-22
  
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• Request for Video Submissions - 2021-03-09

  JoVE is a peer-reviewed scientific methods video journal that has Methods Collections.

  Submit videos of methods for studying echinoderm embryonic development.

  
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• New Sea Star Genome - 2021-02-09

  The bat star, Patiria miniata v3.0 genome is here on Echinobase and available for BLAST, and genome browser functions.

  The GFF is here for download.

   

  
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2020


• New crinoid genome - 2020-05-30

  Echinobase is providing partial support for the newly released feather star, Anneissia japonica, genome.

  The genome can be viewed in JBrowse and BLAST is supported.

  
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