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International Worm Meeting,
2015]
The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC), supported by the National Institutes of Health - Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (NIH-ORIP) and housed at the University of Minnesota, supplies Caenorhabditis strains and information to researchers throughout the world. The CGC will be releasing a new website and on-line ordering system later this year. Our new system will include innovations such as enabling users and PIs to view their order history with ship dates, submit strain information when donating strains, and request lab codes directly through our site. There will be two types of accounts for each lab: A PI level account that will allow the PI or lab manager to edit lab information (billing and preferred shipping addresses, manage lab member accounts, view the order history for the entire lab, etc.) and a lab member level account that will allow each user to place orders, select or edit their preferred shipping address, view their personal order history, etc. The head of the lab must activate their PI account before lab members may set up their individual accounts. All users will be required to register and are encouraged to set up their lab's PI and personal accounts prior to our transition to the new site to avoid delays in placing or receiving their orders. We will provide an overview of our new website, outline key changes to the ordering system, and explain how to prepare your lab for the move to CGC 2.0!
[
International Worm Meeting,
2015]
The Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC) is supported by the National Institutes of Health - Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (NIH-ORIP) and housed at the University of Minnesota. Our primary aim is to acquire, curate, and maintain Caenorhabditis strains and distribute them upon request to researchers throughout the world. There are now nearly 19,000 different strains in the collection, including more than two thousand whole-genome sequenced strains obtained from the Million Mutation Project and other sources. We strive to have at least one allele of every published gene and all chromosome rearrangements, duplications and deficiencies. Selected multiple-mutant stocks and transgenic strains are also available, such as strains that express various fluorescent protein reporter fusions. The CGC has initiated a small research component aimed at enhancing the genetic tool-kit available to C. elegans researchers, including labeling balancer chromosomes with fluorescent markers (some of which are now available). The CGC also distributes stocks of nematode species closely related to C. elegans and bacterial strains necessary for nematode growth. A searchable list of strains, including information about CGC stocks, is accessible through the CGC website (www.cbs.umn.edu/CGC/) and WormBase. Requests for strains should be made on-line through our website. The CGC will be releasing a new on-line ordering system with enhanced user features later this summer. We will be offering a preview of our new website and inform users how to set up their required lab and individual accounts in preparation for the transition to our new ordering system.As mandated by NIH-ORIP, a small yearly user fee and charge per strain is assessed with each order. The CGC strongly encourages use of credit cards for payments. We provide yearly reports to the NIH with statistics that reflect our services to the worm community. A key tracked parameter is the number of published papers that acknowledge the CGC for providing strains. Please remember to acknowledge the CGC in your publications!.