Now that there are multiple technologies for producing vast amounts of Transcript data people are reporting new coding and non-coding gene loci which WormBase tries to rationalise and incorporate into the canonical gene set.
With the recent release of miRBase V21 (http://www.mirbase.org/blog/2014/07/high-confidence-mirna-set-available-for-mirbase-21) we became aware of a number of publications that introduce classification conflict for small non-coding loci.
Example:
There is one loci that was classified as a piRNA in c2009 and a more recent publication that contains the exact same transcript as one of the mature miRNA transcripts from one arm of a pre-miRNA.
This has been referred back to miRBase and the authors but in terms of incorporating into the C. elegans genes set it is a little more difficult.
Just after the views of ncRNA specialists in the community.
Paul Davis - WormBase