WormBase: new content and better access

WormBase (http://wormbase.org), a model organism database for Caenorhabditis elegans and other related nematodes, continues to evolve and expand. Over the past year WormBase has added new data on C.elegans, including data on classical genetics, cell biology and functional genomics; expanded the annotation of closely related nematodes with a new genome browser for Caenorhabditis remanei; and deployed new hardware for stronger performance. Several existing datasets including phenotype descriptions and RNAi experiments have seen a large increase in new content. New datasets such as the C.remanei draft assembly and annotations, the Vancouver Fosmid library and TEC-RED 50 end sites are now available as well. Access to and searching WormBase has become more dependable and flexible via multiple mirror sites and indexing through Google. DESCRIPTION Much of our understanding of biological processes and human biology comes from a vast amount of data generated in the study of a few model organis...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Tamberlyn Bieri, Darin Blasiar, Philip Ozersky, Igor Antoshechkin, Carol Bastiani, Payan Canaran, Juancarlos Chan, Nansheng Chen, Wen J. Chen, Paul Davis, Tristan J. Fiedler, Lisa R. Girard, Michael Han, Todd W. Harris, Ranjana Kishore, Raymond Lee, Sheldon J. McKay, Hans-Michael Müller, Cecilia Nakamura, Andrei Petcherski, Arun Rangarajan, Anthony Rogers, Gary Schindelman, Erich M. Schwarz, William Spooner, Mary Ann Tuli, Kimberly Van Auken, Daniel Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Gary Williams, Richard Durbin, Lincoln D. Stein, Paul W. Sternberg, John Spieth
• Keywords: Model Organisms, NAR 2007, Related Nematodes, WormBase