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. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D506-10.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl818. Epub 2006 Nov 11.

WormBase: new content and better access

Tamberlyn Bieri  1 , Darin Blasiar, Philip Ozersky, Igor Antoshechkin, Carol Bastiani, Payan Canaran, Juancarlos Chan, Nansheng Chen, Wen J Chen, Paul Davis, Tristan J Fiedler, Lisa Girard, Michael Han, Todd W Harris, Ranjana Kishore, Raymond Lee, Sheldon McKay, Hans-Michael Müller, Cecilia Nakamura, Andrei Petcherski, Arun Rangarajan, Anthony Rogers, Gary Schindelman, Erich M Schwarz, Will Spooner, Mary Ann Tuli, Kimberly Van Auken, Daniel Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Gary Williams, Richard Durbin, Lincoln D Stein, Paul W Sternberg, John Spieth
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WormBase: new content and better access

Tamberlyn Bieri et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan.

Abstract

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 5' 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.

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Figure 1
The increase in content of WormBase as measured by the size of the underlying database. Plotted are the sizes in gigabytes of the archived releases of the WormBase database.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Screen shot of the Homology section of the mec-14 Gene page showing InParanoid groups, C.briggsae orthologs and a TreeFam tree.
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