title: WormBase 2014: new views of curated biology.
abstract: WormBase (http://www.wormbase.org/) is a highly curated resource dedicated to supporting research using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. With an electronic history predating the World Wide Web, WormBase contains information ranging from the sequence and phenotype of individual alleles to genome-wide studies generated using next-generation sequencing technologies. In recent years, we have expanded the contents to include data on additional nematodes of agricultural and medical significance, bringing the knowledge of C. elegans to bear on these systems and providing support for underserved research communities. Manual curation of the primary literature remains a central focus of the WormBase project, providing users with reliable, up-to-date and highly cross-linked information. In this update, we describe efforts to organize the original atomized and highly contextualized curated data into integrated syntheses of discrete biological topics. Next, we discuss our experiences coping with the vast increase in available genome sequences made possible through next-generation sequencing platforms. Finally, we describe some of the features and tools of the new WormBase Web site that help users better find and explore data of interest.
authors.affiliation: Informatics and Bio-computing Platform, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G0A3, Canada, Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University, School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK, Department of Genetics Campus, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA, Genetics Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
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mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D049751:Genome, Helminth; D020407:Internet; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D009348:Nematoda / Q000235:genetics