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WormBase 2017: molting into a new stage
Author(s) -
Raymond Lee,
Kevin Howe,
Todd Harris,
Valerio Arnaboldi,
Scott Cain,
Juancarlos Chan,
Wen J. Chen,
Paul A. Davis,
Sibyl Gao,
Christian A Grove,
Ranjana Kishore,
HansMichael Müller,
Cecilia Nakamura,
Paulo Nuin,
Michael Paulini,
Daniela Raciti,
Faye H. Rodgers,
Matthew Russell,
Gary Schindelman,
Mary Ann Tuli,
Kimberly Van Auken,
Qinghua Wang,
Gary W. Williams,
A. Jordan Wright,
Karen Yook,
Matthew Berriman,
Paul Kersey,
Tim Schedl,
Lincoln Stein,
Paul W. Sternberg
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nucleic acids research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 9.008
H-Index - 537
eISSN - 1362-4954
pISSN - 0305-1048
DOI - 10.1093/nar/gkx998
Subject(s) - biology , ontology , data curation , resource (disambiguation) , model organism , caenorhabditis elegans , genome , computational biology , data science , computer science , gene , genetics , computer network , philosophy , epistemology
WormBase (http://www.wormbase.org) is an important knowledge resource for biomedical researchers worldwide. To accommodate the ever increasing amount and complexity of research data, WormBase continues to advance its practices on data acquisition, curation and retrieval to most effectively deliver comprehensive knowledge about Caenorhabditis elegans, and genomic information about other nematodes and parasitic flatworms. Recent notable enhancements include user-directed submission of data, such as micropublication; genomic data curation and presentation, including additional genomes and JBrowse, respectively; new query tools, such as SimpleMine, Gene Enrichment Analysis; new data displays, such as the Person Lineage browser and the Summary of Ontology-based Annotations. Anticipating more rapid data growth ahead, WormBase continues the process of migrating to a cutting-edge database technology to achieve better stability, scalability, reproducibility and a faster response time. To better serve the broader research community, WormBase, with five other Model Organism Databases and The Gene Ontology project, have begun to collaborate formally as the Alliance of Genome Resources.

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