Main Page

This is the official wiki site for WormBase, the database of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes. WormBase is developed by an international consortium of researchers and computer scientists.

To edit this Wiki, please create an account (click on the 'log in/create account' link at the top of the page). Before contributing, please see the WormBaseWiki usage guidelines.

Using WormBase

User Guides

Official User Guide -- Usage, FAQs, Glossary of terms
Data mining - Learn about the methods for mining WormBase systematically
Searching WormBase for Information About C. elegans (Wiley)
Downloads - Download commonly requested files and datasets
Submitting data and reporting errors

General Information

Installing WormBase on your own computer
Editorial policy - WormBase editorial policy

WormMine

Our WormMine instance

This is on our development machine, which may experience sporadic downtime.

Wiki Page

Community Resources

NGASP

Reagents and Protocols

Strains
Reagents - Useful reagents from third-party sources
Cosmids/YACs
Fosmids
Experimental protocols:
- WormMethods @ WormBook
- Worm Community Forum

Web Resources

Related web resources
Microarray Data Sites
- Stanford Microarray Database (SMD) search page
- SMD gene-centric search page
- Jiang et al. (2001), PNAS 98, 218-223 (SMD data from Kim laboratory's 2001 microarray paper)
- SMD's FTP site
- SPELL

Staying up-to-date

WormBase offers a number of ways to stay up-to-date with new features and datasets, to make feature requests, and to ask for assistance with the database.