Feature WishList
This is a running list of proposed features at WormBase
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Human disease
We need deeper integration with human diseases. This is a benefit both to people who use C. elegans as a model system (most grants at least true to touch on the relevance of given projects with human disease) as well as those looking to the system to help understand orthologous genes implicated in disease.
Ontologies
We don't too much with ontology other than display a list of associations for a given object. What else can we do? For example, on the gene page, we could expand the ontology section to show genes with similar patterns of enrichment. We might also consider integrate a tool like AmiGO to make it easier to browse ontologies.
Homology/Orthology
Variations
Mapping molecularly characterized variations against protein domains and cross referencing with phenotypes to infer domain/protein function.
