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This is the official wiki site for [http://www.wormbase.org WormBase], the database of the model organism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans Caenorhabditis elegans] and related nematodes. WormBase is developed by an [[WormBase Consortium|international consortium]] of researchers and computer scientists.  
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Here are some formatting tips for those wishing to edit the WormBase Wiki content. If you are logged in as a WormBase Wiki user, try clicking on the "edit" tab at the top of this page and take a look at the different formatting options for generating or editing your own page of interest.
  
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 [[Wiki objectives and usage guidelines|WormBaseWiki usage guidelines]].  
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Here's a [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting link] to Media Wiki's formatting help page, which is very useful.
  
== Header ==
 
  
*[[Main_Page| Text linking you to the WormBase Wiki Home Page]]
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Note: The Table of Contents below automatically appears if you have 4 or more Headers on a page.
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= Header 1 =
  
== Community Resources  ==
 
  
*[http://www.wormbase.org/db/misc/laboratory?name=%2A;class=laboratory C. elegans laboratories]
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== Header 2 ==
*[[Meetings|Meetings]]
 
*[http://www.wormbase.org/forums/ Worm Community Discussion Forum] ([http://www.wormbase.org/forums/ Job postings])
 
*[[Software for nematode research|Software for nematode research]]
 
*[[Related web resources|Related web resources]]
 
*[[NGASP|NGASP]]
 
  
=== Reagents and Protocols ===
 
  
*[[Strains|Strains]]
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=== Header 3 ===
*[[Reagents|Reagents]] - ''Useful reagents from third-party sources''
 
*[[Cosmids/YACs|Cosmids/YACs]]
 
*[[Fosmids|Fosmids]]
 
* Experimental protocols: [http://www.wormbook.org/toc_wormmethods.html WormMethods @ WormBook] | [http://www.wormbase.org/forums/ Worm Community Forum]
 
  
=== Microarray Data ===
 
  
*[http://smd.stanford.edu/search.shtml  Stanford Microarray Database (SMD) search page]
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==== Header 4 ====
*[http://smd.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/search/nameSearch.pl SMD gene-centric search page]
 
*[http://smd.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/publication/viewPublication.pl?pub_no=91 Jiang et al. (2001), PNAS 98, 218-223] (SMD data from Kim laboratory's 2001 microarray paper)
 
*[ftp://smd-ftp.stanford.edu/smd/publications/91/  SMD's FTP site]
 
*[[SPELL|''SPELL'']]
 
  
== Using WormBase  ==
 
  
*[[Site Map|Site Map]]
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[[Main_Page| An internal link to the Wiki Main Page]]
*[[Mirror sites and frozen releases|Mirror sites and frozen releases]]
 
  
User Guides
 
  
*[[User Guide|Official User Guide]]  -- ''Usage, FAQs, Glossary of terms''
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[http://www.wormbase.org An external link to WormBase.org]
*[[Data mining|Data mining]] - ''Learn about the methods for mining WormBase systematically''
 
*[[Searching WormBase for Information About C. elegans (Wiley)|Searching WormBase for Information About C. elegans (Wiley)]]  
 
  
  
*[[Downloads|Downloads]] - ''Download commonly requested files and datasets''
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* Bullet Point
*[[Guidelines for Users on Submitting/Reporting Data to WormBase|Submitting data and reporting errors]]
 
  
General Information
 
  
*[[Release Schedule|Release Schedule]] - ''When to expect the next release of WormBase, and information on past releases''  
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''Italics''
*[[Citing WormBase|Citing WormBase]]
 
*[[Presentations|Presentations]] | [[Publications|Publications]] - ''public information presented by the developers of WormBase''
 
*[[Local installation of WormBase|Installng WormBase on your own computer]]
 
*[[Editorial policy|Editorial policy]] - ''WormBase editorial policy''
 
*[[Acceptable use policy|Acceptable use policy]]
 
*[[WormBaseWiki:Copyrights|Copyright statement]]
 
*[[Acceptable use policy#Privacy statement|Privacy statement]]
 
  
== Staying up-to-date  ==
 
  
[http://www.wormbase.org 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.
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* Live Help Desk: [http://friendfeed.com/rooms/wormbase The WormBase Room on FriendFeed]
 
* Twitter: [http://www.twitter.com/wormbase Status updates], [http://www.twitter.com/wormbase_commit Software commit messages]
 
* Mailing Lists: [[Mailing lists#help|General questions]] | [[Mailing lists#developers|Developers]] -- [[Mailing lists|More...]]
 
* RSS Feeds: [http://www.wormbase.org/rss/wormbase-live.xml News and Status] | [http://www.wormbase.org/rss/wormbase-dev.xml Development News] -- [[RSS news feeds|More Info]]
 
*[[WormBase Newsletters|WormBase Newsletters]]
 
*[http://www.wormbook.org/announce.html WormBook Announcements] - ''low volume''
 
  
== Internal Documentation ==
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*[[WormBase Staff Resources]] -- ''A guide to the tools available for WormBase staff''
 
  
*[[Developer documentation|Developer documentation]]
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*[[Caltech documentation]]
 
  
*[[Working Groups|Working Groups]]
 
  
  
  
 
[[Category:User Guide]]
 
[[Category:User Guide]]
[[Category:Developer documentation]]
 
[[Category:WikiMainPage]]
 
[[Category:Meetings]]
 
[[Category:Curation]]
 

Latest revision as of 20:04, 10 November 2010

Here are some formatting tips for those wishing to edit the WormBase Wiki content. If you are logged in as a WormBase Wiki user, try clicking on the "edit" tab at the top of this page and take a look at the different formatting options for generating or editing your own page of interest.

Here's a link to Media Wiki's formatting help page, which is very useful.


Note: The Table of Contents below automatically appears if you have 4 or more Headers on a page.

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

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An internal link to the Wiki Main Page


An external link to WormBase.org


  • Bullet Point


Italics


BOLD


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