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 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.

About C. elegans and Related Nematodes

• Caenorhabditis elegans (Wikipedia)
  
• Key publications
• Genetic Nomenclature
• Other nematodes
• Nematode resequencing and diversity
• The C. elegans Parts List (List of Cells)

Community Resources

• C. elegans laboratories
• Meetings
• Worm Community Discussion Forum (Job postings)
• Software for nematode research
• Related web resources

Reagents and Protocols

• Obtaining strains
• Reagents - Useful reagents from third-party sources
• Cosmids/YACs
• Fosmids
• Experimental protocols: WormMethods @ WormBook | Worm Community Forum
• NGASP

Microarray Data

• 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

Using WormBase

• Site Map
• Mirror sites and frozen releases

User Guides

• Official User Guide
• Data mining - Learn about the methods for mining WormBase systematically
• Searching WormBase for Information About C. elegans (Wiley)
• Glossary of terms
• FAQs

• Downloads - Download commonly requested files and datasets
• Submitting data and reporting errors

General Information

• Release Schedule - When to expect the next release of WormBase, and information on past releases
• Citing WormBase
• Presentations | Publications - public information presented by the developers of WormBase
• Installng WormBase on your own computer
• Editorial policy - WormBase editorial policy
• Acceptable use policy
• Copyright statement
• Privacy statement

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.

• Live Help Desk: The WormBase Room on FriendFeed
• Twitter: Status updates, Software commit messages
• Mailing Lists: General questions | Developers -- More...
• RSS Feeds: News and Status | Development News | WormMart | Wiki:New | Wiki:Changes -- More Info
• WormBase Newsletters
• WormBook Announcements - low volume

For Developers

• Project Calendar
• Conference call agendas and minutes
• Project meeting agendas and minutes
• Developer documentation
• Linking To WormBase
• Suggested pre-release data checks
• Internal documentation and standard operating procedures
• modENCODE Analysis & metadata discussion
• Orthologs: use cases for searches
• Genome sequence changes