User Guide 2010:TOC
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Contents
Getting Started
Contacting WormBase
The WB Front page
The Genome Browser
Individual Pages
- Gene Page
- Sequence Page
- Protein Page
- Allele Page
- Clone/Plasmid Page
- Strain Page
- Molecule Page
- Phenotype Page
- The NOT annotations
- RNAi Experiment Page
- SPELL
Searching WB
- Data mining - Learn about the methods for mining WormBase systematically
- Searching WormBase for Information About C. elegans (Wiley)
Simple searches
- Finding
- a gene
- an allele
- a strain
- a sequence
Ontology browsers
- What is an ontology? (What happened to my jargon?)
- What is GO?
Query languages
- AQL
- WQL
Retrieving/Exporting Data
- Bulk data access
- gff files
- WormMart
WB Community Tools
These are tools generated and or maintained by WB for the community.
- Sequence analysis
- orthology/homology predictors
- Blast / Blat
- Synteny Viewer
- Cis-Elements (CisOrtho)
- orthology/homology predictors
Experiment tools
- e-PCR
- Balancers
- Transgene markers
Downloading WB Data
- 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
- Installing 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 -- More Info
- WormBase Newsletters
- WormBook Announcements - low volume
Glossary
FAQ
- What is WormBase?
- Machine/Browser compatibility
- What types of nematodes does WB collect data for?
- What types of information does WB contain?
- How are WormBase data organized?
- How does data get into WormBase?
- Can I view WormBase data offline?
- With what other formats are WB data compatible?
- Who are the worm community?
- Who are the WB database people?
- Who funds WB?
- Who do I contact if I want to submit data?
- Who do I contact if I see an error on the page?
- Who do I contact if WormBase stops working for me?
Internal Documentation
based on Reactome User's Guide