Worm Base - Contents

Contents

WormBase comprises the following main data sets:

• The annotated genomes of Caenorhabditis elegans, Caenorhabditis briggsae, Caenorhabditis remanei, Caenorhabditis brenneri, Caenorhabditis angaria, Pristionchus pacificus, Haemonchus contortus, Meloidogyne hapla, Meloidogyne incognita, and Brugia malayi;
• Hand-curated annotations describing the function of ~20,500 C. elegans protein-coding genes and ~16,000 C. elegans non-coding genes;
• Gene families;
• Orthologies;
• Genomic transcription factor binding sites
• Comprehensive information on mutant alleles and their phenotypes;
• Whole-genome RNAi (RNA interference) screens;
• Genetic maps, markers and polymorphisms;
• The C. elegans physical map;
• Gene expression profiles (stage, tissue and cell) from microarrays, SAGE analysis and GFP promoter fusions;
• The complete cell lineage of the worm;
• The wiring diagram of the worm nervous system;
• Protein-protein interaction Interactome data;
• Genetic regulatory relationships;
• Details of intra- and inter-specific sequence homologies (with links to other model organism databases).

In addition, WormBase contains an up-to-date searchable bibliography of C. elegans research and is linked to the WormBook project.