Tools
WormBase offers many ways of searching and retrieving data from the database:
- WormMart - a tool for retrieving varied information on many genes (or the sequences of those genes). This is the WormBase implementation of BioMart.
- Genome Browser - browse the genes of C. elegans (and other species) in their genomic context
- TextPresso - a search tool that queries published C. elegans literature (including meeting abstracts)
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