1. WormBase 2017: molting into a new stage
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Mary Ann Tuli, Todd W. Harris, Ranjana Kishore, Paul Davis, Raymond Lee, Lincoln Stein, Tim Schedl, Kevin L. Howe, Paul W. Sternberg, Adam Wright, Gary Williams, Qinghua Wang, Faye H. Rodgers, Gary Schindelman, Matthew Berriman, Daniela Raciti, Hans-Michael Müller, Christian A. Grove, Sibyl Gao, Juancarlos Chan, Paulo A. S. Nuin, Valerio Arnaboldi, Matthew Russell, Michael Paulini, Cecilia Nakamura, Scott Cain, Kimberly Van Auken, Wen J. Chen, Karen Yook, and Paul J. Kersey
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0301 basic medicine ,Nematoda ,Process (engineering) ,Datasets as Topic ,Information Storage and Retrieval ,Biology ,Ontology (information science) ,Web Browser ,Bioinformatics ,Genome ,World Wide Web ,03 medical and health sciences ,User-Computer Interface ,0302 clinical medicine ,Databases, Genetic ,Genetics ,Database Issue ,Animals ,Data Mining ,Humans ,Caenorhabditis elegans ,Data Curation ,Publishing ,Data curation ,biology.organism_classification ,Disease Models, Animal ,030104 developmental biology ,Gene Ontology ,Platyhelminths ,Scalability ,Caenorhabditis ,RNA Interference ,WormBase ,Sequence Alignment ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Forecasting - Abstract
WormBase (http://www.wormbase.org) is an important knowledge resource for biomedical researchers worldwide. To accommodate the ever increasing amount and complexity of research data, WormBase continues to advance its practices on data acquisition, curation and retrieval to most effectively deliver comprehensive knowledge about Caenorhabditis elegans, and genomic information about other nematodes and parasitic flatworms. Recent notable enhancements include user-directed submission of data, such as micropublication; genomic data curation and presentation, including additional genomes and JBrowse, respectively; new query tools, such as SimpleMine, Gene Enrichment Analysis; new data displays, such as the Person Lineage browser and the Summary of Ontology-based Annotations. Anticipating more rapid data growth ahead, WormBase continues the process of migrating to a cutting-edge database technology to achieve better stability, scalability, reproducibility and a faster response time. To better serve the broader research community, WormBase, with five other Model Organism Databases and The Gene Ontology project, have begun to collaborate formally as the Alliance of Genome Resources.
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- 2018