West Coast Worm Meeting Abstracts - Caenorhabditis elegans ...

West Coast Worm Meeting 2000
WORMBASE: FROM ACEDB TO A MORE COMPLETE AND
USABLE DATABASE
Paul W. Sternberg, Erich Schwarz, Norma Foltz, WormBase
Consortium
Division of Biology 156-29, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
We briefly describe the current status and plans for WormBase, initially an extension of the existing
ACeDB database with a new user interface. The WormBase consortium includes the team that developed
ACeDB (Richard Durbin and colleagues at the Sanger Centre; Jean Thierry-Mieg and colleagues at
Montpellier); Lincoln Stein and colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor, who developed the current web
interface for WormBase; and John Spieth and colleagues at the Genome Sequencing Center at
Washington University, who along with the Sanger Centre team, continue to annotate the genomic
sequence. The Caltech group will curate new data including cell function in development, behavior and
physiology, gene expression at a cellular level, and gene interactions. Data will be extracted from the
literature, as well as by community submission. We look forward to providing the C. elegans and broader
research community easy access to vast quantities of high quality data on C. elegans. Also, we welcome
your suggestions and criticism at any time. WormBase can be accessed at www.wormbase.org.
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