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WormBase: better software, richer content
1Division of Biology 156-29 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA 3Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine St Louis, MO 63108, USA 4Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA 5Sanger Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
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Received September 13, 2005. Revised October 6, 2005. Accepted October 6, 2005.
WormBase (http://wormbase.org), the public database for genomics and biology of Caenorhabditis elegans, has been restructured for stronger performance and expanded for richer biological content. Performance was improved by accelerating the loading of central data pages such as the omnibus Gene page, by rationalizing internal data structures and software for greater portability, and by making the Genome Browser highly customizable in how it views and exports genomic subsequences. Arbitrarily complex, user-specified queries are now possible through Textpresso (for all available literature) and through WormMart (for most genomic data). Biological content was enriched by reconciling all available cDNA and expressed sequence tag data with gene predictions, clarifying single nucleotide polymorphism and RNAi sites, and summarizing known functions for most genes studied in this organism.
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