WormBook

This article is about the online review of nematode biology. For the fictional web serial, see Worm (web serial).
WormBook.org
The online review of C. elegans biology
Published2005
Website

WormBook is an open access, comprehensive collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters covering topics related to the biology of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). WormBook also includes WormMethods, an up-to-date collection of methods and protocols for C. elegans researchers.[1][2][3][4]

WormBook is the online text companion to WormBase,[5] the C. elegans model organism database. Capitalizing on the World Wide Web, WormBook links in-text references (e.g. genes, alleles, proteins, literature citations) with primary biological databases such as WormBase and PubMed. C. elegans was the first multicellular organism to have its genome sequenced[6] and is a model organism for studying developmental genetics and neurobiology.

Contents

The content of WormBook is categorized into the sections listed below, each filled with a variety of relevant chapters. These sections include:

References

  1. ^ "The WormBook website". wormbook.org.
  2. ^ White, John Graham (2013). "Getting into the mind of a worm—a personal view". WormBook: 1–10. doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.158.1. PMC 4781474. PMID 23801597. Open access icon
  3. ^ Corsi, Ann K. (2015). "A Transparent window into biology: A primer on Caenorhabditis elegans". WormBook: 1–31. doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.177.1. ISSN 1551-8507. PMC 4781331. PMID 26087236.
  4. ^ Greenwald, I. (2016). "WormBook: WormBiology for the 21st Century". Genetics. 202 (3): 883–884. doi:10.1534/genetics.116.187575. ISSN 0016-6731. PMC 4788125. PMID 26953267.
  5. ^ Howe, Kevin L.; Bolt, Bruce J.; Cain, Scott; Chan, Juancarlos; Chen, Wen J.; Davis, Paul; Done, James; Down, Thomas; Gao, Sibyl; Grove, Christian; Harris, Todd W.; Kishore, Ranjana; Lee, Raymond; Lomax, Jane; Li, Yuling; Muller, Hans-Michael; Nakamura, Cecilia; Nuin, Paulo; Paulini, Michael; Raciti, Daniela; Schindelman, Gary; Stanley, Eleanor; Tuli, Mary Ann; Van Auken, Kimberly; Wang, Daniel; Wang, Xiaodong; Williams, Gary; Wright, Adam; Yook, Karen; Berriman, Matthew; Kersey, Paul; Schedl, Tim; Stein, Lincoln; Sternberg, Paul W. (2016). "WormBase 2016: expanding to enable helminth genomic research". Nucleic Acids Research. 44 (D1): D774 – D780. doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1217. PMC 4702863. PMID 26578572. Open access icon
  6. ^ The C. elegans Sequencing Consortium (1998). "Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: A platform for investigating biology". Science. 282 (5396): 2012–2018. Bibcode:1998Sci...282.2012.. doi:10.1126/science.282.5396.2012. PMID 9851916.
  7. ^ Hodgkin, Jonathan (2005). "Introduction to genetics and genomics". WormBook. doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.17.1.
  8. ^ Greenwald, Iva (2005). "Introduction to signal transduction". WormBook. doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.20.1.
  9. ^ Herman, Robert (2005). "Introduction to sex determination". WormBook. doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.71.1.
  10. ^ Hubbard, E. Jane (2005). "Introduction to the germ line". WormBook: 1–4. doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.18.1. PMC 4781435. PMID 18050415.
  11. ^ Fitch, David H.A. (2005). "Introduction to nematode evolution and ecology". WormBook: 1–8. doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.19.1. PMC 4781023. PMID 18050395.