WormBase is an online bioinformatics database of the biology and genome of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes. It is used by the C. elegans research community both as an information resource and as a mode to publish and distribute their results. This collection references WormBase-accessioned entities.

Prefix

wormbase

Preferred Prefix

WormBase

Alternative Prefixes

WB WB_REF wb wormbase

Keywords

anatomy blast c elegans catalog database faseb list gene gene expression gene function gene mapping gene prediction geneotype genome genomic sequence genomics life science ortholog orthology assignment phenotype roundworm transposon family wormmart

Links

Homepage @wormbase

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Wormbase Gene should match this regular expression:
^WB[A-Z][a-z]+\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

WBGene00000001   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Wormbase Gene should match this regular expression:
^WormBase:WB[A-Z][a-z]+\d+$

Example CURIE

WormBase:WBGene00000001

Publications

• 2020 WormBase: a modern Model Organism Information Resource
• 2018 WormBase 2017: molting into a new stage
• https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:24194605
• 2011 Toward an interactive article: integrating journals and biological databases
• 2010 The BioGRID Interaction Database: 2011 update
• 2010 Localizing triplet periodicity in DNA and cDNA sequences
• 2010 Representing ontogeny through ontology: a developmental biologist's guide to the gene ontology
• 2009 The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements
• 2009 WormBase: a comprehensive resource for nematode research
• 2009 Semi-automated curation of protein subcellular localization: a text mining-based approach to Gene Ontology (GO) Cellular Component curation
• 2009 The Gene Ontology's Reference Genome Project: a unified framework for functional annotation across species
• 2008 nGASP--the nematode genome annotation assessment project
• https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:17991679
• https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:15608221
• 2001 WormBase: network access to the genome and biology of Caenorhabditis elegans

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

Global Biodata Coalition - Global Core Biodata Resources

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 15 mappings to external registries for this resource with 12 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE WormBase:WBGene00000001 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.