WormBook: the online review of Caenorhabditis elegans biology

Creators: Girard, Lisa R.; Fiedler, Tristan J.; Harris, Todd W.; Carvalho, Felicia; Antoshechkin, Igor; Han, Michael; Sternberg, Paul W.; Stein, Lincoln D.; Chalfie, Martin

Abstract

WormBook (www.wormbook.org) is an open-access, online collection of original, peer-reviewed chapters on the biology of Caenorhabditis elegans and related nematodes. Since WormBook was launched in June 2005 with 12 chapters, it has grown to over 100 chapters, covering nearly every aspect of C.elegans research, from Cell Biology and Neurobiology to Evolution and Ecology. WormBook also serves as the text companion to WormBase, the C.elegans model organism database. Objects such as genes, proteins and cells are linked to the relevant pages in WormBase, providing easily accessible background information. Additionally, WormBook chapters contain links to other relevant topics in WormBook, and the in-text citations are linked to their abstracts in PubMed and full-text references, if available. Since WormBook is online, its chapters are able to contain movies and complex images that would not be possible in a print version. WormBook is designed to keep up with the rapid pace of discovery in the field of C.elegans research and continues to grow. WormBook represents a generic publishing infrastructure that is easily adaptable to other research communities to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge in the field.

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© 2006 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Received August 14, 2006; Revised October 9, 2006; Accepted October 10, 2006. Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on November 11, 2006. We would like to thank the members of WormBase for helpful discussions and assistance. Funding for WormBook has been provided by a grant to WormBase from the US National Human Genome Research Institute (P41 HG02223), the Genetics Society, the Society for Developmental Biology, as well as the generous support of the editors of C.elegans II. Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by a grant to WormBase from the US National Human Genome Research Institute (P41 HG02223).

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