Paper Info
Title
WormBook: the online review of Caenorhabditis elegans biology.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1093/nar/gkl894
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
cell biology,internet
Computer software,World Wide Web,WormBook,Biology,Database construction,Database optimization,Caenorhabditis elegans,WormBase,Bioinformatics,Genetics,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
Database-Issue
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
1.20
2
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lisa R. Girard12211.66
Tristan J Fiedler29919.54
Todd W Harris337764.33
Felicia Carvalho471.20
Igor Antoshechkin521841.29
Michael Han610011.64
Paul W Sternberg7739118.90
Lincoln D. Stein81555247.25
Martin Chalfie971.20