| WormBase is the major public online database resource for the _Caenorhabditis_ research community. The database was developed primarily for the nematode _C. elegans_ but expanded to host genomes and biological data from other closely related nematode species including _C. briggsae_, _C. remanei_, _C. brenneri_, _C. japonica_ and _Pristionchus pacificus_. WormBase has developed tools to mine the data held within the database and compare the hosted species. Over the years we have developed a variety of curation pipelines which often begin in a "first-pass" literature curation step. This involves a brief overview of the literature before directing it to specialised data curators who extract all relevant information. Curators focus on... |
