Did you know that WormBase provides useful data files for download?

WormBase maintains a public FTP site where you can find many commonly requested files and datasets, the WormBase software and prepackaged databases. DNA sequence data for the genomes of C. elegans, C. briggsae, C. remanei, etc., are available in FASTA format, as is protein data.  Microarray data like the up-to-date mapping of microarray probes to WormBase genes for Affymetrix, Agilent, Washington University Genome Sequencing Center and Stanford Microarray Database (SMD) chips, is also made available.  For C. elegans, the following files are down-loadable from the FTP site: confirmed_genes — which lists curated C. elegans genes that have been confirmed by transcriptional data; wormpep — FASTA-format files containing predicted and confirmed protein translations, and many other files.

Take a look at our FTP site at ftp://ftp.wormbase.org/pub/wormbase/.  Be sure to look at the README file in each directory for a listing of the contents of that directory.

Genomes in WormBase

In addition to C. elegans, WormBase provides several resources for viewing and obtaining genome information for different worm species. WormBase classifies genomes in various tiers depending on the amount of curation effort it is able to spend on maintaining them.  For a description of the various genomes either in, or coming to WormBase, their current status and the resources available for each, please visit http://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/WormBase_Genomes.