Shoman LM et al. (1995) Methods Cell Biol "The Worm Community System, release 2.0 (WCSr2)."

Grossman E, Jamison DC, Powell K, Schatz BR, Shoman LM

[Methods Cell Biol, 1995]

The Worm Community System (WCS) is a digital library that contains knowledge about Caenorhabditis elegans, and a software environment that enables the user to interact with the community library across the international computer network, the Internet. The functions of the software environment enable the user to browse, search, and retrieve the existing knowledge of the community. In addition, users may add data and literature to the library for timely dissemination to the research community and for private collaboration with colleagues at local or remote sites. This capacity for dynamically updating information should help to better propagate knowledge across the community. This chapter provides a survey of the system's history, features, and requirements, and describes basic uses of the system.