Xenbase - The Xenopus Model Organism Knowledgebase.

Xenbase's mission is to provide the international research community with a comprehensive, integrated and easy to use web based resource that gives access the diverse and rich genomic, expression and functional data available from Xenopus research. Xenbase also provides a critical data sharing infrastructure for many other NIH-funded projects, and is a focal point for the Xenopus community. In addition to our primary goal of supporting Xenopus researchers, Xenbase enhances the availability and visibility of Xenopus data to the broader biomedical research community.

Supported Organisms

Full support: Xenbase's primary mission is to provide comprehensive support for the following frogs:

• Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog)
• Xenopus tropicalis (Western clawed frog)

Partial support: Xenbase provides BLAST, JBrowse genome viewing, and data download support for the following amphibians:

• Ambystoma mexicanum (Axolotl)
• Rana catesbeiana (American bullfrog)
• Nanorana parkeri (High Himalaya frog)
• Hymenochirus boettgeri (Zaire or Congo dwarf clawed frog)

Funding

We are supported by NICHD P41 HD064556 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The contents of the Xenbase website are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

Previous financial support from the National Science Foundation (IBN 9630621 and 9983061 to PDV), the Wellcome Trust (UK), the BBSRC (UK), the Alberta Network for Proteomics Innovation (ANPI), awards from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD045776 and P41 HD064556) were critical in building and maintaining this resource.

Copyright Notices

The name Xenbase ® is a registered trademark.

The copyright of all Xenbase content, including, but not limited to, images, movies, video tutorials, graphs, diagrams and text, belongs to Xenbase or with the individuals who submitted the data or the publisher and/or authors of the work.

Images on Xenbase ® from copyrighted publications are used with permission of the publisher and/or copyright holder. Xenbase users must independently seek permission to reuse copyrighted images in their own work.

Images and data reproduced from Open Access sources are used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

Xenbase Publications

A list of Xenbase publications can be found on the Cite Xenbase page.

Current Xenbase Staff

Peter Vize, Aaron Zorn, Brad Arshinoff, Andrew Bell, Stanley Chu, Malcolm Fisher, Christina James-Zorn, Kamran Karimi, Vaneet Lotay, Ngoc Ly, Boluwatife Osifalujo, Troy Pells, Virgilio Ponferrada, Erik Segerdell, Dong Zhuo Wang

Staff Photo

Former Xenbase Staff

Sedat Demiriz, Vy Ngo, Nadia Bayyari, Nivitha Sundararaj, Eugene Kim, Praneet Chaturvedi, Mardi Nenni, Ying Wang, Elizabeth Wilke, Joshua Fortriede, Kevin A. Burns, Vicente Pader, Shraddha Kadam, Yu Liu, Brad Karpinka, Jacqueline Lee, Jeff Bowes, Chris Jarabek, Kevin Snyder, Lea Randall, Bishnu Bhattacharyya, Vivien Junker, Kenan Azam, Bianca Maters, Angela Fan, Ross Gibb, Etienne Noumen.

External Advisory Board

• Douglas Houston, University of Iowa, USA
• Anne E. Kwitek, RGD/Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
• Soeren Lienkamp, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Karen Liu, King's College London, UK
• Laura Anne Lowery, Boston University, USA
• Ann Miller, University of Michigan, USA
• Joel Richardson, MGI/The Jackson Laboratory, USA
• Monte Westerfield, ZFIN/University of Oregon, USA
• Andrea Wills, University of Washington, USA

NIH Program Officer

Kathryn Stein, NICHD

Terms & Conditions of Use

We ask users of Xenbase to comply with the following terms and conditions:

• Data are to be used only for purposes of research and education. Commercial use is prohibited without written permission from Xenbase.
• By submitting images and data to Xenbase, you give Xenbase permission to re-display these images on any page of the website.
• Xenbase has permission of the publisher and/or copyright holder to redisplay many published images. Xenbase users must independently seek permission to reuse copyrighted images in their own work.
• The contributor(s) of unpublished data should be explicitly acknowledged in any publication that incorporates, or is based in part or entirely on these data.
• Xenbase should be explicitly acknowledged when data used in any publication, has been in part or solely derived from analysis of data from this website.
• Xenbase users may register to set-up personal pages, lab pages, and post job ads on the Community jobs board. Any misuse of this resource will result in IP address associated with misuse being blocked. Academic Institutions and relevant authorities will be notified accordingly.

Content Contributors

Xenbase thanks the following people for submitting additional content and help authoring some of the original Xenbase pages.

• Enrique Amaya: transgenics
• Bruce Blumberg: former editor of Xine
• Mike Danilchik: movies
• Paul Gordon: Magpie, blastin'
• Mike Gilchrist: genomics
• Jeremy Green: digital atlas
• Mike Klymkowski, cytoskeleton
• Nicolas Pollet: gene expression
• Leon Peskin: transcriptome graphs
• Anna Philpott: cell cycle, antibodies
• Christoph Sensen: blastin'
• Sandra Kolker and Dan Weeks: heart atlas
• Grant Wheeler: microRNA ISH images
• Aldo Ciau-Uitz: ISH images from angiogenesis screen
• Muriel Perron: ISH images from retinal screen
• Soeren Lienkamp: ISH images from pronephric screen
• Daniella Raciti and André Brändli: ISH images from pronephric screen
• J.J. Henry- ISH images
• Dominque Alfandari- antibodies
• Natalya Zahn: illustrations , the X. laevis developmental series
• NXR and EXRC- images and descriptions of transgenic and mutant lines
• Peter Vize: images
• Aaron Zorn: libraries and protocols