Xenbase - The Xenopus laevis and X. tropicalis resource
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.
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 Citing Xenbase page.
Current Xenbase Staff
Peter Vize, Aaron Zorn, Brad Arshinoff, Praneet Chaturvedi, Stanley Chu, Malcolm Fisher, Christina James-Zorn, Kamran Karimi, Eugene Kim, Vaneet Lotay, Mardi Nenni, Troy Pells, Virgilio Ponferrada, Erik Segerdell, Nivitha Sundararaj, Dong Zhuo Wang, Ying Wang
Staff Photo

Former Xenbase Staff
Elizabeth Wilke, Joshua Fortriede, Kevin A. Burns, Nadia Bayyari, 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
- J. Michael Cherry, Stanford University, CA, USA
- Richard Harland, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Rebecca Heald, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Douglas Houston, University of Iowa, IA, USA
- Anna Philpott, University of Cambridge, UK
- Joel Richardson, MGI/The Jackson Laboratory, ME, USA
- Amy Sater, University of Houston, TX, USA
- Monte Westerfield, ZFIN/University of Oregon, WA, USA
NIH Program Officer
James Coulombe, 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, co-PI
- 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
- Peter Vize: images
- Aaron Zorn: libraries and protocols