Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses ACeDB (A Caenorhabditis elegans Data Base) and Macace. ACeDB is a data management and display system that contains a wide range of genomic and other information about C. elegans. This chapter provides an overview of ACeDB for the C. elegans user, focusing in particular on the Macintosh version Macace. This chapter describes methods to obtain ACeDB and documentation for it, ways to access and use the information in ACeDB, and examines the use of ACeDB as a laboratory-based data managing system. ACeDB is distributed primarily by anonymous file transfer program (ftp), which allows users to copy the database onto their own local computer. As a result, people can have full rapid access to all the data but they must have powerful computing systems and a non-negligible amount of hard disk space. Updates are released periodically and are announced via an e-mail mailing list and through the ACeDB and C. elegans news groups. For the UNIX version, these updates can be obtained by anonymous ftp and added to the local database by a simple command inside ACeDB. During every update, the Macintosh version is typically recopied in its entirety.
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