WoRMS provides deeplinks to external databases which hold relevant expert-validated species information. Now over 31.000 taxa in WoRMS have a direct link to the sequence data in GenBank, and in return GenBank links back to the specific taxon pages in WoRMS.

GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences, hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA (NCBI).

For example: Asterias rubens Linneaus, 1758

WoRMS: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123776
GenBank: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=7604&lvl=0

If you are interested in adding links to the species pages on your website, or if you want to link your species pages with WoRMS, please contact us at info@marinespecies.org.

If you would like to curate links from the NCBI pages to your website, contact linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.