WormBase (https://wormbase.org/) is a mature Model Organism Information Resource 
supporting researchers using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model 
system for studies across a broad range of basic biological processes. Toward 
this mission, WormBase efforts are arranged in three primary facets: curation, 
user interface and architecture. In this update, we describe progress in each of 
these three areas. In particular, we discuss the status of literature curation 
and recently added data, detail new features of the web interface and options 
for users wishing to conduct data mining workflows, and discuss our efforts to 
build a robust and scalable architecture by leveraging commercial cloud 
offerings. We conclude with a description of WormBase's role as a founding 
member of the nascent Alliance of Genome Resources.