It supports the international research community by providing a centralized, integrated web based resource to access the diverse and rich, functional genomics data of echinoderm evolution, development and gene regulatory networks.

Partial support provides BLAST, JBrowse, and download options, but no gene page integration.

[2] Its virtual machines are running in a VMware vSphere environment on two servers, with automatic load balancing and fault tolerance.

Tabs beyond the summary provide gene specific literature, transcripts, expression data, protein sequences and interactants.

Literature on Echinobase is collected by automatically searching published papers using echinoderm query terms and retrieved articles are then manually curated.