CircTarget: a comprehensive database of circRNA–target RNA interactions across multiple cell types Abstract. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are stable, widespread regulatory molecules produced primarily by back-splicing of pre-mRNAs, with critical roles in gen

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The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection Abstract. The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue has 182 papers from across biology and neighbouring fields. Eighty-four of these papers describe n

From @danielrigden.bsky.social & @xosegb.bsky.social in an #Editorial in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience 🧬🖥️🧪🔓
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The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2026 Abstract. The Gene Ontology (GO) knowledgebase (https://geneontology.org) is a comprehensive resource describing the functions of genes. The GO knowledgeba

From the @geneontology.bsky.social team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #GO #Ontology #GeneOnlology #OpenData 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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RNAcentral in 2026: genes and literature integration Abstract. RNAcentral was founded in 2014 to serve as a comprehensive database of non-coding RNA sequences. It began by providing a single unified interface

From the @rnacentral.bsky.social team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | RNAcentral in 2026: genes and literature integration | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Genomics #RNA #ncRNA 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in 2026 Abstract. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides biomedical data resources including PubMed®, a repository of citations and abst

From Kim Pruitt & team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in 2026 | #Bioinformatics #OpenScience #Proteomics #Genomics #Education #Research #OpenData #OpenSource #NCBI 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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PDBe: enhanced structural data exploration to facilitate discovery Abstract. Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) is a founding member of the worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB), delivering open access to experimentally dete

From Sameer Velankar & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | PDBe: enhanced structural data exploration to facilitate discovery | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Proteomics #PDB 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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Expression Atlas in 2026: enabling FAIR and open expression data through community collaboration and integration Abstract. Expression Atlas (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gxa/home) is EMBL-EBI’s comprehensive knowledgebase for gene and protein expression across tissues, cell

From @pmadrigal.bsky.social @anilthanki.bsky.social + friends in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Expression Atlas in 2026: enabling #FAIR and open expression data through community collaboration and integration | #Bioinformatics #Database #Genomics 🧬🖥️🧪🔓
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eggNOG v7: phylogeny-based orthology predictions and functional annotations Abstract. The eggNOG (evolutionary genealogy of genes: Non-supervised Orthologous Groups) database is a phylogenomic resource for orthology inference, evol

From @jhcepas.bsky.social and colleagues in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | eggNOG v7: phylogeny-based orthology predictions and functional annotations | #Bioinformatics #ProteinCentric #Database #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️🧪🇨🇭🇪🇸🇩🇪🔓
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The European Nucleotide Archive in 2025 Abstract. The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena), hosted at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics I

From the @ebi.embl.org team published in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The European Nucleotide Archive in 2025 | #Bioinformatics #Database #FAIR #Proteomics #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenData #ENA #INSDC 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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JASPAR 2026: expansion of transcription factor binding profiles and integration of deep learning models Abstract. JASPAR (https://jaspar.elixir.no/) is an open-access database that has provided high-quality, manually curated, and non-redundant DNA binding pro

From @damlaob.bsky.social & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #JASPAR 2026: expansion of transcription factor binding profiles and integration of deep learning models | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Database #OpenScience #TFBS 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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ChEBI: re-engineered for a sustainable future Abstract. Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a high-quality, manually curated, and open-access database and ontology of chemical entities

From one of the @ebi.embl.org team, published in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | ChEBI: re-engineered for a sustainable future | #Bioinformatics #Database #Chemistry #OpenData #OpenScience #ChemicalEntitiesofBiologicalInterest 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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Ensembl 2026 Abstract. The Ensembl project (https://www.ensembl.org) is a public and open resource providing access to genomes, annotations, high-quality tools, and met

From the @ensembl.org team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Ensembl 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Genomics #37546Genomes #Ensembl 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 CC/ @ebi.embl.org
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Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses Abstract. Taxonomic classification underlies all biological science and is the basis for comparative analysis of biological organisms and therefore our und

From @elliot-bhm.bsky.social & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenData #Taxonomy #Proteomics #OpenScience #Genomics 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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From the @hgnc.bsky.social team in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Genenames.org : the #HGNC and #PGNC resources in 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Genomics #Proteomics #OpenData 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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DDBJ update in 2025: system integration for global data-sharing including pathogen surveillance Abstract. The Bioinformation and DNA Data Bank of Japan Center (https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/) continues to serve as a global core infrastructure for biologi

From the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #DDBJ update in 2025: system integration for global data-sharing including #pathogen surveillance | #Bioinformatics #Database #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenData 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 🇯🇵
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AlphaFold Protein Structure Database 2025: a redesigned interface and updated structural coverage Abstract. The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB; https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk), developed by EMBL–EBI and Google DeepMind, provides open access to

From Sameer Velankar & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #AlphaFold #Protein #Structure #Database 2025: a redesigned interface and updated structural coverage | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience #AFDB 🧪🔓 CC/ @ebi.embl.org
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MiMeDB 2.0: the Human Microbial Metabolome Database for 2026 Abstract. The Microbial Metabolome Database (MiMeDB) (https://mimedb.org) is a comprehensive, freely accessible resource linking human-associated microbes

From @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | MiMeDB 2.0: the Human Microbial Metabolome Database for 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Metabolomics #Database #OpenScience #Human 🧪🔓🇨🇦 CC/ @wishartnode.bsky.social
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The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2026 update Abstract. Now in its 25th year of operation, the UCSC Genome Browser (https://genome.ucsc.edu) provides a central location for researchers around the world

From the @genomebrowser.bsky.social team in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2026 update | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Database #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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The Reactome Knowledgebase 2026 Abstract. The Reactome Knowledgebase (https://reactome.org) is a freely accessible, expert-curated, open-source, and open-data resource that describes huma

From @gillespm.bsky.social and colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The #Reactome Knowledgebase 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #Human #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenSource #Database #GlobalCoreBiodata and @elixir-europe.org resource 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in 2025 Abstract. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is one of the world’s leading sources of public biomolec

From the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in 2025 | #Bioinformatics #OpenData #OpenScience #Proteomics #Genomics #Bioimaging 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓
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MassBank: an open and FAIR mass spectral data resource Abstract. The open spectral library MassBank (https://massbank.jp/) started in 2006 in Japan, as one of the first open source and open access cross-vendor

From @sneumann.bsky.social and colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | MassBank: an open and FAIR mass spectral data resource | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience #FAIR #Database 🧪🔓
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The ProteomeXchange consortium in 2026: making proteomics data FAIR Abstract. The ProteomeXchange consortium of proteomics resources (http://www.proteomexchange.org) was established to standardize open data practices in the

From the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | ProteomeXchange consortium in 2026: making proteomics data #FAIR | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience 🧪🔓
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