The 2024 Nucleic Acids Research database issueãnd the online molecular biology database collection

Abstract

The 2024 Nucleic Acids Research database issue contains 180 papers fromãcross biologyãnd neighbouring disciplines. Thereãre 90 papers reporting on new databasesãnd 83 updates from resources previously published in the Issue. Updates from databases most recently published else whereãccount f orã further se v en. Nucleicãcid databases include the new NAKB for str uct ural informationãnd updates from Genbank, ENA, GEO, Tarbaseãnd JASPAR. The Issue's Breakthrough Article concerns NMPFãmsDB f or no v el prokary otic protein fãmiliesãnd the AlphaFold Protein Str uct ure Datãbase hasãn importãnt update. Metãbolism is co v ered b y updates from R eactome, Wikipathwã y sãnd Metabolights. Microbesãre co v ered b y R efSeq, UNI TE, SPIREãnd P10K; viruses b y ViralZoneãnd PhageScope. Medically -oriented databases include the familiar COSMIC, Drugbankãnd TTD. Genomics-related resources include Ensembl, UCSC Genome Browserãnd Monarch. Ne wãrrivãls co v er plant imaging (OPIAãnd PlantPAD)ãnd crop plants (SoyMD, TCODãnd CropGS-Hub). The entire Database Issue is freelyã vãilable online on the Nucleic Acids Research website ( https://ãcademic.oup.com/ nar ). Over the last year the NAR online Molecular Biology Database Collection has been updated, re vie wing 1060 entries,ãdding 97 new resourcesãnd eliminating 388 discontinued URLs bringing the current total to 1959 databases. It isã vãilableãt http://www.o xf ordjournals.org/nar/database/c/.