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The Automated Single-Cell Analysis Portal (ASAP) web site has been updated to improve user experience. Try it now to analyze your data!

The ModelArchive developers, along with other SIB groups and collaborators, have just published an update to the ModelCIF data format. This format is used by the archive, as well as other modelling services and repositories.

There are around a billion cases of seasonal influenza (flu) annually, including 3–5 million cases of severe illness. The WHO uses real-time tracking of influenza lineage evolution by Nextstrain to make recommendations.

The latest update to OrthoDB significantly enhances its global coverage of genomic diversity. The BUSCO tool has also undergone a major update. Read about it here! 

The first release of 2026 of the Rhea database is out! Release 140 (2026-01-28) contains 18,343 unique reactions and 15,125 unique reaction participants.

Nextstrain has released continually updated genomic surveillance data for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). TB is a major global health issue, causing more deaths around the world than any other infectious disease (WHO 2024).

ELIXIR Core Data Resources (CDRs) are European data resources judged to be of fundamental importance to the wider life-science community and the long-term preservation of biological data. SIB is proud to announce that Bgee, OMA and OrthoDB, have been selected as CDRs!

Interested in environmental or host-associated microbial communities? The mOTUs online database provides web-accessible genomic context to taxonomic profiling of microbial communities. Read about it here!