2016 Database Issue
The 2016 Database Issue features the description of 174 papers describing both new and updated biological databases. A number of papers deal with resources on non-coding RNAs and their interactions, molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acid structure, and super-enhancers. The protein database section features important updates on Pfam, PDBe and PRIDE , as well as resources on pathways, metabolomics and metabolic modeling. This issue includes updates on popular metagenomics resources, such as MG-RAST, EBI Metagenomics, and probeBASE, as well as a newly compiled Human Pan-Microbe Communities database. A significant fraction of the databases are dedicated to the genetic basis of disease, primarily cancer, and various aspects of drug research. A further six papers present updated databases of various antimicrobial and anticancer peptides.
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