News - NBDC 2026-04-09T01:46:02Z Department of NBDC Program https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/atom.xml A paper on Microbiome Datahub, an integrated database that collects and curates genome sequences derived from metagenomic analyses of environmental microorganisms, has been published - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20260409-01.html 2026-04-09T01:37:46Z Dr. Hiroshi Mori, Associate Professor of National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Research Organization of Information and Systems, and his colleagues published a paper in the advance online edition of the scientific journal "Microbiome" describing the development of "Microbiome Datahub", an integrated database created by comprehensively collecting metagenomic genome sequences (MAG: Metagenome-Assembled Genomes) derived from analysis of microorganisms in the environment from public nucleotide sequence repositories, and adding various information such as environment, phylogeny, and gene function on Mar 16, 2026. Notice regarding the "NBDC Human Database," "NBDC Group Shared Database," "RDF Portal," and "TogoVar" - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20260401-03.html 2026-04-01T07:47:35Z Starting April 1, 2026, the "NBDC Human Database (including NBDC Group Sharing Database)," "RDF Portal," and "TogoVar" will be operated under MEXT's Life Science Research Infrastructure Development Program. This change will not affect the services. Announcement: Organizational change (Apr 2026) - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20260401-01.html 2026-04-01T06:34:39Z As of 1 April 2026, the Office of NBDC Program, Department for Information Infrastructure has been reorganized into the Office of NBDC Program, Department of Information Services. Announcement: Revision of Site Policies (Apr 2026) - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20260401-02.html 2026-04-01T02:26:09Z Following organizational change, we have revised our Site Policies effective Apr 1, 2026. Plant co-expression database "ATTED-II" update: plant species has been expanded to 19 species - 20 lineages, and a new inter-species comparative analysis tool has been implemented - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20260313-01.html 2026-03-13T01:29:57Z On Feb 18, 2026, Professor Takeshi Obayashi and his colleagues at the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University updated the plant gene co-expression database "ATTED-II" to v13, expanding the number of plant species containing co-expression information to 19 species - 20 lineages, and implementing a new analytical tool for comparing co-expression relationships across species. Using Microbiome Datahub, a tool called "AutoFixMark" has been developed to accurately predict the presence or absence of CO₂ fixation pathways in chemoautotrophic bacteria from their genomes - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20260213-01.html 2026-02-13T01:37:22Z On Feb 11, 2026, Associate Professor Mori Hiroshi of the National Institute of Genetics and his colleagues published a paper in the international scientific journal Scientific Data announcing their development of "AutoFixMark," a tool for highly accurate prediction of the presence or absence of CO₂ fixation pathways in chemolithoautotrophic bacteria from their genomes using Microbiome Datahub that they are developing. DeepSpaceDB ver.2.0, a spatial transcriptomics database, has been released and newly includes high-resolution Xenium data - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20260123-01.html 2026-01-23T05:46:06Z On Jan 16, 2026, DeepSpaceDB ver. 2.0, a spatial transcriptomics database developed by Associate Professor VANDENBON Alexis and his colleagues at the Institute of Medical and Biological Sciences, Kyoto University, was released, adding new high-resolution Xenium data. The Joint Open Genome and Omics Platform (JoGo), the world's first database containing haplotypes covering all human genes, has been released - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20251210-01.html 2025-12-10T08:39:14Z On Nov 29, 2025, Professor Masaaki Nagasaki at Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University and his colleagues announced the release of the Joint Open Genome and Omics Platform (JoGo), a database containing a comprehensive haplotype catalog of human genes, in a special database issue of the scientific journal "Nucleic Acids Research." This article was selected as a breakthrough article in this isssue. A paper was published on ProteomeXchange, the international consortium for proteomics resources - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20251127-02.html 2025-11-27T09:32:58Z On Nov 11, 2025, a paper on the metabolome database "MassBank" was published in the Database Issue of the scientific journal "Nucleic Acids Research." Shin-MassBank was mentioned in a paper published on the metabolome database MassBank - NBDC https://biosciencedbc.jp/en/news/20251127-01.html 2025-11-27T05:50:19Z On Nov 11, 2025, a paper on the metabolome database "MassBank" was published in the Database Issue of the scientific journal "Nucleic Acids Research."