Several decades ago, scientists started to set up biological data collections for the centralized management of and easy access to experimental results, and to ensure long-term data availability (Fig.

A rethink is needed on the "dire" situation of funding of databases across biology, researchers say. A new article reviews the business models currently used to deal with long-term sustainability of ...

The increasing availability of data related to genes, proteins and their modulation by small molecules has provided a vast amount of biological information leading to the emergence of systems biology ...

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