When scientific acronyms no longer need to mean anything at all, you get ZFIN (for Zebrafish Model Organism Database?). No, no, I kid—ZFIN stands for ZebraFish Information Network, and for that I ...

A new database promises to be an invaluable resource to scientists who use a unique single-celled fungus to study human diseases. The new database for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, ...

For every model organism whose genome is being sequenced, a community of researchers clamors for the data. Model organism databases often provide the necessary interface to such information, but they ...

Researchers at the IBB-UAB have developed the most comprehensive database available to date to help understand the basis of protein aggregation, a phenomenon associated with ageing and several ...

Nature uses a common framework when building organisms as different as yeast, worms, fruit flies, mice, and humans. This makes it possible for scientists to learn about how our own genes work by ...

The most comprehensive database for protein interaction information has been developed, including aggregation propensity analyses on the proteomic scale and the ability to compare species. Researchers ...