Database Resources of the National Genomics Data Center, China National Center for Bioinformation in 2021
CNCB-NGDC Members and Partners, Yongbiao Xue, Yiming Bao, Zhang Zhang, Wenming Zhao, Jingfa Xiao, Shunmin He, Guoqing Zhang, Yixue Li, Guoping Zhao, Runsheng Chen, Shuhui Song, Lina Ma, Dong Zou, Dongmei Tian, Cuiping Li, Junwei Zhu, Zheng Gong, Meili Chen, Anke Wang, Yingke Ma, Mengwei Li, Xufei Teng, Ying Cui, Guangya Duan, Mochen Zhang, Tong Jin, Cheng‐Min Shi, Zhenglin Du, Yadong Zhang, Chuandong Liu, Rujiao Li, Jingyao Zeng, Lili Hao, Shuai Jiang, Hua Chen, Dali Han, Jingfa Xiao, Zhang Zhang, Wenming Zhao, Yongbiao Xue, Yiming Bao, Tao Zhang, Wang Kang, Fei Yang, Jing Qu, Weiqi Zhang, Yīmíng Bào, Guang‐Hui Liu, Lin Liu, Yang Zhang, Guangyi Niu, Tongtong Zhu, Changrui Feng, Xiaonan Liu, Yuansheng Zhang, Li Zhao, Ruru Chen, Qianpeng Li, Xufei Teng, Lina Ma, Zhongyi Hua, Dongmei Tian, Chao Jiang, Ziyuan Chen, Fangshu He, Yuyang Zhao, Yan Jin, Zhang Zhang, Luqi Huang, Shuhui Song, Yuan Yuan, Chenfen Zhou, Qingwei Xu, Sheng He, Wei Ye, Ruifang Cao, Pengyu Wang, Yunchao Ling, Xing Yan, Qingzhong Wang, Guoqing Zhang, Li Zhao, Lin Liu, Shuai Jiang, Qianpeng Li, Changrui Feng, Qiang Du, Lina Ma, Wenting Zong, Hongen Kang, Mochen Zhang, Zhuang Xiong, Rujiao Li, Wendi Huan, Yunchao Ling, Sirui Zhang, Qiguang Xia, Ruifang Cao, Xiaojuan Fan
Abstract
The National Genomics Data Center (NGDC), part of the China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB), provides a suite of database resources to support worldwide research activities in both academia and industry. With the explosive growth of multi-omics data, CNCB-NGDC is continually expanding, updating and enriching its core database resources through big data deposition, integration and translation. In the past year, considerable efforts have been devoted to 2019nCoVR, a newly established resource providing a global landscape of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences, variants, and haplotypes, as well as Aging Atlas, BrainBase, GTDB (Glycosyltransferases Database), LncExpDB, and TransCirc (Translation potential for circular RNAs). Meanwhile, a series of resources have been updated and improved, including BioProject, BioSample, GWH (Genome Warehouse), GVM (Genome Variation Map), GEN (Gene Expression Nebulas) as well as several biodiversity and plant resources. Particularly, BIG Search, a scalable, one-stop, cross-database search engine, has been significantly updated by providing easy access to a large number of internal and external biological resources from CNCB-NGDC, our partners, EBI and NCBI. All of these resources along with their services are publicly accessible at https://bigd.big.ac.cn.