The oral microbiota has an enormous impact on human health, with oral dysbiosis now
linked to many oral and systemic diseases. Recent advancements in sequencing, mass …

The exploration of biologically relevant chemical space for the discovery of small bioactive
molecules present in marine organisms has led not only to important advances in certain …

Abstract The 2023 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue contains 178 papers ranging
across biology and related fields. There are 90 papers reporting on new databases and 82 …

Undesired microbiota, such as filamentous fungi, negatively impacts the food sector leading
to huge losses of food produce. For this reason, preservatives are often used to reduce …

Advances in high-throughput technologies have enhanced our ability to describe microbial
communities as they relate to human health and disease. Alongside the growth in …

Abstract The Natural Products Magnetic Resonance Database (NP-MRD; https://np-mrd.
org) is a comprehensive, freely accessible, web-based resource for the deposition …

Predicting chemical function from structure is a major goal of the chemical sciences, from the
discovery and repurposing of novel drugs to the creation of new materials. Recently, new …

The integration of biomolecular modeling with natural language (BL) has emerged as a
promising interdisciplinary area at the intersection of artificial intelligence, chemistry and …

Chemistry is experiencing a paradigm shift in the way it interacts with data. So-called “big
data” are collected and used at unprecedented scales with the idea that algorithms can be …

The fundamental goal of small molecule discovery is to generate chemicals with target
functionality. While this often proceeds through structure-based methods, we set out to …