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- Katja Röper1,
- Valerie Wood2 &
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- Paul Nurse3
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Neil Hall
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Earlham Institute and ELIXIR-UK, Norwich, UK.
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Katja Röper
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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Valerie Wood
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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Paul Nurse
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Royal Society, London, UK.
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Many modern biology studies rely on curated databases that scientists hardly notice until they are gone. PomBase, the knowledge hub for the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, has lost its long-term support from UK funder Wellcome. Another knowledge portal, FlyBase — for research on Drosophila fruit flies — lost funding for its curation team when awards from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) were cut in 2025. And after a funding gap, the human gene-nomenclature database HGNC secured one NIH award in 2024.
Nature 656, 786 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02575-5
Competing Interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
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