Databases Fight NIH Funding Cuts

September 6, 2012

September 6, 2012 | In the era of ‘big data’, it is a bitter blow for scientists to lose access to the online tools they use to analyse and share terabytes of information. Yet funding cuts by the US National Library of Medicine are threatening five widely used biological databases -- Protégé, BioMagResBank, Repbase, REBASE, and CASP. User communities are now rallying to save them. Nature