Everything about Tz database

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Tz databaseA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: KEGG: biological systems database as a model of the real worldInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Bowker's Complete Video Directory 1999: Volume 2: Entertainment T-Z (Volume 2: Entertainment T-Z)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programsCited 61,584 times
5. Go sideways: Time in GermanyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Time in BotswanaA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs

  S. Altschul · 1997 · Nucleic Acids Research · 61,584 citations

• The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

  Christian Quast, Elmar Pruesse, Pelin Yilmaz · 2012 · Nucleic Acids Research · 30,917 citations

• The Molecular Signatures Database Hallmark Gene Set Collection

  Arthur Liberzon, Chet Birger, Helga Thorvaldsdóttir · 2015 · Cell Systems · 14,406 citations

• The STRING database in 2023: protein–protein association networks and functional enrichment analyses for any sequenced genome of interest

  Damian Szklarczyk, Rebecca Kirsch, Mikaela Koutrouli · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 10,496 citations

• The Cambridge Structural Database: a quarter of a million crystal structures and rising

  Frank H. Allen · 2002 · Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science · 9,900 citations

• Greengenes, a Chimera-Checked 16S rRNA Gene Database and Workbench Compatible with ARB

  T. Z. DeSantis, P. Hugenholtz, N. Larsen · 2006 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 9,696 citations

• The Cambridge Structural Database

  Colin R. Groom, Ian J. Bruno, Matthew P. Lightfoot · 2016 · Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials · 9,657 citations

• Bond-valence parameters obtained from a systematic analysis of the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database

  I. D. Brown, D. Altermatt · 1985 · Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science · 8,984 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• KEGG: biological systems database as a model of the real world

  Minoru Kanehisa, Miho Furumichi, Yoko Sato · 2024 · Nucleic Acids Research · 3,105 citations

• CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

  Brian P Alcock, William Huynh, Romeo Chalil · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 2,664 citations

• The PRIDE database at 20 years: 2025 update

  Yasset Perez-Riverol, Chakradhar Bandla, Deepti J Kundu · 2024 · Nucleic Acids Research · 2,579 citations

• The HITRAN2020 molecular spectroscopic database

  I.E. Gordon, L.S. Rothman, R.J. Hargreaves · 2022 · Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer · 2,483 citations

• GTDB-Tk v2: memory friendly classification with the genome taxonomy database

  Pierre-Alain Chaumeil, Aaron J Mussig, Philip Hugenholtz · 2022 · Bioinformatics · 2,374 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Bowker's Complete Video Directory 1999: Volume 2: Entertainment T-Z (Volume 2: Entertainment T-Z)R.R. Bowker's Database Publishing Group · 1999

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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