The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection

The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue has 182 papers from across biology and neighbouring fields. Eighty-four of these papers describe new databases, while 86 are updates on databases that have previously appeared here. Twelve more papers cover databases most recently published elsewhere. New nucleic acid databases include NapRNAdb for noncapped RNA and GlycoRNAdb. Protein structure is covered by updates from wwPDB members and the AlphaFold Database; SMART, PROSITE, and eggNOG cover domains and families. The Open Enzyme Database and QSproteome are new community-orientated initiatives. JoGo covers hierarchically named and contextualised human haplotypes in the issue's first Breakthrough paper; So3D provides genuinely 3D spatial transcriptomics in the other. Foundational databases Genenames.org and Gene Ontology also provide updates. The Database Issue is freely available on the Nucleic Acids Research website (https://academic.oup.com/nar). At the NAR online Molecular Biology Database Collection (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/nar/database/c/), over the past year, 899 entries were reviewed, 96 new resources added, and 319 discontinued URLs removed, bringing the total number of databases to 2173.