SASBDB reaches 5000 data sets: empowering open science and next-generation SAS analysis

The Small-Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank (SASBDB) has recently reached a milestone of 5000 entries, reflecting over a decade of community-driven efforts to support open and reusable biological small-angle scattering data. SASBDB provides curated experimental scattering profiles together with metadata describing samples, experimental conditions and associated structural models, thereby enabling transparent data sharing, reproducibility and comparative analysis. The archive has become an important resource for benchmarking, reanalysis and method development, including the evaluation of structure-based modelling approaches and the integration of solution scattering data with high-resolution predictive models. Its growing content also supports benchmarking, method development, and emerging data-driven and machine-learning approaches that rely on curated collections of real experimental data. This milestone highlights the role of SASBDB as a foundational infrastructure for contemporary and future developments in biological small-angle scattering.