AnnelidaDB: a comprehensive platform of taxonomic and multi-omic resources across annelids
Annelids inhabit marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems and are important models for studying animal evolution, regeneration, and host-microbe interactions, yet their rapidly growing omics resources remain dispersed across repositories and publications. We developed AnnelidaDB (www.annelidadb.com), a species-centred database built on an updated phylogenetic framework that integrates genomes, mitochondrial genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, epigenomes, single-cell datasets, host-associated symbiont genomes, and comparative synteny for Annelida. The current release covers 1121 species, including 152 species with nuclear genomes, 177 with mitochondrial genomes, 591 with transcriptome data, 5 with single-cell datasets comprising 209 802 cells, and 30 bacterial symbiont genomes. AnnelidaDB organizes these resources through 10 navigation directories and connects species, genome, gene, functional annotation, and gene-family records. Users can browse genomic assemblies, explore interactive single-cell atlases and 12 200 precomputed Oxford plots, run BLAST queries and search genes against the annelid-specific database, and submit chromosome-level data for syntenic analysis against 20 Annelida linkage groups. Sequences, annotations, and private results are available for download. As a comprehensive multi-omics resource dedicated to annelids, AnnelidaDB provides an accessible platform for comparative investigations of annelid genome evolution, adaptation, regeneration, and symbiosis.
Authors
- Greg W. Rouse (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9036-9263)
- José María Martín-Durán (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-1061)
- Maëva Perez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4532-8299)
- Peiyuan Qian
- Jian‐Wen Qiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1541-9627)
- Yanan Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3215-3434)
- Yunlong Li
- Jianliang Xu
- Zihui Shen
- Haokun Liu
- Fan Hui (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8609-4075)
- Yi-Xuan Li
- Xike Xie
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Hong Kong Baptist University (HK)
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography (US)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Institute of Oceanology (CN)
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) (CN)
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nucleic Acids Research
- Published
- 2026-10-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkag1087
- Primary Topic
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00