About

Purpose, scope, governance, and licensing for the saRNA Database.

Purpose and scope

The saRNA Database is a structured literature resource for small activating RNA research. It brings together reported sequence, experimental, genomic, and source-publication information that can support literature review and further analysis.

The saRNA Database is developed and maintained at the National Institute of Chemistry, within the Department of Synthetic Biology and Immunology.

Governance and stewardship

The database is maintained through documented release procedures. Public releases are versioned and preserved through Zenodo. The project scope includes manual curation from publications and patents, sequence-level annotations, experimental conditions, reported activity, and genomic context. Suspected errors, missing publications, sequence discrepancies, and metadata corrections will be reviewed and incorporated into later releases rather than silently changing an archived version.

Licensing summary

The database compilation and original project annotations are available under CC BY 4.0. The website code is available under the MIT License. Source publications and other third-party materials retain their own rights. See the data-license file and code-license file for details.

Repository and archive

Website source code is available in the public GitHub repository. The complete v1.0.0 database release is available from the Zenodo archive, and the associated review is published in Molecules: Small Activating RNAs: A Curated Database and an Overview of Rational Design Principles.