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The BridgeDb Project
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BridgeDb is a framework to map identifiers between various biological databases and related resources. These mappings are provided for genes, proteins […]

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BridgeDb Java 3.0.30 is released: https://github.com/bridgedb/BridgeDb/releases/tag/release_3.0.30 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18157075

"This release updates to BridgeDb Datasources 20260105 adding a few hundred more species and updates various dependencies and Maven plugins."

BridgeDb Java […]
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fosstodon.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:35 PM
new BridgeDb Datasources release: https://github.com/bridgedb/datasources/releases/tag/20260105 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18156816

Some @bioregistry alignment improvements, some TAIR updates, and many more plant species.

BridgeDb Datasources is a dataset with metadata about data sources […]
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fosstodon.org
January 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
a new BridgeDb metabolite ID mapping database has been released, compatible with PathVisio 3.3: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30993322
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
BridgeDb Webservice 2.1.8 has been released: https://github.com/bridgedb/BridgeDbWebservice/releases/tag/2.1.8

This release updates several dependencies: BridgeDb 3.0.29, org.json 20250517, JUnit 5.14.1, and org.restlet 2.4.3. It also adds a new method /${ORG}/xrefs/${COMPACT_IDENTIFIER} that […]
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November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
@bioconductor 3.22 is out, including BridgeDbR 2.22: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BridgeDbR.html

This release improves handling of ChEBI compact identifiers from @bioregistry, improves the vignette, and adds a second vignette, and explains more about rJava installation […]
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fosstodon.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
BridgeDb Tiwid 4 is released: https://github.com/bridgedb/tiwid/releases/tag/release-4 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16628413

This release updates CAS identifiers, adds SSSOM and RDF outputs, adds am optional ORCID provenance column, removes gender-related terms from NCTI because of Executive […]
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fosstodon.org
July 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
BridgeDb Java 3.0.29 is released: https://github.com/bridgedb/BridgeDb/releases/tag/release_3.0.29

"This update release brings in BridgeDb Datasources 20270728, improves the backwards compatibility with old Apache Derby versions, adds a BridgeDb.getVersion() method, and updates various […]
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July 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
new BridgeDb Datasources release: https://github.com/bridgedb/datasources/releases/tag/20270728

"Uses UniProtKB as name, removes EcoGene, and multiple small updates"

BridgeDb Datasources is a dataset with metadata about data sources and organisms used by BridgeDb Java and downstream tools like […]
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fosstodon.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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"BridgeDB & Wikidata. Una poderosa combinación que genera investigación abierta interoperable" (2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgQ6LidwFIs
June 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
@bioconductor 3.21 is out, including BridgeDbR 2.18: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/BridgeDbR.html

Includes BridgeDb 3.0.28, and session info and CiTO annotation in the vignette.

See https://genomic.social/@bioconductor/114349555185162646 for the general announcement
BridgeDbR
Use BridgeDb functions and load identifier mapping databases in R. It uses GitHub, Zenodo, and Figshare if you use this package to download identifier mappings files.
bioconductor.org
April 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
new Enxembl 111-based gene/protein identifier mapping files are available: https://data.bridgedb.org/gene_database/ (thx to Tooba Abbassi-Daloii, https://github.com/tabbassidaloii)
data
Repository to mimic the old data/gene_database/ API
data.bridgedb.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
the BridgeDb Tiwid project ("this is where identifiers die") collects outdated identifiers, and when known, provides information when the identifiers was retired (stopped working) and if there is a replacement identifier.

In the past week two new features got added. ORCIDs can now be provided […]
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January 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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new conference proceedings: "BioDataFuse: Enhancing data interoperability through modular queries and knowledge graph construction" https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3890/ https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3890/paper-23.pdf

#rdf #sparql #bioinformatics #python
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3890 - 15th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences 2024
ceur-ws.org
January 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Did you know #wikidata can be used to translate IDs of one website to IDs of another website?

https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/beacon.php

For example, Twitter usernames to Mastodon addresses -> https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/beacon.php?prop=4033&source=2002&site=

Or ORCiD to IMDB -> […]
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mastodon.social
December 29, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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meanwhile, one @bridgedb feature request implemented: the website now also lists the species common names (if giving on the JSON config files)

#sr24 #metakids #elixireurope
December 19, 2024 at 9:31 AM
a new BridgeDb metabolite ID mapping database has been released, compatible with PathVisio 3.3: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28030427.v1

To support #sr24 #metakids pathway curation, see https://social.edu.nl/@egonw/113599062833652441
Metabolite BridgeDb ID Mapping Database (20241215)
BridgeDb ID mapping database for metabolites, using HMDB 5.0 (Release of April 2024), ChEBI (Release of December 2024), and Wikidata (15 December 2024) as data sources.
figshare.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM