News archive

Announcements from the first version of PlasticDB (2021–2024), kept for the record. Figures in them are as of the date shown, not today's. For what has changed recently, see What's new.

• Plastic Biodegradation by the Global Ocean Microbiome

  May 2024

  Our paper in Environmental Microbiome: across hundreds of Tara Oceans metatranscriptomes, the expression of putatively plastic-degrading genes does not track marine plastic pollution.

• PlasticDB Web Application Published in Database

  March 2022

  The PlasticDB web application and database described in the journal Database.

• PlasticDB Database Updated

  2021

  A database update: 436 species and 110 enzymes at the time.

• How to Annotate Your Sequences Against PlasticDB

  2021

  A guide to annotating sequences against PlasticDB.

• PlasticDB Dataset Published

  January 2021

  The first release of the PlasticDB dataset.