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MaveDB

General information

URL: https://www.mavedb.org
Full name:
Description: MaveDB is an open-access, community-curated repository that currently hosts > 7 million experimentally measured variant-effect scores from > 1 000 multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs). It provides rich metadata, interactive visualisation, programmatic APIs and support for diverse assay types—including saturation genome editing—to accelerate variant interpretation at scale.
Year founded: 2019
Last update: 2025-01-21
Version: v2.0
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United States

Contact information

University/Institution: University of Washington
Address:
City: Seattle
Province/State: Washington
Country/Region: United States
Contact name (PI/Team): Douglas M. Fowler
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): dfowler@uw.edu

Publications

39838450
MaveDB 2024: a curated community database with over seven million variant effects from multiplexed functional assays. [PMID: 39838450]
Alan F Rubin, Jeremy Stone, Aisha Haley Bianchi, Benjamin J Capodanno, Estelle Y Da, Mafalda Dias, Daniel Esposito, Jonathan Frazer, Yunfan Fu, Sally B Grindstaff, Matthew R Harrington, Iris Li, Abbye E McEwen, Joseph K Min, Nick Moore, Olivia G Moscatelli, Jesslyn Ong, Polina V Polunina, Joshua E Rollins, Nathan J Rollins, Ashley E Snyder, Amy Tam, Matthew J Wakefield, Shenyi Sunny Ye, Lea M Starita, Vanessa L Bryant, Debora S Marks, Douglas M Fowler

Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are a critical tool for researchers and clinicians to understand genetic variants. Here we describe the 2024 update to MaveDB ( https://www.mavedb.org/ ) with four key improvements to the MAVE community's database of record: more available data including over 7 million variant effect measurements, an improved data model supporting assays such as saturation genome editing, new built-in exploration and visualization tools, and powerful APIs for data federation and streamlined submission and access. Together these changes support MaveDB's role as a hub for the analysis and dissemination of MAVEs now and into the future.

Genome Biol. 2025:26(1) | 43 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2026-03-28)
31679514
MaveDB: an open-source platform to distribute and interpret data from multiplexed assays of variant effect. [PMID: 31679514]
Esposito D, Weile J, Shendure J, Starita LM, Papenfuss AT, Roth FP, Fowler DM, Rubin AF.

Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs), such as deep mutational scans and massively parallel reporter assays, test thousands of sequence variants in a single experiment. Despite the importance of MAVE data for basic and clinical research, there is no standard resource for their discovery and distribution. Here, we present MaveDB ( https://www.mavedb.org ), a public repository for large-scale measurements of sequence variant impact, designed for interoperability with applications to interpret these datasets. We also describe the first such application, MaveVis, which retrieves, visualizes, and contextualizes variant effect maps. Together, the database and applications will empower the community to mine these powerful datasets.

Genome Biol. 2019:20(1) | 185 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2026-03-28)

Ranking

All databases:
498/6932 (92.83%)
Gene genome and annotation:
176/2039 (91.417%)
Genotype phenotype and variation:
66/1012 (93.577%)
498
Total Rank
210
Citations
30
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Created on: 2025-06-30
Curated by:
Jinbiao Wang [2025-08-20]
shaosen zhang [2025-07-06]
Xi Zhao [2025-06-30]