Microbiology Resource Announcements (MRA)

Microbiology Resource Announcements (MRA) is a weekly, fully online, open‑access scientific journal published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Launched in 2018 as the successor to Genome Announcements, MRA provides a dedicated platform for researchers to rapidly report and disseminate microbiological resources and associated data sets that have been deposited in publicly accessible repositories. The journal’s focus is unique: rather than traditional research narratives, MRA publishes concise announcements that document the availability of key scientific resources such as newly sequenced microbial genomes, metagenomes, and omics‑scale datasets; culture collections; mutant libraries; and computational tools relevant for microbiologists worldwide. Each announcement serves as a formal citable record, ensuring that valuable resources are discoverable, reusable, and integrated into the broader scientific literature. Because of its weekly publication schedule, MRA offers rapid communication of resource information, accelerating scientific progress and promoting transparency in data sharing. The open‑access model ensures that all announcements are freely available to researchers, educators, and practitioners across the globe without subscription barriers. MRA thus plays a critical role in supporting open science principles, facilitating reproducibility, and enabling broad access to foundational microbial data resources that underpin research in ecology, infectious disease, biotechnology, and environmental microbiology. Its concise format and emphasis on data availability reflect current trends in scientific publishing that value accessibility and reuse of primary research outputs.

Microbiology Resource Announcements (MRA) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Accounting, Agronomy and Crop Science, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Biotechnology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Environmental Science, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology , Online , weekly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN E-ISSN: 2576-098X, Established: 2018,
• Does Not Provide Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE