SALAD database: a motif-based database of protein annotations for plant comparative genomics. - Motohiro Mihara; Takeshi Itoh; Takeshi Izawa (Nucleic Acids Res., 2010)

MBGD update 2013: the microbial genome database for exploring the diversity of microbial world. - Ikuo Uchiyama; Motohiro Mihara; Hiroyo Nishide; Hirokazu Chiba (Nucleic Acids Res., 2013)

MBGD update 2015: microbial genome database for flexible ortholog analysis utilizing a diverse set of genomic data. - Ikuo Uchiyama; Motohiro Mihara; Hiroyo Nishide; Hirokazu Chiba (Nucleic Acids Res., 2015)

MBGD update 2018: microbial genome database based on hierarchical orthology relations covering closely related and distantly related comparisons. - Ikuo Uchiyama; Motohiro Mihara; Hiroyo Nishide; Hirokazu Chiba; Masaki Kato (Nucleic Acids Res., 2019)