Welcome to the small BActerial RNA database !
A hand curated resource of experimentally validated bacterial small RNAs.
This website is free and open to all users and there is no login requirement.
1,117 articles hand-curated
746 unique sRNA
Hits on 44,789 chromosomes
Hits on 10,884 plasmids
5,292 filtered RNA expression datasets
Not sure where to start?
Explore sRNA across the set of complete genomes and plasmids from nuccore at the Pangenome page. Explore an example sRNA sRNA-Sflex-33. Bowtie2 Search a sequence against the bonafide set on the Search page. Read the Tutorial page for more information.
Citing smallBARNA
S. Rishik, L. A. G. Molano, S. M. Khalid, T. Babalashvili, F. Hasanah, M. Rahman, P. Hirsch, F. Grandke, E. Hoffman, T. Wolff, G. P. Schmartz, A. Keller, smallBARNA 2026: A kingdom-wide bacterial sRNA resource, journal doi