We are happy to announce the eighth release of JASPAR database, as JASPAR 2020. This latest release comes with a hundreds of new/updated profiles as position frequency matrices (PFMs), introducing a new community curation initiative, an open Q&A forum, and much more. \n\n<br><br>\nBelow are the highlights of this release:\n\n<ul>\n<li> Added 245 new PFMs (169 for vertebrates, 42 for plants, 17 for nematodes, 10 for insects, and 7 for fungi)</li>\n<li> Updated 157 PFMs (125 for vertebrates, 28 for plants, and 3 for insects).</li>\n<li> This release comes with a novel collection of unvalidated TF-binding profiles for which our curators did not find orthogonal supporting evidence in the literature.</li>\n<li> Moreover, we created a Q&A forum to ease the communication between the user community and JASPAR curators. </li>\n</ul>\n\n<br><br>\nThe data are available on the <a href="/">JASPAR website</a>, via the <a href="/api">REST API</a>, and in the <a href="/downloads">downloads section</a>.