We are happy to announce the seventh release of JASPAR database, as JASPAR 2018. This latest release comes with a hundreds of new/updated profiles as position frequency matrices (PFMs) and TF flexible models (TFFMs), and also several other features. \n\n<br><br>\nBelow are the highlights of this release:\n\n<ul>\n<li> Added 322 new PFMs (60 for vertebrates and 262 for plants)</li>\n<li> Updated 33 PFMs were (24 for vertebrates, 8 for plants, and 1 for insects)</li>\n<li> Added 316 TFFMs (95 for vertebrates, 218 for plants, and 3 for insects)</li>\n<li> This release comes with clusters of similar PFMs in each taxon and each TF class per taxon</li>\n<li> Comes with UCSC Genome Browser track data hub containing genome-wide binding site predictions for TF profiles in the JASPAR CORE vertebrates collection</li>\n<li> Introduced a completely new web framework with an interactive and responsive user-interface</li>\n<li> Introduced a RESTful API to retrieved data programmatically</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>.