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However, existing resources do not systematically link gut microbial antigen sequences to the specific autoimmune mechanisms through which they act. Here, we present GUTAID (Gut Microbes in Autoimmune Disorders), a literature-curated database of gut microbial antigens annotated with experimentally supported autoimmune mechanisms. Peer-reviewed studies published from October 1970 to September 2024 were manually screened, yielding 73 potential antigens that operate through nine molecular mechanisms, including protein citrullination, epitope spreading, molecular mimicry, and immune modulation, amongst others. The corresponding protein sequences were retrieved from UniProtKB, and redundancy was removed with MMseqs2. For the database implementation, data were delivered through a lightweight LAMP (Linux\u2013Apache\u2013MySQL\/MariaDB\u2013PHP) stack with server-side HTML\/Bootstrap rendering, MySQL indexing, and HTTPS-secured downloads. 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