Abstract
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is a repository for the world public domain nucleotide sequence data output. ENA content covers a spectrum of data types including raw reads, assembly data and functional annotation. ENA has faced a dramatic growth in genome assembly submission rates, data volumes and complexity of datasets. This has prompted a broad reworking of assembly submission services, for which we now reach the end of a major programme of work and many enhancements have already been made available over the year to components of the submission service. In this article, we briefly review ENA content and growth over 2013, describe our rapidly developing services for genome assembly information and outline further major developments over the last year.
Highlights
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is the European resource in which the world’s public domain sequencing data are maintained
ENA was established in the early 1980s to serve the scientific community and continues to provide a critical foundation for the global bioinformatics data infrastructure
ENA content covers a spectrum of data classes, from raw sequence reads, through read alignments and assembled sequences to functional annotation, along with various levels of descriptive information relating to these data
Summary
Nima Pakseresht*, Blaise Alako, Clara Amid, Ana Cerdeno-Tarraga, Iain Cleland, Richard Gibson, Neil Goodgame, Tamer Gur, Mikyung Jang, Simon Kay, Rasko Leinonen, Weizhong Li, Xin Liu, Rodrigo Lopez, Hamish McWilliam, Arnaud Oisel, Swapna Pallreddy, Sheila Plaister, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Stephane Riviere, Marc Rossello, Alexander Senf, Nicole Silvester, Dmitriy Smirnov, Silvano Squizzato, Petra ten Hoopen, Ana Luisa Toribio, Daniel Vaughan, Vadim Zalunin and Guy Cochrane. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. Received September 27, 2013; Revised October 29, 2013; Accepted October 15, 2013
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