Abstract
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is Europe's primary resource for nucleotide sequence information. With the growing volume and diversity of public sequencing data comes the need for increased sophistication in data organisation, presentation and search services so as to maximise its discoverability and usability. In response to this, ENA has been introducing and improving checklists for use during submission and expanding its search facilities to provide targeted search results. Here, we give a brief update on ENA content and some major developments undertaken in data submission services during 2014. We then describe in more detail the services we offer for data discovery and retrieval.
Highlights
For 30 years, the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) has been capturing, organizing and presenting openly the world’s public domain sequencing data
ENA covers a spectrum of sequence data types, including raw reads, assemblies, functional annotation and contextual information, such as sample data and links into the scientific literature
With an overall footprint in excess of 2.5 petabytes, ENA data grow with a doubling time of approximately 20 months
Summary
Nicole Silvester*, Blaise Alako, Clara Amid, Ana Cerdeno-Tarraga, Iain Cleland, Richard Gibson, Neil Goodgame, Petra ten Hoopen, Simon Kay, Rasko Leinonen, Weizhong Li, Xin Liu, Rodrigo Lopez, Nima Pakseresht, Swapna Pallreddy, Sheila Plaister, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Marc Rossello, Alexander Senf, Dmitriy Smirnov, 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
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