Abstract
The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC; http://www.insdc.org) comprises three global partners committed to capturing, preserving and providing comprehensive public-domain nucleotide sequence information. The INSDC establishes standards, formats and protocols for data and metadata to make it easier for individuals and organisations to submit their nucleotide data reliably to public archives. This work enables the continuous, global exchange of information about living things. Here we present an update of the INSDC in 2015, including data growth and diversification, new standards and requirements by publishers for authors to submit their data to the public archives. The INSDC serves as a model for data sharing in the life sciences.
Highlights
The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC; http://www.insdc.org) represents one of the most celebrated global initiatives in public domain data sharing
Growing from efforts in the early 1980s to capture and present the increasing volumes of sequence and annotation that arose from the emerging application of sequencing techniques, by 1987, the INSDC had taken shape with the stable three party membership that persists to this day
Assembled sequences and annotations are available from DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ) (2), the EMBL-Bank component of the European Nucleotide Archive (3) and GenBank from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) (4)
Summary
Guy Cochrane*, Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi and Yasukazu Nakamura on behalf of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration.
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