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. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D27-30.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkh120.

The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database

Tamara Kulikova  1 , Philippe Aldebert, Nicola Althorpe, Wendy Baker, Kirsty Bates, Paul Browne, Alexandra van den Broek, Guy Cochrane, Karyn Duggan, Ruth Eberhardt, Nadeem Faruque, Maria Garcia-Pastor, Nicola Harte, Carola Kanz, Rasko Leinonen, Quan Lin, Vincent Lombard, Rodrigo Lopez, Renato Mancuso, Michelle McHale, Francesco Nardone, Ville Silventoinen, Peter Stoehr, Guenter Stoesser, Mary Ann Tuli, Katerina Tzouvara, Robert Vaughan, Dan Wu, Weimin Zhu, Rolf Apweiler
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The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database

Tamara Kulikova et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/), maintained at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), incorporates, organizes and distributes nucleotide sequences from public sources. The database is a part of an international collaboration with DDBJ (Japan) and GenBank (USA). Data are exchanged between the collaborating databases on a daily basis to achieve optimal synchrony. The web-based tool, Webin, is the preferred system for individual submission of nucleotide sequences, including Third Party Annotation (TPA) and alignment data. Automatic submission procedures are used for submission of data from large-scale genome sequencing centres and from the European Patent Office. Database releases are produced quarterly. The latest data collection can be accessed via FTP, email and WWW interfaces. The EBI's Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) integrates and links the main nucleotide and protein databases as well as many other specialist molecular biology databases. For sequence similarity searching, a variety of tools (e.g. FASTA and BLAST) are available that allow external users to compare their own sequences against the data in the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database, the complete genomic component subsection of the database, the WGS data sets and other databases. All available resources can be accessed via the EBI home page at http://www.ebi.ac.uk.

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