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. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D39-45.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp998. Epub 2009 Nov 11.

Improvements to services at the European Nucleotide Archive

Rasko Leinonen  1 , Ruth Akhtar, Ewan Birney, James Bonfield, Lawrence Bower, Matt Corbett, Ying Cheng, Fehmi Demiralp, Nadeem Faruque, Neil Goodgame, Richard Gibson, Gemma Hoad, Christopher Hunter, Mikyung Jang, Steven Leonard, Quan Lin, Rodrigo Lopez, Michael Maguire, Hamish McWilliam, Sheila Plaister, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Siamak Sobhany, Guy Slater, Petra Ten Hoopen, Franck Valentin, Robert Vaughan, Vadim Zalunin, Daniel Zerbino, Guy Cochrane
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Improvements to services at the European Nucleotide Archive

Rasko Leinonen et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan.

Abstract

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is Europe's primary nucleotide sequence archival resource, safeguarding open nucleotide data access, engaging in worldwide collaborative data exchange and integrating with the scientific publication process. ENA has made significant contributions to the collaborative nucleotide archival arena as an active proponent of extending the traditional collaboration to cover capillary and next-generation sequencing information. We have continued to co-develop data and metadata representation formats with our collaborators for both data exchange and public data dissemination. In addition to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank feature table format, we share metadata formats for capillary and next-generation sequencing traces and are using and contributing to the NCBI SRA Toolkit for the long-term storage of the next-generation sequence traces. During the course of 2009, ENA has significantly improved sequence submission, search and access functionalities provided at EMBL-EBI. In this article, we briefly describe the content and scope of our archive and introduce major improvements to our services.

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Selection of the sequence submission type.
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Selection of the fields to include in the submission.
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Submission summary page.
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ENA Browser project page.
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ENA Browser taxonomy page.
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