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. 2011 Jan;39(Database issue):D28-31.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq967. Epub 2010 Oct 23.

The European Nucleotide Archive

Rasko Leinonen  1 , Ruth Akhtar, Ewan Birney, Lawrence Bower, Ana Cerdeno-Tárraga, Ying Cheng, Iain Cleland, Nadeem Faruque, Neil Goodgame, Richard Gibson, Gemma Hoad, Mikyung Jang, Nima Pakseresht, Sheila Plaister, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Kethi Reddy, Siamak Sobhany, Petra Ten Hoopen, Robert Vaughan, Vadim Zalunin, Guy Cochrane
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The European Nucleotide Archive

Rasko Leinonen et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan.

Abstract

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is Europe's primary nucleotide-sequence repository. The ENA consists of three main databases: the Sequence Read Archive (SRA), the Trace Archive and EMBL-Bank. The objective of ENA is to support and promote the use of nucleotide sequencing as an experimental research platform by providing data submission, archive, search and download services. In this article, we outline these services and describe major changes and improvements introduced during 2010. These include extended EMBL-Bank and SRA-data submission services, extended ENA Browser functionality, support for submitting data to the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) through SRA, and the launch of a new sequence similarity search service.

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Figure 1.
The complete mitochondrial genome for Ursus spelaeus (cave bear) from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology submitted to EMBL-Bank in 2010.
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