title: Improvements to services at the European Nucleotide Archive.
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.
authors.affiliation: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. rasko@ebi.ac.uk
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mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D004247:DNA