Toribio Ana Luisa, Alako Blaise, Amid Clara, Cerdeño-Tarrága Ana, Clarke Laura, Cleland Iain, Fairley Susan, Gibson Richard, Goodgame Neil, Ten Hoopen Petra, Jayathilaka Suran, Kay Simon, Leinonen Rasko, Liu Xin, Martínez-Villacorta Josué, Pakseresht Nima, Rajan Jeena, Reddy Kethi, Rosello Marc, Silvester Nicole, Smirnov Dmitriy, Vaughan Daniel, Zalunin Vadim, Cochrane Guy
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jan 4;45(D1):D32-D36. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1106. Epub 2016 Nov 29.
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) offers a rich platform for data sharing, publishing and archiving and a globally comprehensive data set for onward use by the scientific community. With a broad scope spanning raw sequencing reads, genome assemblies and functional annotation, the resource provides extensive data submission, search and download facilities across web and programmatic interfaces. Here, we outline ENA content and major access modalities, highlight major developments in 2016 and outline a number of examples of data reuse from ENA.