Repository details
European Nucleotide Archive
Name of repository
European Nucleotide Archive
Additional name(s)
- ENA
Repository URL
Subject(s)
Description
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) captures and presents information relating to experimental workflows that are based around nucleotide sequencing. A typical workflow includes the isolation and preparation of material for sequencing, a run of a sequencing machine in which sequencing data are produced and a subsequent bioinformatic analysis pipeline. ENA records this information in a data model that covers input information (sample, experimental setup, machine configuration), output machine data (sequence traces, reads and quality scores) and interpreted information (assembly, mapping, functional annotation).
Data arrive at ENA from a variety of sources. These include submissions of raw data, assembled sequences and annotation from small-scale sequencing efforts, data provision from the major European sequencing centres and routine and comprehensive exchange with our partners in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC).
Provision of nucleotide sequence data to ENA or its INSDC partners has become a central and mandatory step in the dissemination of research findings to the scientific community. ENA works with publishers of scientific literature and funding bodies to ensure compliance with these principles and to provide optimal submission systems and data access tools that work seamlessly with the published literature.
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
Data and/or service provider
- dataProvider
- serviceProvider
Institutions (5)
Additional name(s)
- BBSRC
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- EC-FP7
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- EMBL-EBI
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- INSDC
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
Type of institution
non-profit
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Policies (3)
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Database licenses (1)
Database License
Data access (1)
Type of access to data
open
Data licenses (1)
DataLicense
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
- registration
Data upload license (1)
Data upload license name
Persistent identifier system(s)
- none
Name of the repository software
- other
Data citation guideline
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes
Application programming interfaces (3)
Remarks
Remarks
Is covered by Elsevier. European Nucleotide Archive is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. The ENA is developed and maintained at the EMBL-EBI under the guidance of the INSDC International Advisory Committee and a newly formed Scientific Advisory Board. ENA is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, which comprises the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and GenBank at NCBI.
The archive is composed of three main databases: the Sequence Read Archive, the Trace Archive and the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (also known as EMBL-Bank). The ENA has grown out of the EMBL Data Library which was released in 1982 as the first internationally supported resource for nucleotide sequence data
Entry date
2013-09-26
Last update
2024-11-06
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