EMBL-ALIGN Information for Users

The EMBL-Align database accepted submissions of nucleotide sequence alignment data (from phylogenetic and population analysis etc.) and amino acid alignments until October 2008. Accession numbers of the format ALIGN_000001 were granted to each alignment from 2001, with earlier alignments being accessioned in the format ds12345.

Updates to existing alignments will continue to be accepted until 1st October 2009, and alignments which are at present confidential will be released on expiry of their hold date. If you have any queries about the EMBL-Align dataset, please contact datasubs@ebi.ac.uk.

How to access Sequence Alignment Data

All alignment data can be retrieved as an EMBL flatfile or Clustal W alignment file from the EBI FTP server. New format alignment entries (with accession number ALIGN_000001) can be retrieved via SRS by expanding the 'Nucleotide related databases' section of the library page, and selecting the 'EMBLALIGN' databank. Old format alignments are available from the HTML alignment list.

• ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/align - FTP server
• http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/ - Sequence Retrieval System
• http://www.ebi.ac.uk/webin-align/webin_align_listali.html - HTML alignment list