News


25 Apr 2012	CRAM 0.8 released CRAM toolkit 0.8 has been released. More information with download, installation and usage instructions are available here.
25 Apr 2012	ENA policy relating to compression of submitted data ENA details its policy on use of CRAM raw sequence data compression during the archiving process.
7 Mar 2012	CRAM toolkit 0.7 released CRAM toolkit 0.7 has been released. More information with download, installation and usage instructions are available here.
2 Mar 2012	The future of sequence archiving The future of sequence archiving and the role of data compression is explored in a new paper from EBI to be published in Gigascience. Planned for the first issue of the journal, the paper is available pre-publication here. In the paper, we propose a way forward through the use a graded system in which the ease of reproduction of a sequencing-based experiment and the relative availability of a sample for resequencing be used as a means to define the level of lossy compression to apply to the stored data.
13 Feb 2012	CRAM toolkit 0.6 released CRAM toolkit version 0.6 has been released. More information with download, installation and usage instructions are available here.
20 Jan 2012	ENA training videos now available on the EMBL-EBI YouTube Channel Train yourself on Sequence Read Archive submissions theory and practice with ENA training videos now uploaded to the EMBL-EBI YouTube Channel for simpler access. We believe that such videos are useful additions to our support services and plan to cover more areas of ENA as time goes by. Contact us at datasubs@ebi.ac.uk with suggestions of ENA services that you would like to see covered.
6 Jan 2012	ENA data go Galactic Next generation sequence data from ENA's Sequence Read Archive (SRA) are now available as a data source in the Galaxy analysis system. SRA data can be browsed and selected for upload using the Galaxy 'Get Data' tool. The 'EBI SRA' data source forwards users to ENA's pages to upload data into Galaxy. In ENA, links are provided to Galaxy that upload data into the system and launch a session. For example, the following URL provides a list of all fastq files associated with SRA study ERP000591: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/ERP000591. The Galaxy file upload links are available in the column 'Galaxy'.
4 Nov 2011	CRAM toolkit 0.5 released CRAM toolkit version 0.5 has been released with support for several new quality budget models, random access index, and support for the Picard API. More information with download, installation and usage instructions are available here.
3 Aug 2011	CRAM toolkit 0.3 released CRAM toolkit version 0.3 has been released with support for read quality masking (selective preservation of base quality scores). More information with download, installation and usage instructions are available here.
16 Mar 2011	ArchiveBAM 1.0 specification The ArchiveBAM 1.0 specification has been published. SRA submitters are adviced to submit their data using the BAM format. The specification is available here.
11 Mar 2011	ENA User Survey 2011 now available Have your say and help us to improve ENA in our brief survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ENA_User_Survey_2011.
7 Mar 2011	Next Generation Sequencing Workshop at EBI Spaces still available on the SRA user course: EBI Affiliated Course - Next Generation Sequencing Workshop 2011. The course will take place at EBI on the 4th-6th April 2011. Further details are available here.
26 Jan 2011	EMBL-EBI and Sequence Read Archive EMBL-EBI will continue to support the Sequence Read Archive for raw data. See here for further details.
6 Dec 2010	MIENS specification The MIENS specification for describing marker genes was published in Nature Precedings. The full article is available here.
9 Nov 2010	SRA article An article describing the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) services was published in the Nucleic Acids Research 2011 Database Issue. The full article is available here.
23 Oct 2010	ENA article An article describing the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) services was published in the Nucleic Acids Research 2011 Database Issue. The full article is available here.