Planned changes to ENA sequence search

ENA is changing to a new, BLAST-based, sequence search service this March. The new service will provide a user interface to perform sequence similarity searches on INSDC primary sequences.

The current Exonerate search service will remain available until the end of July, including updates of all non-coding (including RNAcentral sequences), Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes sequences only. Following the shut down in July, users of these additional sequences should contact RNAcentral, Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes directly for advice on performing sequence similarity search.

Programmatic users should switch to use the central EBI BLAST SOAP or REST web services upon which our new service is based.