Webin authentication

From 29 January 2pm onwards submitters may login into all ENA's submission systems (Webin) using the same user name and password.

We recommend the use of Webin submission account name (Webin-) as the user name. However, e-mail address or era-drop- FTP account name are also supported.

All new submitters will be instructed to use our new FTP server at webin.ebi.ac.uk (port 8021) to upload files.

Users of the Webin Data Upload application will be transparently directed to this new FTP service.

We will also continue to support file uploads using the existing era-drop- accounts at ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk.

Programmatic submitters may choose between the existing authentication method:

auth=ERA era-drop-

and a new method:

auth=ENA

The latter will allow authentication using the Webin- account name or an e-mail address associated with the submission account.

Please note that password reset requests made through the interactive Webin application will not affect the password required to authenticate as the era-drop- FTP user through the programmatic interface (auth=ERA) or through ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk.

If you have any questions or experience any difficulties after the maintenance please contact us at datasubs@ebi.ac.uk.