Searching and getting data from ENA

Search and download data

ENA data are available through several routes, outlined below. For more information, see the General Guide on ENA Data Retrieval.

Click on to find quick and advanced search options on ENA Browser search webpage (Figure 3):

Figure 3 ENA browser search page.

Programmatic search and retrieval

All functionalities of the ENA Advanced Search can be performed programmatically using a combination of the ENA Portal API and the ENA Browser API. For example, see the interactive swagger page below for ENA browser (Figure 4) where you can find links to download the API docs.

Figure 4 ENA browser API.

FTP server

All sequence data presented by ENA can be downloaded from one of our two public FTP servers. The search interfaces ultimately exist to point you to links in these servers

All sequence data presented by ENA can be downloaded from our FTP servers, which are openly available to the public:

• Genome and transcriptome assemblies, and sequence annotations can be found on our ENA FTP site
• Raw read data and various types of analysis including variant data, sequence methylation and taxonomic reference sets can be found via our SRA FTP site