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Providing the required metadata for your submission to ENA
In order to support submission, ENA has implemented the ‘Minimum Information about any (X) Sequence’ (MIxS) standard developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC).
The GSC has defined a number of checklists corresponding to different biomes. Each checklist contains all mandatory fields required to accurately provide the metadata describing a project associated with this biome. You can also provide optional parameters.
Submitting pre-publication data
As mentioned earlier, you can keep the pre-publication data you have submitted to ENA confidential for up to two years in the first instance. If you want MGnify to analyse data held confidentially, you have to provide an explicit agreement that MGnify can access the data, in line with ENA’s data access policies. You can provide this agreement while registering on the MGnify portal. If you are already a registered ENA user, you can provide your agreement while submitting your data via the MGnify portal.
The MGnify analysis results for confidential data are held in the private section of the MGnify website – you will need to log in (using the same credentials as on the ENA website) to access them.