Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on November 26, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research 2008 36(Database issue):D5-D12; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm1018
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, Vol. 36, Database issue D5-D12
© 2007 The Author(s)
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Priorities for nucleotide trace, sequence and annotation data capture at the Ensembl Trace Archive and the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database
1EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge. CB10 1SD and 2Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge. CB10 1SA, UK
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Received September 24, 2007. Revised October 23, 2007. Accepted October 27, 2007.
The Ensembl Trace Archive (http://trace.ensembl.org/) and the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/), known together as the European Nucleotide Archive, continue to see growth in data volume and diversity. Selected major developments of 2007 are presented briefly, along with data submission and retrieval information. In the face of increasing requirements for nucleotide trace, sequence and annotation data archiving, data capture priority decisions have been taken at the European Nucleotide Archive. Priorities are discussed in terms of how reliably information can be captured, the long-term benefits of its capture and the ease with which it can be captured.