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| Description | FASTQ Sequences |
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| Research center | European Bioinformatics Institute |
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| Website | http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/ |
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The Sequence Read Archive or Short Read Archive is a bioinformatics database and a collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and the DNA Data Bank of Japan. It provides a public repository for the 'short reads' generated by High-throughput sequencing.
The reads from high-throughput or 'next-gen' sequencers are typically less than 1000bp of DNA sequence.
NCBI announced their plan to close the NCBI mirror of the SRA archive in February 2011 due to funding constraints. In October 2011 NCBI announced it planned to continue with the SRA archive.[1]
Deposition of data in the SRA is a mandatory requirement of some funding agencies and open access journals.