Sequence Read Archive
The Sequence Read Archive or Short Read Archive is an important bioinformatics database hosted at the European Bioinformatics Institute. It provides a public repository for the 'short reads' generated by second generation sequencing technologies.
The 'short reads' are typically less than 1000bp of DNA sequence and associated quality information collected from a genomic, environmental or transcriptomic (reverse transcribed) sample.
The NCBI mirror of the SRA was closed in 2010 due to funding cuts.
Deposition of data in the SRA is a mandatory requirement of some funding agencies and open access journals.
External links
- European Nucleotide Archive, page for search in SRA
- SRA homepage at the NCBI.
- SRA 'homepage' in typical EBI style.
References
- A SEQanswers thread on the topic [1]
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