The Sequence Read Archive (SRA) stores raw sequencing data from next-generation sequencing platforms including Applied Biosystems SOLiD® System, Complete Genomics®, Helicos Heliscope®, Illumina Genome Analyzer®, Pacific Biosciences SMRT®, and Roche 454 GS System®. The SRA is the single best resource for useful data from initiatives such as the 1,000 Genomes Project and institutions like the Broad Institute, Washington University, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
The DNAnexus SRA site is a hosted version of NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and provides free access to all
publicly accessible datasets for specific studies, experiments, samples, and runs that are currently available via
the NCBI’s SRA website.
The DNAnexus SRA site consists of a clean and easy-to-use search and browsing interface, which allows you to search across multiple data annotations and keywords for object(s) of interest embedded in the SRA database:
- Search database using a simplified search interface for the support of “typical” NGS queries like organism, author, submitter, key words etc.
- Identify any study, experiment, sample, or run of interest in a ranked list of search results returned with relevant metadata for easy browsing
- Download data in FASTQ or SRA format for analysis in your tool of choice
- Import data into DNAnexus to understand data quality or to analyze and visualize the data in an interactive genome browser