DNAnexus is delighted that the NCBI is continuing to support the Sequence Read Archive, following concerns that the SRA may be phased out due to funding constraints. We continue to provide our search and browsing interface for the SRA, but data downloads will come directly from the NCBI. Downloading SRA file format data through DNAnexus will continue to be possible, however the ability to download FASTQ files or directly import the data into DNAnexus will no longer be available.
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 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 SRA format for analysis in your tool of choice
Last updated: May 8 2013