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ENA vs EMBL-Bank #9

Closed peterjc closed 10 years ago

peterjc commented 10 years ago

Should we be talking about the ENA, or EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (EMBL-Bank), or both?

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/about/formats "Data tiers within ENA provide a level of abstraction from the underlying infrastructure that has resulted from the integration of three databases: the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (EMBL-Bank), the Trace Archive and the Sequence Read Archive (SRA)."

Currently we mostly use ENA, but there are still references to EMBL (not currently in the abbreviations table). Probably in terms of annotation, we're mainly concerned with EMBL-Bank (as part of the triple mirror under the INSDC with NCBI/GenBank and DDBJ).

peterjc commented 10 years ago

Feel free anyone to re-open this if you disagree, but I've switched to using EMBL-Bank consistently.