EMBL-EBI: Introduction to the European Nucleotide Sequence Archive

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The European Nucleotide Sequence Archive (ENA) is a global database for storing experimental nucleotide data and also interpreted data (alignment files, variant calling, analysis results). The data is submitted by scientists conducting sequencing experiments and publishing research in the area. Data is fully searchable and available for download. Sequence data includes raw NGS files (FastQ, BAM…), assembled genomes and transcriptomes, and annotated sequences (protein coding genes, non coding RNA, barcode genes, HLA genes)

Also note: This event is part of a series of short introductions focusing on EMBL-EBI resources. If you want to learn more about these separate training events, see the Related Courses section below.

Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.

• The workshop is suitable for scientists that are producing sequence data and require a platform to publish it, and for bioinformaticians wishing to search and analyse third party sequence data.
• Graduate students, Postdocs and Staff members from the University of Cambridge, Affiliated Institutions and other external Institutions or individuals
• Please be aware that these courses are only free for University of Cambridge students. All other participants will be charged a registration fee in some form. Registration fees and further details regarding the charging policy are available here.
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here

No previous bioinformatics experience is required, but an undergraduate level understanding of biology would be an advantage.

Number of sessions: 1

Bioinformatics, Database search, Data retrieval

After this course you should be able to:

• submit all types of sequence data
• submit supplementary interpreted data such as variant calls, alignment files, annotation tables
• browse the ENA database in detail, learning about its structure and the type of data it contains

During this course you will learn about:

• European Nucleotide Archive (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena)

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

• Free for University of Cambridge students
• £ 50/day for all University of Cambridge staff, including postdocs, and participants from Affiliated Institutions. Please note that these charges are recovered by us at the Institutional level
• It remains the participant's responsibility to acquire prior approval from the relevant group leader, line manager or budget holder to attend the course. It is requested that people booking only do so with the agreement of the relevant party as costs will be charged back to your Lab Head or Group Supervisor.
• £ 50/day for all other academic participants from external Institutions and charitable organizations. These charges must be paid at registration
• £ 100/day for all Industry participants. These charges must be paid at registration
• Further details regarding the charging policy are available here

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Two times a year

Related

• EMBL-EBI: Network Analysis with Cytoscape (ONLINE LIVE TRAINING)
• EMBL-EBI: An Introduction to Sequence Searching
• EMBL-EBI: Introduction to EMBL-EBI resources
• EMBL-EBI: Transcriptomics Data and Tools (ONLINE LIVE TRAINING)
• EMBL-EBI: Ontologies in life sciences - examples from GO and EFO
• EMBL-EBI: European Variation Archive
• EMBL-EBI: Interactions & Pathways
• EMBL-EBI: Introduction to Interpro
• EMBL-EBI: Protein Sequence Databases with UniProt