General Guide On ENA Data Submission
Welcome to the general guide for the European Nucleotide Archive submission. Please take a moment to view this introduction and consider the options available to you before you begin your submission.
ENA allows submissions via three routes, each of which is appropriate for a different set of submission types. You may be required to use more than one in the process of submitting your data:
Interactive Submissions are completed by filling out web forms directly in your browser and downloading template spreadsheets that can be completed off-line and uploaded to ENA. This is often the most accessible submission route.
Command Line Submissions use our bespoke Webin-CLI program. This validates your submissions entirely before you complete them, allowing you maximum control of the process.
Programmatic Submissions are completed by preparing your submissions as XML documents and either sending them to ENA using a program such as cURL or using the Webin Portal.
The table below outlines what can be submitted through each submission route. It is also recommended that you familiarise yourself with our metadata model.
Interactive |
Webin-CLI |
Programmatic |
|
Study |
Y |
N |
Y |
Sample |
Y |
N |
Y |
Read data |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Genome Assembly |
N |
Y |
N |
Transcriptome Assembly |
N |
Y |
N |
Template Sequence |
N |
Y |
N |
Other Analyses |
N |
N |
Y |
Before submitting to ENA it is important to familiarise yourself with the different options available for data submission. This general guide will get you started in understanding how data can be submitted to ENA and how to keep track of the progress of your submission.