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Hereditas(Beijing) ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (11): 1044-1047.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.18-178

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GSA: Genome Sequence Archive

Sisi Zhang1,2,Tingting Chen1,2,Junwei Zhu1,2,Qing Zhou1,3,Xu Chen1,2,Yanqing Wang1,2,Wenming Zhao1,2,3()   

  1. 1. BIG Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    2. CAS Key Laboratory of Genomics and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2018-06-29 Revised:2018-09-06 Online:2018-11-20 Published:2018-10-09
  • Contact: Zhao Wenming E-mail:zhaowm@big.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    [Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFC1201200);[Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFC0901603);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB13040500);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA08020102);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91731304);Key Technology Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 13th Five-year Informatization Plan of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XXH13505-05)

Abstract:

The Genome Sequence Archive (GSA), a new data repository for raw sequence reads in China, has been developed in compliance with the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) standards. It supports data generated from a variety of sequencing platforms ranging from Sanger sequencing to single-cell sequencing and provides data storing and sharing services freely for worldwide scientific communities. Since it went online in late 2015, GSA has archived more than 500 TB data and been acknowledged by many high-profile journals, including Cell, Nature, PNAS, GPB, etc. Focusing on omics data submission, storing and sharing typically for Chinese users, GSA promotes the initiative of the National Bioinformatics Center of China. This paper introduces the specifies of GSA as data collection, curation, management and exchange to facilitate users to understand and use GSA database.

Key words: Genome Sequence Archive (GSA), omics data, data submission, data sharing