目前,所有的测序数据都存储在国际核酸序列数据库联盟(INSDC)里,包括SRA,EBI,DDBJ。上传到任何一个数据库中的数据都会彼此共享。但是维护最好的当属SRA数据库。本文只涉及SRA数据库。以下是NCBI对SRA数据库的简介:
The SRA is NIH’s primary archive of high-throughput sequencing data and is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) that includes at the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA), the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), and the DNA Database of Japan (DDBJ). Data submitted to any of the three organizations are shared among them.