GSA:Genome Sequence Archive
- Author:
Wang YANQING
1
;
Song FUHAI
;
Zhu JUNWEI
;
Zhang SISI
;
Yang YADONG
;
Chen TINGTING
;
Tang BIXIA
Author Information
1. BIG Data Center
- Keywords:
Genome Sequence Archive;
GSA;
Big data;
Raw sequence data;
INSDC
- From:
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
2017;15(1):14-18
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
With the rapid development of sequencing technologies towards higher throughput andlower cost, sequence data are generated at an unprecedentedly explosive rate. To provide an efficientand easy-to-use platform for managing huge sequence data, here we present Genome Sequence Archive (GSA; http://bigd.big.ac.cn/gsa or http://gsa.big.ac.cn), a data repository for archiving rawsequence data. In compliance with data standards and structures of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC), GSA adopts four data objects (BioProject, Bio Sample,Experiment, and Run) for data organization, accepts raw sequence reads produced by a variety of sequencing platforms, stores both sequence reads and metadata submitted from all over the world,and makes all these data publicly available to worldwide scientific communities. In the era of bigdata, GSA is not only an important complement to existing INSDC members by alleviating theincreasing burdens of handling sequence data deluge, but also takes the significant responsibilityfor global big data archive and provides free unrestricted access to all publicly available data insupport of research activities throughout the world.
