Submitting Data to EMBL-EBI Resources

Creating well-structured data and sharing it with the global scientific community facilitates your own science and makes it easier for you and others to reuse your data to answer new questions.

EMBL-EBI has many services to help you validate, store, annotate and share your data with the scientific community. During this workshop I shall give an overview of the major EMBL-EBI archives and pointers on how to submit to them.

EMBL-EBI hosts archives which accept many different assay types including genome sequence, transcriptomics data, other functional sequencing, variation data, proteomics and metabolomics. We also host two archives that can span data across these assay archives. BioSamples accepts records of biological samples. When you use the same sample in different assays the ID BioSamples provides allows you to refer the common record, enabling users to see when there are different data types available on the same sample. Biostudies is a database of biological studies. It can act as a central hub for projects which are generating assay data which sits across multiple archives, ensuring they can be discovered in one place. It can also host ancillary data which doesn’t have a logical home in any of our assay archives such as statistical analyses, image files or analysis code. (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/submission/)

EMBL-EBI has many services which can help you share your data with the scientific community. This workshop will provide you with a starting point on how to submit data to our archives.