ENA release 122

Release 122 of assembled/annotated sequences from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is now available on the EBI public ftp server at ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/ena/sequence/release/ and also at ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release/ (softlinked to ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/ena/sequence/release/). It contains 510,014,239 sequences comprising 1,094,969,877,589 nucleotides. You can see the full release notes at: http://bit.ly/LKFtrE.

Please note that there are no individual files under the root release directory. The STD, CON, and document files are now in the std, con, and doc directories. The following folders have also been added to hold related release files: expanded_con, patent, and deleted.

ENA captures, preserves and presents the world's nucleotide sequence data. New content is included in ENA on a continuous basis and are distributed daily from our browser and RESTful service. The ENA assembled/annotated sequence release provides a quarterly snapshot of content in this important subset of ENA content.