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Nucleic Acids Res ; 46(D1): D726-D735, 2018 01 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29069476

RESUMEN

EBI metagenomics (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics) provides a free to use platform for the analysis and archiving of sequence data derived from the microbial populations found in a particular environment. Over the past two years, EBI metagenomics has increased the number of datasets analysed 10-fold. In addition to increased throughput, the underlying analysis pipeline has been overhauled to include both new or updated tools and reference databases. Of particular note is a new workflow for taxonomic assignments that has been extended to include assignments based on both the large and small subunit RNA marker genes and to encompass all cellular micro-organisms. We also describe the addition of metagenomic assembly as a new analysis service. Our pilot studies have produced over 2400 assemblies from datasets in the public domain. From these assemblies, we have produced a searchable, non-redundant protein database of over 50 million sequences. To provide improved access to the data stored within the resource, we have developed a programmatic interface that provides access to the analysis results and associated sample metadata. Finally, we have integrated the results of a series of statistical analyses that provide estimations of diversity and sample comparisons.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos Genéticas , Metagenómica , Microbiota , Algoritmos , Secuencia de Bases , Clasificación/métodos , Conjuntos de Datos como Asunto , Metagenómica/métodos , ARN de Archaea/genética , ARN Bacteriano/genética , ARN Viral/genética , Ribotipificación , Programas Informáticos , Transcriptoma , Interfaz Usuario-Computador , Navegador Web , Flujo de Trabajo
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 45(D1): D32-D36, 2017 01 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27899630

RESUMEN

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) offers a rich platform for data sharing, publishing and archiving and a globally comprehensive data set for onward use by the scientific community. With a broad scope spanning raw sequencing reads, genome assemblies and functional annotation, the resource provides extensive data submission, search and download facilities across web and programmatic interfaces. Here, we outline ENA content and major access modalities, highlight major developments in 2016 and outline a number of examples of data reuse from ENA.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Análisis de Secuencia de ADN , Análisis de Secuencia de ARN , Genómica , Internet , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular
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J Exp Bot ; 69(3): 441-454, 2018 01 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29294075

RESUMEN

Cytokinins comprise a group of phytohormones with an organ-specific mode of action. Although the mechanisms controlling the complex networks of cytokinin metabolism are partially known, the role of individual cytokinin types in the maintenance of cytokinin homeostasis remains unclear. Utilizing the overproduction of single-chain Fv antibodies selected for their ability to bind trans-zeatin riboside and targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum, we post-synthetically modulated cytokinin ribosides, the proposed transport forms of cytokinins. We observed asymmetric activity of cytokinin biosynthetic genes and cytokinin distribution in wild-type tobacco seedlings with higher cytokinin abundance in the root than in the shoot. Antibody-mediated modulation of cytokinin ribosides further enhanced the relative cytokinin abundance in the roots and induced cytokinin-related phenotypes in an organ-specific manner. The activity of cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase in the roots was strongly up-regulated in response to antibody-mediated formation of the cytokinin pool in the endoplasmic reticulum. However, we only detected a slight decrease in the root cytokinin levels. In contrast, a significant decrease of cytokinins occurred in the shoot. We suggest the roots as the main site of cytokinin biosynthesis in tobacco seedlings. Conversely, cytokinin levels in the shoot seem to depend largely on long-range transport of cytokinin ribosides from the root and their subsequent metabolic activation.


Asunto(s)
Citocininas/fisiología , Homeostasis , Isopenteniladenosina/análogos & derivados , Nicotiana/fisiología , Fenotipo , Reguladores del Crecimiento de las Plantas/fisiología , Isopenteniladenosina/metabolismo , Planticuerpos/fisiología , Plantones/fisiología
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 44(D1): D595-603, 2016 Jan 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26582919

RESUMEN

EBI metagenomics (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/) is a freely available hub for the analysis and archiving of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data. Over the last 2 years, the resource has undergone rapid growth, with an increase of over five-fold in the number of processed samples and consequently represents one of the largest resources of analysed shotgun metagenomes. Here, we report the status of the resource in 2016 and give an overview of new developments. In particular, we describe updates to data content, a complete overhaul of the analysis pipeline, streamlining of data presentation via the website and the development of a new web based tool to compare functional analyses of sequence runs within a study. We also highlight two of the higher profile projects that have been analysed using the resource in the last year: the oceanographic projects Ocean Sampling Day and Tara Oceans.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Metagenómica , Perfilación de la Expresión Génica , Internet , Océanos y Mares , Programas Informáticos
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 44(D1): D58-66, 2016 Jan 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26615190

RESUMEN

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is a repository for the submission, maintenance and presentation of nucleotide sequence data and related sample and experimental information. In this article we report on ENA in 2015 regarding general activity, notable published data sets and major achievements. This is followed by a focus on sustainable biocuration of functional annotation, an area which has particularly felt the pressure of sequencing growth. The importance of functional annotation, how it can be submitted and the shifting role of the biocurator in the context of increasing volumes of data are all discussed.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Análisis de Secuencia de ADN , Análisis de Secuencia de ARN , Curaduría de Datos
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 43(Database issue): D23-9, 2015 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25404130

RESUMEN

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is Europe's primary resource for nucleotide sequence information. With the growing volume and diversity of public sequencing data comes the need for increased sophistication in data organisation, presentation and search services so as to maximise its discoverability and usability. In response to this, ENA has been introducing and improving checklists for use during submission and expanding its search facilities to provide targeted search results. Here, we give a brief update on ENA content and some major developments undertaken in data submission services during 2014. We then describe in more detail the services we offer for data discovery and retrieval.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Secuencia de Bases , Genómica , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Análisis de Secuencia
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 42(Database issue): D38-43, 2014 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24214989

RESUMEN

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is a repository for the world public domain nucleotide sequence data output. ENA content covers a spectrum of data types including raw reads, assembly data and functional annotation. ENA has faced a dramatic growth in genome assembly submission rates, data volumes and complexity of datasets. This has prompted a broad reworking of assembly submission services, for which we now reach the end of a major programme of work and many enhancements have already been made available over the year to components of the submission service. In this article, we briefly review ENA content and growth over 2013, describe our rapidly developing services for genome assembly information and outline further major developments over the last year.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Genómica , Europa (Continente) , Internet
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 41(Database issue): D30-5, 2013 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23203883

RESUMEN

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/) collects, maintains and presents comprehensive nucleic acid sequence and related information as part of the permanent public scientific record. Here, we provide brief updates on ENA content developments and major service enhancements in 2012 and describe in more detail two important areas of development and policy that are driven by ongoing growth in sequencing technologies. First, we describe the ENA data warehouse, a resource for which we provide a programmatic entry point to integrated content across the breadth of ENA. Second, we detail our plans for the deployment of CRAM data compression technology in ENA.


Asunto(s)
Secuencia de Bases , Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Compresión de Datos , Genómica , Secuenciación de Nucleótidos de Alto Rendimiento , Internet , Interfaz Usuario-Computador
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 40(Database issue): D43-7, 2012 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22080548

RESUMEN

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena), Europe's primary nucleotide sequence resource, captures and presents globally comprehensive nucleic acid sequence and associated information. Covering the spectrum from raw data to assembled and functionally annotated genomes, the ENA has witnessed a dramatic growth resulting from advances in sequencing technology and ever broadening application of the methodology. During 2011, we have continued to operate and extend the broad range of ENA services. In particular, we have released major new functionality in our interactive web submission system, Webin, through developments in template-based submissions for annotated sequences and support for raw next-generation sequence read submissions.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Análisis de Secuencia de ADN , Análisis de Secuencia de ARN , Genómica , Secuenciación de Nucleótidos de Alto Rendimiento , Internet , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Programas Informáticos , Interfaz Usuario-Computador
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 39(Database issue): D28-31, 2011 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20972220

RESUMEN

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is Europe's primary nucleotide-sequence repository. The ENA consists of three main databases: the Sequence Read Archive (SRA), the Trace Archive and EMBL-Bank. The objective of ENA is to support and promote the use of nucleotide sequencing as an experimental research platform by providing data submission, archive, search and download services. In this article, we outline these services and describe major changes and improvements introduced during 2010. These include extended EMBL-Bank and SRA-data submission services, extended ENA Browser functionality, support for submitting data to the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) through SRA, and the launch of a new sequence similarity search service.


Asunto(s)
Secuencia de Bases , Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Europa (Continente) , Secuenciación de Nucleótidos de Alto Rendimiento , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular
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Sci Data ; 10(1): 265, 2023 05 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37164979

RESUMEN

Oceanographic changes adjacent to Antarctica have global climatic and ecological impacts. However, this is the most challenging place in the world to obtain marine data due to its remoteness and inhospitable nature, especially in winter. Here, we present more than 2000 Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) profiles and associated water sample data collected with (almost uniquely) full year-round coverage from the British Antarctic Survey Rothera Research Station at the west Antarctic Peninsula. Sampling is conducted from a small boat or a sled, depending on the sea ice conditions. When conditions allow, sampling is twice weekly in summer and weekly in winter, with profiling to nominally 500 m and with discrete water samples taken at 15 m water depth. Daily observations are made of the sea ice conditions in the area. This paper presents the first 20 years of data collection, 1997-2017. This time series represents a unique and valuable resource for investigations of the high-latitude ocean's role in climate change, ocean/ice interactions, and marine biogeochemistry and carbon drawdown.

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Nucleic Acids Res ; 38(Database issue): D39-45, 2010 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19906712

RESUMEN

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena) is Europe's primary nucleotide sequence archival resource, safeguarding open nucleotide data access, engaging in worldwide collaborative data exchange and integrating with the scientific publication process. ENA has made significant contributions to the collaborative nucleotide archival arena as an active proponent of extending the traditional collaboration to cover capillary and next-generation sequencing information. We have continued to co-develop data and metadata representation formats with our collaborators for both data exchange and public data dissemination. In addition to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank feature table format, we share metadata formats for capillary and next-generation sequencing traces and are using and contributing to the NCBI SRA Toolkit for the long-term storage of the next-generation sequence traces. During the course of 2009, ENA has significantly improved sequence submission, search and access functionalities provided at EMBL-EBI. In this article, we briefly describe the content and scope of our archive and introduce major improvements to our services.


Asunto(s)
Biología Computacional/métodos , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos , Acceso a la Información , Algoritmos , Animales , Biología Computacional/tendencias , ADN/genética , Europa (Continente) , Humanos , Almacenamiento y Recuperación de la Información/métodos , Internet , Programas Informáticos
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Patterns (N Y) ; 3(10): 100554, 2022 Oct 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36277813

RESUMEN

Scientific sampling of zooplankton in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean has been undertaken since the 1920s, but few analyzed datasets are available to the research community. We provide a database of standardized data derived from samples collected by Bongo nets in this sector between 1996 and 2013, amounting to almost 94,000 individual records. The study region contains some of the highest levels of pelagic biomass in the Southern Ocean and is also undergoing rapid ocean warming and changing seasonality in sea-ice distribution. Data from a single expedition to the sub-Arctic where the same sampling methodology was used are also included. Atlantic water is an increasing influence in that region, as is the prevalence of boreal plankton taxa within Arctic plankton communities. These data will be of value in supporting studies assessing the impacts of climate change on the structure and function of polar pelagic systems.

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Patterns (N Y) ; 3(10): 100566, 2022 Oct 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36277822

RESUMEN

Global access to accurate biodiversity data is a prerequisite to our progress in understanding biodiversity dynamics in ecosystems and any changes that are occurring. Despite recent major advancements in sharing data on the world's species, one of the remaining challenges relates to the mechanics of guiding data systematically from its provenance to end users. It can take considerable effort to orchestrate a successful sampling campaign, manage samples obtained in often extreme, remote conditions and to secure preservation of, and access to, the acquired data. Here, we briefly describe biodiversity data flow from a polar ship to a national data repository and onward to a global data portal. This paper highlights a few crucial points in this process, which aims to provide information systematically into the mosaic of our polar species biodiversity knowledge. This flexible workflow can be modified for other data types and adopted by other data repositories.

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Gigascience ; 6(8): 1-11, 2017 08 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28637310

RESUMEN

Metagenomics data analyses from independent studies can only be compared if the analysis workflows are described in a harmonized way. In this overview, we have mapped the landscape of data standards available for the description of essential steps in metagenomics: (i) material sampling, (ii) material sequencing, (iii) data analysis, and (iv) data archiving and publishing. Taking examples from marine research, we summarize essential variables used to describe material sampling processes and sequencing procedures in a metagenomics experiment. These aspects of metagenomics dataset generation have been to some extent addressed by the scientific community, but greater awareness and adoption is still needed. We emphasize the lack of standards relating to reporting how metagenomics datasets are analysed and how the metagenomics data analysis outputs should be archived and published. We propose best practice as a foundation for a community standard to enable reproducibility and better sharing of metagenomics datasets, leading ultimately to greater metagenomics data reuse and repurposing.


Asunto(s)
Biología Computacional/métodos , Biología Computacional/normas , Metagenómica/métodos , Metagenómica/normas , Minería de Datos/métodos , Minería de Datos/normas , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Metagenoma , Análisis de Secuencia/métodos , Análisis de Secuencia/normas , Flujo de Trabajo
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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26861660

RESUMEN

Discoverability of sequence data in primary data archives is proportional to the richness of contextual information associated with the data. Here, we describe an exercise in the improvement of contextual information surrounding sample records associated with metagenomics sequence reads available in the European Nucleotide Archive. We outline the annotation process and summarize findings of this effort aimed at increasing usability of publicly available environmental data. Furthermore, we emphasize the benefits of such an exercise and detail its costs. We conclude that such a third party annotation approach is expensive and has value as an element of curation, but should form only part of a more sustainable submitter-driven approach. Database URL: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena.


Asunto(s)
Biología Computacional/economía , Bases de Datos de Ácidos Nucleicos/economía , Metagenómica , Recolección de Datos , Ecosistema , Europa (Continente) , Geografía , Humanos , Microbiota , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Semántica , Análisis de Secuencia
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Stand Genomic Sci ; 10: 20, 2015.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26203332

RESUMEN

Contextual data collected concurrently with molecular samples are critical to the use of metagenomics in the fields of marine biodiversity, bioinformatics and biotechnology. We present here Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (M2B3) standards for "Reporting" and "Serving" data. The M2B3 Reporting Standard (1) describes minimal mandatory and recommended contextual information for a marine microbial sample obtained in the epipelagic zone, (2) includes meaningful information for researchers in the oceanographic, biodiversity and molecular disciplines, and (3) can easily be adopted by any marine laboratory with minimum sampling resources. The M2B3 Service Standard defines a software interface through which these data can be discovered and explored in data repositories. The M2B3 Standards were developed by the European project Micro B3, funded under 7(th) Framework Programme "Ocean of Tomorrow", and were first used with the Ocean Sampling Day initiative. We believe that these standards have value in broader marine science.

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J Exp Bot ; 58(10): 2525-35, 2007.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17576762

RESUMEN

Jasmonates are signals in plant stress responses and development. The exact mode of their action is still controversial. To modulate jasmonate levels intracellularly as well as compartment-specifically, transgenic Nicotiana tabacum plants expressing single-chain antibodies selected against the naturally occurring (3R,7R)-enantiomer of jasmonic acid (JA) were created in the cytosol and the endoplasmic reticulum. Consequently, the expression of anti-JA antibodies in planta caused JA-deficient phenotypes such as insensitivity of germinating transgenic seedlings towards methyl jasmonate and the loss of wound-induced gene expression. Results presented here suggest an essential role for cytosolic JA in the wound response of tobacco plants. The findings support the view that substrate availability takes part in regulating JA biosynthesis upon wounding. Moreover, high JA levels observed in immunomodulated plants in response to wounding suggest that tobacco plants are able to perceive a reduced level of physiologically active JA and attempt to compensate for this by increased JA accumulation.


Asunto(s)
Ciclopentanos/metabolismo , Nicotiana/genética , Oxilipinas/metabolismo , Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente/fisiología , Anticuerpos , Citosol/metabolismo , Retículo Endoplásmico/metabolismo , Germinación , Plantas Modificadas Genéticamente/metabolismo
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