The Genome Sequence Archive Family: Toward Explosive Data Growth and Diverse Data Types

🤖 Plain-English Summary

The Genome Sequence Archive (GSA) is a data repository for archiving raw sequence data, which provides data storage and sharing services for worldwide scientific communities. OMIX, as a critical complement to the two resources mentioned above, is an open archive for miscellaneous data.

🔑 Key Findings

• Considering explosive data growth with diverse data types, here we present the GSA family by expanding into a set of resources for raw data archive with different purposes, namely, GSA (https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gsa/), GSA for Human (GSA-Human, https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gsa-human/), and Open Archive for Miscellaneous Data (OMIX, https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/omix/).
• Compared with the 2017 version, GSA has been significantly updated in data model, online functionalities, and web interfaces.
• GSA-Human, as a new partner of GSA, is a data repository specialized in human genetics-related data with controlled access and security.

🔗 Related Resources