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Submit to the world's largest public repository of biological and scientific information
SRA is an open access archive of minimally-processed read data from high throughput platforms.
Prepare the following information for your submission and be ready to:
Watch a 10 min video tutorial.
For a new project, prepare the information that creates a BioProject.
Required information:
Optional information:
Important: The required BioProject and BioSample can be created during submission. You can also link an existing BioProject and BioSample with accession numbers.
For new samples, prepare the details that will serve as BioSamples' metadata for individual biological specimens (collection date, location, etc.).
Prepare the following 'Library' information:
Ensure the file name(s) you choose do not contain any sensitive information. File names as submitted appear publicly on the Google and AWS clouds.
Upload data files for your SRA submission. There are several options available:
Please note that your uploaded file names should be an exact match to the file names listed on the 'Metadata' tab, including file extension.
Submit your sequence data on desktop. The desktop view allows you to easily:
No, you can create a BioProject and BioSamples as part of your SRA Submission. Please indicate that you have not previously registered these objects when asked and the submission wizard will prompt you to enter that information along with the rest of your submission metadata.
Yes, you can release your data or update the release date from 'Manage data' tab. Select the BioProject related to the data you would like to release, then click the ‘Edit’ button next to ‘Release date.’ Follow the prompts there to update your release date.
To add data to an existing BioProject, please create a new SRA submission and enter the BioProject accession (looks like PRJNA#) when asked. This will ensure the new data is linked to the existing BioProject.
You can generate a reviewer metadata link from the 'Manage data' tab. From this interface, navigate to the BioProject page for the pertinent dataset, then click the 'Create Reviewer Link' button to the right of the BioProject accession near the top of the page. Share data with colleagues or your publisher's reviewer.
SRA users are able to see all the metadata describing your data files and they will be able to retrieve the original submitted files with their original file names. SRA users will also be able to retrieve the standardized SRA version of your data files.
Yes, you may collaborate on your submissions by using a submission group. Shared submission groups give multiple submitters access to submission data in the Submission Portal and Manage Data. A shared submission group consists of multiple NCBI accounts within the Submission Portal, all of which have permissions-based access to submissions associated with the group. Learn more.
GenBank is the world's largest nucleotide archive containing sequences from all branches of life. The archive is a foundation for medical and biological discovery.
Submit assembled SARS-CoV-2, Influenza, Norovirus, Dengue virus, rRNA, rRNA-ITS, metazoan COX1, Eukaryotic nuclear mRNA sequences.
Submit genomic DNA, organelle, ncRNA, plasmids, other viruses, phages, other mRNA, synthetic constructs.
Submit assembled prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes.
SRA is the largest publicly-available repository of high throughput sequencing data. The archive accepts data from all branches of life as well as metagenomic and environmental surveys.
Submit unassembled, high throughput sequencing reads
Submit computationally assembled, transcribed RNA sequences after submitting unassembled reads to SRA. Learn more
Submit RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, and other types of gene expression and epigenomics datasets. Learn more
Choose a tool above if submitting sequence data. Learn more
Submit clinical data, small & large human genomics variants, and genotype & phenotype data.