Exploring and retrieving sequence and metadata for species across the tree of life with NCBI Datasets

To explore complex biological questions, it is often necessary to access various data types from public data repositories. As the volume and complexity of biological sequence data grow, public repositories face significant challenges in ensuring that the data is easily discoverable and usable by the...

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Published in:	Scientific data Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 732 - 10
Main Authors:	O’Leary, Nuala A., Cox, Eric, Holmes, J. Bradley, Anderson, W. Ray, Falk, Robert, Hem, Vichet, Tsuchiya, Mirian T. N., Schuler, Gregory D., Zhang, Xuan, Torcivia, John, Ketter, Anne, Breen, Laurie, Cothran, Jonathan, Bajwa, Hena, Tinne, Jovany, Meric, Peter A., Hlavina, Wratko, Schneider, Valerie A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 05-07-2024 Nature Publishing Group Nature Portfolio
Subjects:	631/114 631/337 631/61 Biotechnology Databases, Genetic Datasets Humanities and Social Sciences Information Storage and Retrieval Metadata multidisciplinary Science Science (multidisciplinary) United States United States
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Summary:	To explore complex biological questions, it is often necessary to access various data types from public data repositories. As the volume and complexity of biological sequence data grow, public repositories face significant challenges in ensuring that the data is easily discoverable and usable by the biological research community. To address these challenges, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has created NCBI Datasets. This resource provides straightforward, comprehensive, and scalable access to biological sequences, annotations, and metadata for a wide range of taxa. Following the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data management principles, NCBI Datasets offers user-friendly web interfaces, command-line tools, and documented APIs, empowering researchers to access NCBI data seamlessly. The data is delivered as packages of sequences and metadata, thus facilitating improved data retrieval, sharing, and usability in research. Moreover, this data delivery method fosters effective data attribution and promotes its further reuse. This paper outlines the current scope of data accessible through NCBI Datasets and explains various options for exploring and downloading the data.
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ISSN:	2052-4463 2052-4463
DOI:	10.1038/s41597-024-03571-y