Submission Portal
Submit to the world's largest public repository of biological and scientific information
What do you want to submit?
Enter a few words about your data and select an option to learn more.
Submit to SRA
The Sequence Read Archive (SRA) accepts minimally-processed sequence reads from all branches of life as well as metagenomic and environmental surveys.
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SRA
Submit unassembled, high throughput sequencing reads.
Submit to GenBank
Review the three GenBank submission paths below to select the appropriate option for your data.
GenBank
Use the Submission Portal-GenBank to submit assembled nucleotide sequences, except for prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes and transcriptomes.
GenBank-Genome
Submit assembled prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes.
GenBank-TSA
Submit computationally assembled, transcribed RNA sequences (transcriptomes) after submitting reads to SRA.
Resources for sequence submitters
- Public Health submitter guidance
Best practices and recommendations for public health submitters - About submission groups
Learn what submission groups are, when to use them, and how to manage them -
BioProject and BioSample
Learn more and submit.
Submit human variation, phenotype data, and testing descriptions
ClinVar
Submit human genomic variants classified for inherited diseases, cancer, or drug responses and the evidence for classification.
GTR
Submit genetic tests for inherited diseases, cancer phenotypes, pharmacogenomics, complex diseases, and infectious agents, that clinicians can order from your lab.
Human Variation
Submit genetic variants and frequency data to dbSNP for SNVs and to dbVar for structural variants.
dbGaP
Submit individual-level phenotype, molecular, and sequence data from human-subject research studies, along with genomic summary results.
Submit BioProject and BioSample
BioProject
Submit a research study for your sample and sequence data.
BioSample
Submit sample/source metadata.
Submit to other NLM resources
GEO
Submit RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, and other types of gene expression and epigenomics datasets.
Clinical Trials
The ClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS) to submit clinical study and results information.
Manuscripts
Submit peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central (PMC), as required by the public access policies of NIH and other PMC-participating funders.
PubChem
Submit chemical substances and their biological experimental results.
Sequence submission FAQ
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An accession number in bioinformatics is a unique identifier given to a DNA or protein sequence record to allow for tracking of different versions of that sequence record and the associated sequence over time in a single data repository. Because of its relative stability, accession numbers can be utilized as foreign keys for referring to a sequence object, but not necessarily to a unique sequence. All sequence information repositories implement the concept of "accession number" but might do so with subtle variation.
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Please read the NLM GenBank and SRA Data Processing document which describes how sequence data are processed and made available to the public, responsibilities of the data submitter, responsibilities of NCBI, and defines data status. You may write to info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov if you have questions about your submitted data or if you have questions about the document.