ENA captures, preserves and presents the world's nucleotide sequence data. New content is included in ENA on a continuous basis and are distributed daily from our browser and RESTful service. The ENA assembled/annotated sequence release provides a quarterly snapshot of content in this important subset of ENA.
As previously announced, the last release in its current form will be release 143 in March 2020. New data is already included in the ENA on a continuous basis and distributed daily from our browser, FTP and RESTful API services. The key change is that we will no longer make an additional separate quarterly release of the assembled/annotated subset of sequences. We will focus our resources on further developing and supporting our continuous distribution presentation products.
If you currently rely on any aspect of the separate assembled/annotated sequence release process for your work or resource, and cannot switch to one of our continuous distribution processes described in the above guide, please contact us urgently listing what features you utilised from the release process. Please contact us with your questions or concerns at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/support with the subject ‘ENA release retirement’.