Table 1.

Relevant URLs and emails for EMBL nucleotide sequence database

Access	URL of emails	Comments
Submissions
New submissions	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Submission/webin.html	For direct submissions of small-scale sequencing projects, bulk data (e.g. rRNA and EST), large genomes, TPA, etc.
Updates	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/webin/update.html	For updates to existing entries
Project accounts and WGS submissions	datasubs@ebi.ac.uk	Contact database to request project account or WGS submission
Retrieval
SRS	http://srs.ebi.ac.uk	Data retrieval by term search and through links to/from other databases
Homology search	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/similarity.html	Data retrieval by sequence similarity and homology
SVA	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/sva/sva.pl	Access to current and historic data by accession number or protein_id
FTP	ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/	Access to release, update, EMBL CDS, etc. data in the flatfile format and XML format
Genomes	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/genomes/	Completed genomes, links out to proteomes, Integr8 data, etc.
Dbfetch	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/emblfetch	Retrieval by accession number through web browser
Wsdbfetch	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/WSDbfetch.html	Retrieval by accession number through web service
Netserv	netserv@ebi.ac.uk	Data via email
Access via map	http://www3.ebi.ac.uk/Services/EMBLWorld/EMBLWorld.pl	Geographical origin of sequenced samples
Custom datasets	datasubs@ebi.ac.uk	Request a datasets not yet provided in the course of normal productions
General
General information	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/	Website, including all documents
News	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/News/news.html	Database news
Forthcoming changes	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/forthcomingchanges.html	Forthcoming data and format changes
Database statistics	http://www3.ebi.ac.uk/Services/DBStats/	Various statistics, updated daily
XML documentation	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/embl/Documentation/xml/	INSDC and EMBL documentation
Specific help	datasubs@ebi.ac.uk