Table 1.

ENA-Annotation and ENA-Assembly data classes

Data class	Description
Expressed sequence tag (EST)	High-throughput short transcribed cDNA (mRNA) sequences
Genome survey sequence (GSS)	High-throughput short genomic sequences
High throughput cDNA sequencing (HTC)	Unfinished cDNA (mRNA) sequences
High throughput genome sequencing (HTG)	Unfinished genomic sequences
Patent sequence (PAT)	Patent sequences
Sequenced tagged site (STS)	Short unique genomic sequences
Standard sequence (STD)	High-quality annotated sequences
Third party annotation sequence (TPA)	Re-annotated and re-assembled sequences
Transcriptome shotgun assembly (TSA)	Computationally assembled sequences
Whole genome shotgun (WGS)	Shotgun sequences
Constructed sequences (CON)	Sequence assemblies primarily from WGS sequences