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ENA Portal API boundary

Official-source access, authentication, request-shaping, freshness, legal, and interpretation boundaries for ENA Portal API.

version 1.0.0freshness currentobserved 2026-08-28T15:06:26Z

resource.public-data.ena-portal-api
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Evidence-backed facts

  1. The ENA Portal API exposes nucleotide-sequence, assembly, study, sample, experiment, run, analysis, and taxonomic metadata through query, search, and report endpoints. informative
  2. Public archive reads require no user credential, while submission and private-data access use separate Webin authentication that must not appear in public records. informative
  3. Clients must bind result type, query language, fields, format, limit, offset, sorting, and download mode and should use documented field and result vocabularies. informative
  4. Submitted and derived records can be updated, suppressed, embargoed, reassembled, or misannotated and do not prove sequence quality, biological function, sample identity, or clinical validity. informative

Primary sources

ENA Portal API

European Nucleotide Archive at EMBL-EBI · observed 2026-08-28T15:06:26Z