FAQ

Previous versions of sequence data are available by using getentry webAPI.

See gethistory on getentry HELP.

It is getentry.
"getentry" is a system for data retrieval by accession numbers, etc.
In general, the sequence data will be available on getentry from the day after processed to release.

“Newly arrived DDBJ data (new data that have arrived after a scheduled DDBJ release)” are data made publicly available on the next day of the deadline or after for the most recent DDBJ release. The deadlines for the most recent releases are listed in the text of the release notes. For example, if the most recent release were Release 67, then the deadline would be 8/25/2006, as stated below; thus, in this case, “newly arrived DDBJ data” would be data made publicly available after 8/26/2006.

The DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank data banks share the sequences stored within each data bank, and in principle all three data banks should contain the same data. However, due to time delays in the inter-data-bank sharing of data released by individual data banks, as well as delays between the time at which data are entered into a data bank and the time at which the data are reflected in the corresponding search service, searches conducted using different services at the similar time on the same day may yield slightly different results. If you do not obtain the search results that you were expecting, time delays of this sort are the most likely culprit; however, for cases requiring a more detailed investigation, please contact the DDBJ via the “Other general questions” section of the contact portal. In this case, make sure to specify the following information:

• The name of the search program and/or the URL that you used to conduct the search.
• The search conditions that you used.
• The date and time at which you conducted the search.
• Accession number of the entry that should have been found.
• URL of the search results.
• Any other relevant information.

Also, please see the sections of this document corresponding to the following questions.

• Can not find the sequence data, though the accession number cited on a paper.
• I am having trouble finding an accession number that should be publicly available.

See How to Create Links to DDBJ Entries.

To get a FASTA format of TSA or WGS entries, please use "getentry", specifying the following values.

 ID : Specify the Accession Number.
 Output format : Select "total nt seq FASTA" for the result.
 Result : Select one from the following filetype for the output.

• html
• text
• compress (gz)

 Limit : Set an upper limit number of the result.
               When you specify the Limit "0", there is no upper limit of the data acquisition.

For more information about each value, please see getenry HELP.

Please see the following video as well.