Submission Overview

Submission of research data from human subjects: For submitting data from human subjects (human data) to the databases of DDBJ center, it is submitter’s responsibility to ensure that the dignity and right of human subject are protected in accordance with all applicable laws, ordinances, guidelines and policies of submitter’s institution. In principle, make sure to remove any direct personal identifiers of human subjects from your data to be submitted. Before submitting human data, read the “Submission of research data from human subjects”.

Submission flow

Submission status

You can monitor the submission process by the submission status. The DRA team reviews submission whose status is in “submission_validated” or “data_error”.

Status	Explanation
new	Metadata has not been submitted.
metadata_submitted	Metadata has been submitted.
data_validating	Validating data files.
data_error	Error occurred in data validation process.
submission_validated	Metadata and data have been validated.
completed	Accession numbers have been issued.
confidential	Archive files has been created and submission is kept private
public	Released to public.
wait_for_release	Within 30 days to publish
canceled	Submission was canceled

Accession numbers

When metadata and sequence data are successfully registered, accession numbers are assigned.

Experiment (prefix DRX)
Run (prefix DRR)
Analysis (prefix DRZ)
Submission (prefix DRA)

Regarding how to cite accession numbers, see “FAQ: Which accession numbers should be cited in publication?”.

Data release

The DRA submission is released according to the data release policy. Please see “FAQ: How are linked BioProject/BioSample/sequence data released?” regarding how linked data are released.
After data release process, data files are released at ftp, indexed by DDBJ Search, and mirrored by NCBI SRA and EBI SRA in a few days.

All data in a submission are released at the same time. If you want to release data at different time, please divide a submission.

Limited-time access to archived data files

To allow submitter to download and check archived fastq/SRA files, the files are copied to the following directories on the ftp-private.ddbj.nig.ac.jp server. To save disk space, the copied files are deleted in one month.

(submitter’s home)/report/dra/(DRA submission accession)/fastq/
(submitter’s home)/report/dra/(DRA submission accession)/sra/

Example: /report/dra/DRA000001/fastq/DRR000001.fastq.bz2

Data update

To change hold date, update metadata, add or delete data files, please see DRA Update.