Genome Warehouse: A Public Repository Housing Genome-scale Data

Abstract

The Genome Warehouse (GWH) is a public repository housing genome assembly data for a wide range of species and delivering a series of web services for genome data submission, storage, release, and sharing. As one of the core resources in the National Genomics Data Center (NGDC), part of the China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB, https://bigd.big.ac.cn/), GWH accepts both full genome and partial genome (chloroplast, mitochondrion, and plasmid) sequences with different assembly levels, as well as an update of existing genome assemblies. For each assembly, GWH collects detailed genome-related metadata including biological project and sample, and genome assembly information, in addition to genome sequence and annotation. To archive high-quality genome sequences and annotations, GWH is equipped with a uniform and standardized procedure for quality control. Besides basic browse and search functionalities, all released genome sequences and annotations can be visualized with JBrowse. By December 2020, GWH has received 17,264 direct submissions covering a diversity of 949 species, and has released 3370 of them. Collectively, GWH serves as an important resource for genome-scale data management and provides free and publicly accessible data to support research activities throughout the world. GWH is publicly accessible at https://bigd.big.ac.cn/gwh/.