Bixia Tang

TL;DR: In the era of big data, GSA is not only an important complement to existing INSDC members by alleviating the increasing burdens of handling sequence data deluge, but also takes the significant responsibility for global big data archive and provides free unrestricted access to all publicly available data in support of research activities throughout the world.

TL;DR: The Genome Sequence Archive (GSA) as discussed by the authors is a data repository for archiving raw sequence data, which provides data storage and sharing services for worldwide scientific communities, considering explosive data growth with diverse data types, here we present the GSA family by expanding into a set of resources for raw data archive with different purposes.

TL;DR: In the past year, efforts for update have been mainly devoted to BioProject, BioSample, GSA, GWH, GVM, NONCODE, LncBook, EWAS Atlas and IC4R, while four web services have been significantly improved and enhanced.

TL;DR: The BIG Data Center at Beijing Institute of Genomics provides a suite of database resources in support of worldwide research activities in both academia and industry, and the Open Biodiversity and Health Big Data initiative is introduced.

TL;DR: The BIG Data Center is continually expanding, updating and enriching its core database resources through big-data integration and value-added curation, including BioCode (a repository archiving bioinformatics tool codes), Bio project library, Bio sample library, and Science Wikis.