Owing to a scheduled cluster downtime and maintenance at European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), all ENA submissions will be paused between Monday 19th August, 2024 and Thursday 22nd August, 2024.
Submissions will resume on Friday 23rd August, 2024.
Apologies for the disruption.
The COPO (Collaborative OPen Omics) platform has taken a significant step forward by integrating Research Object Crate (RO-Crate) into its metadata brokering platform for all submitted samples. This integration aims to enhance the organisation, packaging, and sharing of research data, providing a more efficient and standardised approach for researchers and data stewards alike.
RO-Crate i…
We are thrilled to unveil the newly refactored and redesigned COPO project website, complete with a fresh logo and an updated codebase. The revamped site offers an improved user experience, featuring a sleek design and enhanced functionality.
Explore the new features and discover how COPO continues to support the scientific community with cutting-edge tools and resources.
Tree of Life (ToL) projects brokered through COPO can now process reads, sequencing annotations and assemblies more efficiently than ever.
This advancement supports comprehensive analysis and accelerates research timelines, providing researchers with robust tools to delve deeper into life science and biodiversity research.
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Researchers, metadata providers and metadata submitters can now seamlessly track the status of data file submissions after COPO deposits them to European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) after the data files have been submitted through COPO.
After having uploaded data files and completed metadata submissions in COPO, stay infor…
We are excited to announce the appointment of our new project group leader, Professor Irene Papatheodorou. Irene will be leading a group of skilled data-led scientists as the Head of Data Science at the Earlham Institute, in Norwich, United Kingdom.
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As of 8th October, 2024, the Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) project has successfully brokered an impressive 62,445 samples, underscoring its role as a key player in the research community.
Earlier, as of 3rd July, 2024, the COPO project had brokered 59,521 samples.
These milestones reflect COPO's commitment to fac…
In an effort to improve user support and accessibility, the Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) initiative has launched a comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section on its website.
This new resource addresses common queries and provides detailed answers on topics ranging from account setup to d…
The Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) project is celebrating its 10-year anniversary on 14th September, 2024, marking a decade of advancements in the field of biodiversity research.
Over the past ten years, COPO has become an indispensable tool for researchers worldwide, facilitating data sharing and collaboration across institutions.
To commemorate this milestone, COPO might host e…
The Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) project now has extensive documentation aimed at enhancing user experience, website usability and accessibility.
The documentation covers all aspects of COPO's functionalities, from metadata submissions, data file submissions, permit submissions and image submissions, to advanced features, providing a valuable resource for researchers and scientists in…
You can now customise a locus tag on the Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) platform. Locus tags, according to the definition by European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), are identifiers applied systematically to every gene in a sequencing project.
The customisation of locus tags in COPO…
All Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) services were disrupted for about 2 weeks in May, 2024 due to a technical issue.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that the disruption may have caused.