SeqDesk · original analysis

The world's sequencing facilities, quantified

Who submits the most to the public read archive, where they are, and which platforms they run — measured from ENA (which mirrors much of NCBI SRA).

Updated 2026-09-21 · refreshed weekly from ENA

3.9M

top submitter · Wellcome Sanger Institute

150

active centers (≥100 runs)

profiled · 20 countries

19%

of 44M archive runs

85%

of runs · top 10 centers

What this measures. The only keyless way to rank centers is by what they deposit in the public read archive. center_name is the self-reported submitting center, so this is archive submission activity — heavily European and reshaped by pandemic genomic surveillance — not total sequencing capacity. We list the 150 centers with ≥100 archive runs (of which 61 are profiled in full).

How sequencing platforms were adopted (2010–2025)

Hover the chart to read every named platform's tracked share at that year · hover or click a legend item to isolate one line.

Each line is that platform’s share of the year’s named tracked-platform runs, normalized so every year sums to 100% — the compositional shift, not the volume. Illumina still owns the bulk, but Oxford Nanopore and PacBio carve out a widening slice and BGI/MGI a steady one: by 2025, Nanopore reached 2.5% of the tracked-platform cohort. Each year is the cohort that went public that year, so the curve reflects what was submitted as much as which instruments exist — read the long arc, not single-year wobbles. The separate platform-mix chart includes an explicit Other bucket for the whole archive.

Most active submitting centers · top 50

1. Wellcome Sanger Institute · Hinxton · Research institute

3.9M runs

2. COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) · Cambridge · Consortium

591K runs

3. Statens Serum Institut · Copenhagen · Public health

530K runs

4. University of California San Diego · La Jolla · University

476K runs

5. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard · Cambridge · Research institute

422K runs

6. Baylor College of Medicine (Human Genome Sequencing Center) · Houston · University

162K runs

7. UK Health Security Agency (Colindale) · London · Public health

158K runs

8. Public Health Wales / Pathogen Genomics Unit · Cardiff · Public health

153K runs

9. Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform (SPSP) · Lausanne · Consortium

149K runs

10. ETH Zurich · Zurich · University

127K runs

11. INRAE · Paris · Research institute

117K runs

12. BGI · Shenzhen · Commercial

116K runs

13. CNRS (France) · Paris · National genomics

77K runs

14. Washington University (McDonnell Genome Institute) · St. Louis · University

70K runs

15. Quadram Institute Bioscience · Norwich · Research institute

57K runs

16. Northumbria University / South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust / North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust / North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust / Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · discovered

51K runs

17. New York Genome Center · New York · Research institute

50K runs

18. Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing · National genomics

46K runs

19. Technical University of Denmark (DTU) · Kongens Lyngby · University

46K runs

20. Comenius University Science Park · Bratislava · Research institute

44K runs

21. University of Edinburgh · Edinburgh · University

36K runs

22. Clinical Bioinformatics Area · discovered

36K runs

23. Centre for Genomic Epidemiology, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark · discovered

33K runs

24. University of Copenhagen · Copenhagen · University

32K runs

25. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · Leipzig · Research institute

27K runs

26. Earlham Institute · Norwich · Research institute

26K runs

27. University of Vienna · Vienna · University

26K runs

28. Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen · Tübingen · Research institute

25K runs

29. DOE Joint Genome Institute · Berkeley · National genomics

24K runs

30. The Roslin Institute (University of Edinburgh) · Edinburgh · Research institute

22K runs

31. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute · Cambridge · Research institute

22K runs

32. University College London (Great Ormond Street) · London · University

19K runs

33. Liverpool Clinical Laboratories · discovered

18K runs

34. Norwegian University of Life Sciences · Ås · University

18K runs

35. Erasmus MC · Rotterdam · Hospital / clinical

17K runs

36. University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · discovered

16K runs

37. University Hospital Basel · Basel · Hospital / clinical

15K runs

38. University of Exeter · Exeter · University

15K runs

39. Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) · Geneva · Hospital / clinical

14K runs

40. Oxford Viromics, NDM, University of Oxford Oxford University Hospitals Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital · discovered

14K runs

41. University of Birmingham · Birmingham · University

13K runs

42. Genome Institute of Singapore · Singapore · National genomics

13K runs

43. University of Melbourne · Melbourne · University

13K runs

44. University Hospital Düsseldorf · Düsseldorf · Hospital / clinical

13K runs

45. University of Cambridge (Dept. of Pathology) · Cambridge · University

12K runs

46. University of Zurich · Zurich · University

12K runs

47. Southern University of Science and Technology · discovered

12K runs

48. Virology Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust/Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, The Medical School, University of Sheffield · discovered

11K runs

49. Dutch COVID-19 response team · discovered

11K runs

50. Virology Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian / School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh · discovered

11K runs

Wellcome Sanger Institute leads with 3,852,748 runs — the alias-merged total of its 5 submitting-center spellings in ENA.

Among the 61 profiled centers, the top 10 account for 85% of runs (HHI 2659) and the single leader for 50% — concentration measured among profiled centers, not the whole archive.

All submitting centers (150)

Every center_name with ≥100 archive runs, ranked by run count. 61 profiled centers are alias-merged and annotated; the 89 discovered names are raw and not alias-merged, so the same institution can appear under more than one spelling. A further 740+ one-off submitters fall below the floor.

Profiled only150 of 150 shown

#	Center	Country	Type	Founded	Top platform	Runs ↓
1	Wellcome Sanger Institute	United Kingdom	Research institute	1992	Illumina	3,852,748
2	COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)	United Kingdom	Consortium	2020	Illumina	591,173
3	Statens Serum Institut	Denmark	Public health	1902	Illumina	529,799
4	University of California San Diego	United States	University	1960	Illumina	475,516
5	Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	United States	Research institute	2004	Illumina	421,703
6	Baylor College of Medicine (Human Genome Sequencing Center)	United States	University	1996	Illumina	161,637
7	UK Health Security Agency (Colindale)	United Kingdom	Public health	2021	Oxford Nanopore	158,115
8	Public Health Wales / Pathogen Genomics Unit	United Kingdom	Public health	2018	Illumina	153,089
9	Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform (SPSP)	Switzerland	Consortium	2021	Illumina	149,406
10	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	University	1855	Illumina	127,091
11	INRAE	France	Research institute	2020	Illumina	117,237
12	BGI	China	Commercial	1999	Illumina	115,869
13	CNRS (France)	France	National genomics	1939	Illumina	76,992
14	Washington University (McDonnell Genome Institute)	United States	University	1993	Illumina	69,745
15	Quadram Institute Bioscience	United Kingdom	Research institute	2017	Illumina	57,239
16	Northumbria University / South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust / North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust / North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust / Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	—	discovered	—	—	50,769
17	New York Genome Center	United States	Research institute	2011	Illumina	50,440
18	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	National genomics	1949	Illumina	46,491
19	Technical University of Denmark (DTU)	Denmark	University	1829	Illumina	46,259
20	Comenius University Science Park	Slovakia	Research institute	2015	Illumina	43,836
21	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	University	1583	Illumina	36,466
22	Clinical Bioinformatics Area	—	discovered	—	—	35,611
23	Centre for Genomic Epidemiology, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	—	discovered	—	—	33,362
24	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	University	1479	Illumina	31,508
25	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology	Germany	Research institute	1997	Illumina	27,493
26	Earlham Institute	United Kingdom	Research institute	2009	Illumina	26,347
27	University of Vienna	Austria	University	1365	Illumina	26,005
28	Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen	Germany	Research institute	1954	Illumina	25,026
29	DOE Joint Genome Institute	United States	National genomics	1997	Illumina	24,083
30	The Roslin Institute (University of Edinburgh)	United Kingdom	Research institute	1993	Illumina	21,692
31	Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute	United Kingdom	Research institute	2007	Illumina	21,629
32	University College London (Great Ormond Street)	United Kingdom	University	1826	Illumina	18,593
33	Liverpool Clinical Laboratories	—	discovered	—	—	18,239
34	Norwegian University of Life Sciences	Norway	University	1859	Illumina	17,842
35	Erasmus MC	Netherlands	Hospital / clinical	2002	Oxford Nanopore	17,089
36	University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	—	discovered	—	—	16,073
37	University Hospital Basel	Switzerland	Hospital / clinical	1865	Illumina	15,287
38	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	University	1955	Illumina	14,866
39	Geneva University Hospitals (HUG)	Switzerland	Hospital / clinical	1995	Illumina	14,273
40	Oxford Viromics, NDM, University of Oxford Oxford University Hospitals Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital	—	discovered	—	—	13,592
41	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	University	1900	Illumina	13,193
42	Genome Institute of Singapore	Singapore	National genomics	2000	Illumina	13,106
43	University of Melbourne	Australia	University	1853	Illumina	12,788
44	University Hospital Düsseldorf	Germany	Hospital / clinical	1907	Oxford Nanopore	12,684
45	University of Cambridge (Dept. of Pathology)	United Kingdom	University	1883	Oxford Nanopore	12,490
46	University of Zurich	Switzerland	University	1833	Illumina	12,226
47	Southern University of Science and Technology	—	discovered	—	—	11,806
48	Virology Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust/Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, The Medical School, University of Sheffield	—	discovered	—	—	11,482
49	Dutch COVID-19 response team	—	discovered	—	—	11,303
50	Virology Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian / School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh	—	discovered	—	—	11,274
51	Aalborg University	Denmark	University	1974	Illumina	10,648
52	NMBU	—	discovered	—	—	9,816
53	Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre	Latvia	Research institute	1993	Illumina	9,670
54	University of Bern (Institute for Infectious Diseases)	Switzerland	University	1899	Illumina	9,650
55	CERTH — Institute of Applied Biosciences	Greece	Research institute	2012	Illumina	9,246
56	Laboratory of genomics and metagenomics, Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Centre and University of Lausanne, Switzerland	—	discovered	—	—	9,131
57	'Laboratory of genomics and metagenomics, Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Centre and University of Lausanne, Switzerland'	—	discovered	—	—	9,131
58	Stanford University School of Medicine	United States	University	1908	Illumina	7,950
59	University of Oxford (Nuffield Dept. of Medicine)	United Kingdom	University	1096	Oxford Nanopore	7,810
60	THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE	—	discovered	—	—	7,627
61	Robert Koch Institute	Germany	Public health	1891	Oxford Nanopore	7,369
62	ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY	—	discovered	—	—	6,872
63	SSI	—	discovered	—	—	6,743
64	University of Nottingham (DeepSeq)	United Kingdom	University	1881	Oxford Nanopore	6,600
65	MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research	—	discovered	—	—	6,341
66	Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology	Germany	Research institute	1992	Illumina	5,953
67	University of Tartu (Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine)	Estonia	University	1632	Illumina	5,776
68	West of Scotland Specialist Virology Centre, NHSGGC / MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research	—	discovered	—	—	5,761
69	UK Health Security Agency	—	discovered	—	—	5,745
70	Wageningen University (Laboratory of Microbiology)	Netherlands	University	1917	Illumina	5,524
71	TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN	—	discovered	—	—	5,338
72	Laboratorio di Microbiologia, Dipartimento di Medicina di Laboratorio EOLAB, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland	—	discovered	—	—	5,240
73	UKHSA	—	discovered	—	—	5,194
74	HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS	—	discovered	—	—	5,008
75	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - DAVIS	—	discovered	—	—	4,879
76	University of Geneva	Switzerland	University	1559	Illumina	4,338
77	UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	—	discovered	—	—	4,250
78	Medisupport	—	discovered	—	—	4,206
79	University of Helsinki (Institute of Biotechnology)	Finland	University	1989	Illumina	3,974
80	UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED	—	discovered	—	—	3,930
81	Hopital du Valais, Institut Central des Hopitaux, Sion, Switzerland	—	discovered	—	—	3,890
82	'Hopital du Valais, Institut Central des Hopitaux, Sion, Switzerland'	—	discovered	—	—	3,890
83	Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland	—	discovered	—	—	3,797
84	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	United States	Hospital / clinical	1884	Illumina	3,713
85	Macrogen	South Korea	Commercial	1997	Illumina	3,429
86	Centre for Enzyme Innovation, University of Portsmouth / Translational Research Laboratory, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust / Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust / Bournemouth University / University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust / Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust / Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust / Isle of Wight NHS Trust / Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust / University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust	—	discovered	—	—	3,429
87	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	—	discovered	—	—	3,272
88	UC-BERKELEY	—	discovered	—	—	3,158
89	Center for Laboratory Medicine St. Gallen	—	discovered	—	—	3,020
90	APC Microbiome Institute	—	discovered	—	—	2,946
91	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	University	1827	Illumina	2,719
92	Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University	—	discovered	—	—	2,328
93	INRAE Ile de France Jouy en Josas - Antony	—	discovered	—	—	2,233
94	SRO	—	discovered	—	—	2,178
95	Radboud University	—	discovered	—	—	2,101
96	Barts Health NHS Trust	United Kingdom	Hospital / clinical	2012	Illumina	2,068
97	URMITE	—	discovered	—	—	2,053
98	CEBITEC	—	discovered	—	—	1,875
99	Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics	—	discovered	—	—	1,822
100	NIOZ	—	discovered	—	—	1,770
101	Netherlands Institute for Sea Research	—	discovered	—	—	1,770
102	COVID-HUB-PL	—	discovered	—	—	1,730
103	Center for Microbial Communities	—	discovered	—	—	1,671
104	NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE	—	discovered	—	—	1,614
105	Modernising Medical Microbiology	—	discovered	—	—	1,484
106	State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity	—	discovered	—	—	1,460
107	IHU - Mediterranee Infection	—	discovered	—	—	1,435
108	the seqafrica consortium	—	discovered	—	—	1,370
109	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	—	discovered	—	—	1,317
110	IMEDEA (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies)	Spain	Research institute	1985	Illumina	1,280
111	UMR 1283/8199	—	discovered	—	—	1,130
112	Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute	—	discovered	—	—	1,106
113	Leibniz-IGB (Berlin)	Germany	Research institute	1992	Illumina	1,091
114	Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment	—	discovered	—	—	1,071
115	QIB	—	discovered	—	—	1,032
116	UW-Eichler Lab	—	discovered	—	—	1,024
117	University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences	—	discovered	—	—	1,024
118	MATIS OHF.	—	discovered	—	—	1,001
119	BILS	—	discovered	—	—	988
120	Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich	—	discovered	—	—	974
121	University of Tuebingen	—	discovered	—	—	941
122	Fondation Merieux	—	discovered	—	—	871
123	academisch medisch centrum	—	discovered	—	—	733
124	Plant Research International	—	discovered	—	—	721
125	PRI	—	discovered	—	—	721
126	Novogene	China	Commercial	2011	Illumina	717
127	Institut de Ciencies del Mar ICM-CSIC	—	discovered	—	—	639
128	Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics (Oxford)	United Kingdom	Research institute	1994	Illumina	635
129	RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN	—	discovered	—	—	498
130	Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology	—	discovered	—	—	480
131	The Canine Genetics Centre	—	discovered	—	—	449
132	Addis Ababa University	—	discovered	—	—	426
133	SYNLAB Suisse SA	—	discovered	—	—	409
134	genphyse	—	discovered	—	—	403
135	GenPhySE	—	discovered	—	—	403
136	UniVie	—	discovered	—	—	347
137	IDAEA-CSIC	—	discovered	—	—	309
138	The Kennel Club Genetics Centre	—	discovered	—	—	300
139	Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences	—	discovered	—	—	299
140	RU	—	discovered	—	—	285
141	The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh / Virology Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian / School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh	—	discovered	—	—	280
142	University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust and DeepSeq Nottingham	—	discovered	—	—	261
143	arcadia science	—	discovered	—	—	225
144	UHCW / University of Warwick	—	discovered	—	—	163
145	Center for Mathematical Modeling - Universidad de Chile and IRL2807 CNRS	—	discovered	—	—	159
146	CMM - University of Chile	—	discovered	—	—	159
147	Lucent International Research Collaboration	—	discovered	—	—	132
148	PRESTO	—	discovered	—	—	132
149	shanghai jiaotong university	—	discovered	—	—	124
150	Fundacion Instituto de Investigacion Fundacion Jimenez Diaz	—	discovered	—	—	108

Biggest discovered (not-yet-profiled) submitters

Northumbria University / South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust / North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust / North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust / Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

148K analyses

Regional Virus Laboratory, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and: Genomics Core Technology Unit, Queens University Belfast.

73K analyses

West of Scotland Specialist Virology Centre, NHSGGC / MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

65K analyses

Oncologica UK Ltd

62K analyses

Virology Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian / School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

29K analyses

University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

23K analyses

Pan Lab at OU

22K analyses

Liverpool Clinical Laboratories

17K analyses

Oxford Viromics, NDM, University of Oxford Oxford University Hospitals Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital

14K analyses

Centre for Enzyme Innovation, University of Portsmouth / Translational Research Laboratory, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust / Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust / Bournemouth University / University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust / Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust / Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust / Isle of Wight NHS Trust / Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust / University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

12K analyses

Virology Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust/Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, The Medical School, University of Sheffield

12K analyses

Dr. Risch

9.9K analyses

These are raw, alias-unmerged center_name strings from the discovery facet — often pandemic-surveillance consortia that bundle many institutions under one label. They’re used only to measure coverage and find centers worth profiling, never in the leaderboard numbers.

Where the centers are — by country

United Kingdom · 17 centers

5.0M runs

United States · 8 centers

1.2M runs

Denmark · 4 centers

618K runs

Switzerland · 7 centers

332K runs

France · 2 centers

194K runs

China · 3 centers

163K runs

Germany · 6 centers

80K runs

Slovakia · 1 center

44K runs

Austria · 1 center

26K runs

Netherlands · 2 centers

23K runs

Norway · 1 center

18K runs

Singapore · 1 center

13K runs

Australia · 1 center

13K runs

Latvia · 1 center

9.7K runs

Greece · 1 center

9.2K runs

Estonia · 1 center

5.8K runs

Finland · 1 center

4.0K runs

South Korea · 1 center

3.4K runs

Sweden · 1 center

2.7K runs

Spain · 1 center

1.3K runs

Country is the curated location of each center, summed by submission volume — United Kingdom leads with 17 centers and 4,994,753 runs. This view covers the 61 profiled centers across 20 countries; the 89 discovered names carry no facility country in the archive (only sample origin is recorded), so they can’t be placed by country — which is why the per-country counts sum to the profiled set, not all 150. The European skew is real: ENA is Europe’s archive, so US giants that deposit mainly in NCBI SRA appear smaller here than their true output.

The whole archive, by platform

Illumina 90%Oxford Nanopore 2.5%PacBio 2.2%BGI / MGI 1.6%Ion Torrent 1.3%Other 2.2%

Which platforms each center runs

Wellcome Sanger Institute

COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)

Statens Serum Institut

University of California San Diego

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Baylor College of Medicine (Human Genome Sequencing Center)

UK Health Security Agency (Colindale)

Public Health Wales / Pathogen Genomics Unit

Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform (SPSP)

ETH Zurich

INRAE

BGI

CNRS (France)

Washington University (McDonnell Genome Institute)

Quadram Institute Bioscience

New York Genome Center

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Comenius University Science Park

University of Edinburgh

Each bar is one center’s platform mix, normalized to its own runs — so a small center and a giant are comparable. Hover a segment for its share. Most centers are Illumina-dominant; the public-health labs in this set show the highest Oxford Nanopore share.

How many centers — and who runs them

Of the 61 profiled centers, 41% are universities and just 4.9% are commercial firms — the rest are research institutes and public bodies. Firms are a smaller slice of the runs than of the centers: most keep their data private rather than deposit it in the open archive, which is exactly why a public-archive leaderboard under-counts them.

By number of centers

By archive runs

Academic (universities) 25 · 41%Research institutes & public 33 · 54%Commercial (firms) 3 · 4.9%

Centers by type

University

25 centers · 1.1M runs

Research institute

17 centers · 4.7M runs

Hospital / clinical

6 centers · 65K runs

Public health

4 centers · 848K runs

National genomics

4 centers · 161K runs

Commercial

3 centers · 120K runs

Consortium

2 centers · 741K runs

Data brokers, excluded

The single biggest center_name in the archive isn’t a sequencing center at all — it’s EMBL-EBI, the archive itself, with 17M submissions in ENA’s analysis index. These archive, mirror and aggregator names re-stamp data from the original submitters, so we exclude them from the leaderboard — otherwise they’d rank at the top without reflecting where the sequencing was done. Bars show analysis-index submissions (where brokering shows up most); the runs figure is their exact read_run count.

14 aggregator names carrying 915K read_run are excluded from the leaderboard.

EMBL-EBI

17M submissions · 52K runs

European Bioinformatics Institute

288K submissions · 584K runs

EBI

220K submissions · 57K runs

EMG

201K submissions · 160 runs

Ensembl Plants

113K submissions · 0 runs

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

78K submissions · 48K runs

EMBL Heidelberg

78K submissions · 1.1K runs

ENA

18K submissions · 0 runs

COMPARE

18K submissions · 0 runs

EMBL-EBI - United Kingdom

17K submissions · 5 runs

EBI-EMG

14K submissions · 160 runs

EMBL EBI

13K submissions · 52K runs

German Federation for Biological Data

4.1K submissions · 24K runs

EMBL

251 submissions · 97K runs

How this is tracked

Leaderboard numbersExact ENA Portal API read_run counts, OR-merged over each center’s alias center_name strings

DiscoveryEBI Search (sra-analysis) center_name facet — top 1000 raw names; used only to find centers and measure coverage, never for the numbers

Platform mixPer-center counts add AND instrument_platform="…"; adoption adds AND first_public year ranges for named tracked platforms

Coverage7.8M curated runs = 18% of 44M archive runs; the remainder is uncurated small/clinical submitters

Key caveatcenter_name is the self-reported submitter; this is archive submission activity (ENA-centric, surveillance-shaped), not total capacity

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