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The European Variation Archive (EVA) is EMBL-EBI's open-access archive for genetic variation data from all species. It accepts submitted VCF studies, archives and annotates the variants, and assigns submitted (SS) and clustered (RS) variant accessions. For non-human species it took over the legacy dbSNP variant data and is now the reference archive that issues RS IDs, released as periodic RefSNP releases (release 9, May 2026, covering 315 species).

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European Variation Archive team, EMBL-EBI

Github: EBIvariation

Email: eva-helpdesk@ebi.ac.uk

URL: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/

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The European Variation Archive: a FAIR resource of genomic variation for all species Preferred

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ID	Name	URL	Category	Format	Description
eva.portal	EVA Web Portal	eva	Graphical Interface	http	EVA web portal with the Study Browser...
eva.variant-browser	EVA Variant Browser	?Variant-Browser	Graphical Interface	http	Variant Browser for querying EVA vari...
eva.api	EVA REST API	swagger-ui.html	Programming Interface	http	EVA REST web services (v1) for studie...
eva.identifiers-api	EVA Identifiers API	swagger-ui.html	Programming Interface	http	EVA accessioning web services for loo...
eva.rs-releases	EVA RefSNP Releases	rs_releases	Product	mixed	EVA RefSNP (RS) releases, one directo...
eva.ftp	EVA FTP Project Files	eva	Product	vcf	EVA FTP site with one directory per E...
eva.help	EVA Help	?Help	Documentation	http	EVA help pages, including FAQs, acces...
eva.code	EVA GitHub Organization	EBIvariation	Process	mixed	EVA source code repositories on GitHu...

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European Variation Archive

The European Variation Archive (EVA) at EMBL-EBI is an open-access archive of genetic variation data for all species. Researchers submit variant studies in VCF format, and EVA archives, validates and annotates them and assigns permanent accessions:

SS (SubSnp) accessions for each submitted allele change in a study.
RS (RefSnp) accessions for clusters of SS IDs at the same locus.

EVA’s workflow is aligned with NCBI’s dbSNP, dbVar and ClinVar. Since dbSNP stopped accepting non-human variants, EVA imported the legacy dbSNP non-human data and is now the archive that issues RS IDs for non-human species.

Access

Web portal with a Study Browser and a Variant Browser.
REST API (v1) and an identifiers API for SS/RS accession lookups, both documented with Swagger UI.
FTP: submitted VCF files per project, and periodic RefSNP releases organized by species and assembly (release 9, May 2026, 315 species).

Notes

Data are open access under the EMBL-EBI Terms of Use. I found no separate data license statement on the EVA site.
EVA is indexed by OmicsDI.
The release FTP has no stable latest link. The eva.rs-releases product points to the release index and records release_9 as the latest version.

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