Public data access

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Publicly accessible link to this article 

This document focuses solely on public data, which by definition has been released to the public and does not require authentication or authorisation to be accessed.

Performance and status of Transfer Services

• Performance and status of Transfer Services

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Standardised data hierarchy and network requirements

The following transfer methods all provide identical public data within the same folder hierarchy.

Endpoint	Protocol	Documentation	EBI IPs	EBI Network rules	External institution network requirements
EMBL-EBI Public Data - Guest Collection (GCS)	Globus and HTTP	Globus How-To Globus documentation	193.62.192.146 193.62.192.147 193.62.192.148	Ports 50000—​51000 inbound and outbound to/from ANY Port 443 inbound and outbound to/from ANY
ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk	FTP - File Transfer Protocol		193.62.193.165	21 inbound and outbound to/from ANY Passive ports from 40000 to 50000
http://ftp.ebi.ac.uk	HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol		193.62.193.165	80 inbound and outbound to/from ANY
https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk	HTTPS - HyperText Transfer Protocol		193.62.193.165	443 inbound and outbound to/from ANY
rsync://ftp.ebi.ac.uk	Rsync		193.62.193.165	873 inbound and outbound to/from ANY
fasp-public@fasp.ebi.ac.uk:/	IBM Aspera  FASP - Fast Adaptive Secure Protocol	Aspera Command Line Aspera Connect Aspera Firewall considerations FASP security: Aspera Connect transfer client authorised keys and aspshell	193.62.193.164	33001 (TCP) inbound and outbound to/from ANY 33001 (UDP) inbound and outbound to/from ANY	Permit TCP outbound to 193.62.193.164 on port 33001 Permit UDP outbound to 193.62.193.164 on port 33001 Permit UDP inbound from 193.62.193.164 on port 33001

How to request assistance or report an issue

• For any enquiries about the contents of projects and release dates, please go to => https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/contact/support
• To ensure your network is not the problem, you can use https://testmy.net/auto and provide the results for that site in the next step if needed. 
• To request assistance with the Transfer Services systems, please open a ticket with your name, IP, command used and all the logs you can provide using the ServiceNow form for external users => External ServiceNow form

Other related documents

• Link to Public Knowledge Base for Private Data Services
• https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events/open-access-finding-and-accessing-open-data
• https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/courses/finding-using-public-data/
• 5-minute video explaining the changes between Globus V4 and Globus V5

Examples

The following commands download the same file from different protocols

These examples are provided solely as illustrations of how the standard data hierarchy presentation appears when accessing data through each protocol. 

HTTP/s

# HTTP
$ curl http://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/1000g/ftp/CHANGELOG

FTP

# FTP
$ lftp http://ftp.ebi.ac.uk
$ lftp http://ftp.ebi.ac.uk:~> cd 1000g/ftp/
cd ok, cwd=/1000g/ftp
$ lftp http://ftp.ebi.ac.uk:/1000g/ftp> get CHANGELOG

Rsync

# Rsync
$ rsync rsync://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/1000g/ftp/CHANGELOG .

Aspera

• How to transfer files to and from EMBL-EBI using IBM Aspera
• IBM Aspera Encryption Requirements at EMBL-EBI (2025 Update)