Ensembl and EnsemblGenomes

Browsing Genes and Genomes with Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes will be presented by Helen Sparrow, Ensembl Outreach Officer. She will give an introduction to Ensembl browsers, key views in browsing genomes, and demo tools for accessing genomic data and analysing your own, BioMart and the VEP.

Ensembl (www.ensembl.org) provides an interface and an infrastructure for accessing genomic information covering over 70 vertebrate species, including cow, pig, sheep, and chicken. Its sister project, Ensembl Genomes (http://www.ensemblgenomes.org), consists of five sub-portals (bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and invertebrate metazoa) which contain data for over 700 eukaryotic (including wheat, barley, tomato and brassicas) and over 40,000 prokaryotic genomes.

All species in Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes have gene annotation and comparative genomics analyses within the taxa (excluding bacteria). For many of these genomes, we also provide annotation of variants, such as SNPs and CNVs. Access to these data are via our browser websites, BioMart (for protists, fungi, plants, and animals), FTP, Perl APIs, REST API, and MySQL. The Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) is a powerful tool for analysing your own variants, available for all species in Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes and for species not in Ensembl.

Highlights of the past year include;

A new chicken assembly and genebuild, dbSNP updates for chicken, horse and cow, and DGVa updates for horse, cow and dog.

New assemblies for bread wheat and barley, variation data for rice, and track hubs for over 900 public RNA-Seq studies, across 35 plant species.

Back to: Genome annotation resources at the EBI

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