- Course overview
- Search within this course
- Why Ensembl?
- When to use Ensembl
- How to access Ensembl
- How to search Ensembl
- How to search Ensembl
- How to search Ensembl
- Exploring sources of biological data
- Navigating Ensembl
- Customise Ensembl
- Manage your data
- Export data
- Download data with BioMart
- Bulk download genome-wide data files with FTP
- Ensembl tools
- Summary
- Guided examples of using Ensembl
- Exercises
- Your feedback
- Get help and support on Ensembl
- Acknowledgements
- Learn more
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What is Ensembl?
Ensembl provides a genome browser that acts as a single point of access to annotated genomes for vertebrate and non vertebrate species (Video 1 and Figure 2).
Information about genes, transcripts and further annotation can be retrieved at the genome, gene and protein level. This includes information on protein domains, genetic variation, homology, syntenic regions and regulatory elements.
 Ensembl imports genome sequences from consortia which keeps us consistent with many other bioinformatics projects. Each species in Ensembl has its own home page, where you can find out who provided the genome sequence and which version of the genome assembly is represented. For an example, see the human home page. |
