What is the Ensembl database?
What is it?
Ensembl is a comprehensive database of the genomes of metazoans species ranging from primitive chordates to mammals, whose genomes have been sequenced to completion.
What is it for?
Ensembl is a powerful environment for genomic data mining such as:
- Comparative genomics
- Gene mapping
- Gene identification and characterization
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What's in it?
- Comprehensive genome sequences
- Accurate gene sets (or at least, as humanly possible), both predicted and observed
- Extensive characterization of genes and their products at the genomic level
- Data on regulatory regions
- Genetic variation data, e.g., r2 and d' for all pairs of SNPs at a distance of under 100 kb that have been genotyped in the Perlegen and HapMap populations
Key references
- Hubbard TJ et al., (2009) Ensembl 2009. Nucleic Acids Research, Jan 1;37(Database issue):D690-7.
- All PubMed references pertaining to Ensembl and published by the Ensembl group.
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OVERVIEW VIDEO: Ensembl video of presentation made at Stanford's Bioinformatics Week 2006; requires Quicktime 7 player. Note: you may have to paste the URL directly into the Quicktime player; courtesy of Stanford CMGM.
Source
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Record created 4/25/2006.
ypouliot, September 14, 2009