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What is Ensembl genome browser?

What is Ensembl genome browser?

Ensembl provides a genome browser that acts as a single point of access to annotated genomes for mainly vertebrate species (Video 1 and Figure 2). Information about genes, transcripts and further annotation can be retrieved at the genome, gene and protein level.

What is Ensembl used for?

Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/) is a bioinformatics project to organize biological information around the sequences of large genomes. It is a comprehensive source of stable automatic annotation of individual genomes, and of the synteny and orthology relationships between them.

What is NCBI genome browser?

The NCBI Genome Data Viewer (GDV) is a genome browser supporting the exploration and analysis of annotated eukaryotic genome assemblies.

What does a genome browser do?

The Genome Browser supports text and sequence based searches that provide quick, precise access to any region of specific interest. Secondary links from individual entries within annotation tracks lead to sequence details and supplementary off-site databases.

What is Ensembl gene ID?

Stable identifiers are ways that databases, such as Ensembl, can label the features, such as genes, transcripts, exons or proteins, in their database. The identifiers aim to be unambiguous and consistent across Ensembl releases. When annotating a species for the first time, these identifiers are auto-generated.

Is Ensembl a database?

An integrative resource for genome-scale data from vertebrate species. The main objective of the Ensembl Genomes database is to complement the main Ensembl database by introducing five additional web pages to include genome data for bacteria, fungi, invertebrate metazoa, plants, and protists. …

What is NCBI genome database?

The Genome Sequence DataBase (GSDB), operated by the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), is a relational database of publicly available nucleotide sequences and associated biological and bibliographic annotation.

What is NCBI Slideshare?

NCBI along with EBI and CIB together form International Sequence Database Collaboration which act as the chief working unit and Information Centre. NCBI has 3 collaborative databases: GenBank European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Database DNA Database of Japan (DDBJ)

What is a Genome Browser track?

Genome Browser annotation tracks are based on files in line-oriented format. Each line in the file defines a display characteristic for the track or defines a data item within the track. Annotation files contain three types of lines: browser lines, track lines, and data lines.

What is a genome track?

A genomic track consists of a set of track elements and, for each element, describes a set of properties, such as an identifier, a quality score or the method used. The positional information of a track element is obligatory for any genomic track and can be interpreted generically across tracks.

What is Ensembl?

Ensembl is a genome browser for vertebrate genomes that supports research in comparative genomics, evolution, sequence variation and transcriptional regulation. Ensembl annotate genes, computes multiple

Where does Ensembl get its genome sequences?

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.

Where can I find information about each species in Ensembl?

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. Figure 2 Ensembl contains information on chordate genomes, including human, mouse, rat, zebrafish, panda, and takifugu.

Is the Ensembl Bacteria data model applicable to other domains?

As greater numbers of closely related species are sequenced, the data model already used for Ensembl Bacteria, in which related genomes are grouped in collections, may become increasingly applicable to other domains.

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