Genomes Pages - At the EBI

Access to Completed Genomes

The first completed genomes from viruses, phages and organelles were deposited into the EMBL Database in the early 1980's. Since then, molecular biology's shift to obtain the complete sequences of as many genomes as possible combined with major developments in sequencing technology resulted in hundreds of complete genome sequences being added to the database, including Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryota. These web pages give access to a large number of complete genomes, help is available to describe the layout.

Whole Genome Shotgun Sequences (WGS)

Methods using whole genome shotgun data are used to gain a large amount of genome coverage for an organism. WGS data for a growing number of organisms are being submitted to DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank and are made available via EBI's Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) at http://srs.ebi.ac.uk and the EBI FTP server at ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/wgs/.
More information about WGS projects...

Human Draft Genome

The completion of the human draft genome sequence was announced and published in February 2001 in Nature and Science. Since the beginning of the Human Genome Project, the international Human Genome Sequencing Consortium has been submitting human draft sequence data to the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank. High-throughput human sequences have been made available to the public immediately via the EMBL Database high-throughput genome division (HTG), while finished sequences have been included in the Human division (HUM).

Genome Annotation and Proteome Analysis

Genome Reviews are a set of reannotated proteomes, based on manually curated data from UniProt.

The Ensembl Genome Browser provides the best possible automatic annotation, graphical views and web-searchable datasets for a number of eukaryotic genomes including human, mouse, drosophila, anopheles, zebrafish with others to follow.

Integr8 has proteome analysis information on a large number of organisms.

Last 40 Genome Entries

NB The genomes pages are normally updated ahead of SRS; if links fail to work for recent genomes, please try in 1-2 days.

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