- Course overview
- Search within this course
- What is Ensembl Genomes?
- What species can I find in Ensembl Genomes?
- What can I do with Ensembl Genomes?
- Getting data from Ensembl Genomes
- Your feedback
- Get help and support on Ensembl Genomes
- References
- Collaborators and funding
All materials are free cultural works licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, except where further licensing details are provided.
What species can I find in Ensembl Genomes?
The current Ensembl Genomes portals (as of January 2024) are summarised below. They are: Ensembl Metazoa, Plants, Protists, Fungi and Bacteria. New genomes are added to the project with each release.
Ensembl Metazoa
Contains data from non-chordate metazoan species, including species annotated by WormBase, FlyBase and VectorBase: worms, flies and arthropod vectors of human pathogens.
Ensembl Plants
Originally developed jointly with Gramene (a resource for plant genomics based at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), it contains data for flowering plants, both monocots and dicots, mosses and algae. Ensembl Plants has a number of different rice species and strains as well as a comprehensive wheat genome.
Ensembl Protists
Includes the genomes of a number of Apicomplexa species (including the causative agents of malaria), Leishmania major, the slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum as well as other diatom and pathogenic species. Some species have phenotype and other functional annotation provided by Phytopath. Some genomes are imported directly from the INSDC.
Ensembl Fungi
Includes the genomes of model species such as Sacchromyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Neurospora crassa as well as a number of phytopathogens. Some species have phenotype and other functional annotation provided by Phytopath. Some genomes are imported directly from the INSDC.
Ensembl Bacteria
Ensembl Bacteria has over 30,000 bacterial and archaeal genomes, with many species and strains represented by multiple genomes. All of these, including their annotation, are imported directly from the INSDC.