- Course overview
- Search within this course
- Why Ensembl?
- What is Ensembl?
- When to use Ensembl
- How to access 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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Searching Ensembl: An example using a gene name
Let’s search for a gene. In our example, we want to know more information about the BRCA2 gene, such as the genomic location, neighbouring genes and the sequence.
You can use the search box on the home page, as shown in Figure 5. Or, click on a species first, and search from, for example, the Human home page.
Try it!
- Open the Ensembl homepage at www.ensembl.org
- Choose your species of interest (Human) using the pull-down menu to the left of the search box.
- Type in your search term of interest into the search box. In our example we are using the gene name ‘BRCA2‘.
- Click ‘Go’ to obtain the search results
- You should see the BRCA2 gene at the top of the list.