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What can I do with Ensembl Genomes?
The genome is a natural entry point for many types of bioinformatics data, providing both a reference framework and a scientific context within which the results of transcriptomic or proteomic data can be interpreted.
Ensembl Genomes allows you to:
- Retrieve all or part of a genome sequence
- Examine features (e.g. protein coding genes, non-protein coding genes and SNPs) in a chromosomal region
- View all transcripts of a gene
- View positions and sequences of mRNAs and proteins that align with a gene
- Use the sequence alignment search tool BLAST/BLAT against any genome
- Explore variants in a variety of genomes
- Predict the effect of variants on genes and their products, using the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) tool
- Explore orthologues and phylogenetic trees within and between taxa
- View sequence alignments and conserved regions between species
- Export information about genes, variants and a lot more as a spreadsheet or get sequence files, using the BioMart tool
- Upload additional data, including high-throughput sequencing reads, to view in the context of public annotation
The taxonomic spread of Ensembl Genomes allows to you view comparative genomic information at many levels, focussing either on a narrow taxonomic range or on a pan-taxonomic scale (from microbe to man). The provision of data for pathogenic species, their vectors and their hosts through a common interface provides a unique resource for the study of pathogen-mediated diseases of medical and agricultural importance.