- Course overview
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- What is genetic variation?
- Exploring publicly available data
- European Variation Archive
- Browsing genomes with Ensembl
- Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor
- Investigating variation with UniProt
- European Genome-Phenome Archive
- Investigating genotype-phenotype data using the GWAS Catalog
- Exploring somatic mutations in cancer
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Browsing genomes with Ensembl
The vast amount of information that comes with annotating a genomic sequence demands a way of organising and accessing that information. This need is met by Ensembl – a genome browser providing free access to the complete sequences of higher and model organisms.
Information about genes, transcripts and further annotation can be retrieved at the genome, gene and protein level. This includes information on protein domains, genetic variation, homology, syntenic regions and regulatory elements.
Earlier in this collection, you were introduced to some examples of using Ensembl. This online tutorial provides a guide to the information gathered by Ensembl and how to access it using the Ensembl genome browser.
This online tutorial will take around 2-3 hours to complete.
Go to Ensembl: Browsing genomes
In the next section, we will learn about the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor.