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- Learn how to use Ensembl
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- Add custom tracks
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- Upload and analyse your data
- and save it to your Ensembl account
- Search for a DNA or protein sequence
- using BLAST or BLAT
- Fetch only the data you want
- from our public database, using the Perl API
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- and export sequences or tables in text, html, or Excel format
Browse a Genome
The Ensembl project produces genome databases for vertebrates and other eukaryotic species, and makes this information freely available online.
Click on a link below to go to the species' home page.
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What's New in Release 63 (30 June 2011)
- Sortable tracks on Region in Detail
- Variant Effect Predictor 2.1
- Regulation configuration matrix redesign
More release news on our blog →
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- New features in the Variant Effect Predictor
Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes.
Ensembl receives major funding from the Wellcome Trust. Our acknowledgements page includes a list of additional current and previous funding bodies.