Category Archives: Help & Tips

Take our Browser Workshop … Online!

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Giulietta (Outreach)

We’d like to announce our new, filmed browser workshop. Take it for free on EBI’s Train Online platform! http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online/course/ensembl-video-workshop You can either go through the whole day course top to bottom, or pick your favourite module.  It’s complete with filmed … Continue reading →

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Learn Ensembl Online

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Emily (Outreach)

Are you new to Ensembl and want some help on using the browser? Have you used Ensembl before, and want to learn more about it? Do you want to get data quickly using BioMart? These Online Tutorials are helpful for … Continue reading →

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Learn by Video

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Giulietta (Outreach)

Hi, I am working in Ensembl Outreach, and I’d like to point you to some new videos we have on our YouTube channel.  These 5 videos were requested from clinical researchers at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. The Ensembl Overview … Continue reading →

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Save your tracks as a configuration

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Giulietta (Outreach)

New in this release (version 65 of Ensembl) is the ability to save your selected tracks as a configuration.  You can load in a set of tracks you chose with a simple click of the ‘Load configuration’ button.  A simple … Continue reading →

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Stable ID Changes in the Ensembl Core Schema

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Andy (Core)

Ensembl 65 brought a major change to our core data model; we decided to merge the stable id tables with their parent tables. The relationship between a stable id record and its parent record was 1:1 making these tables an … Continue reading →

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Orthologues (in summary)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Javier Herrero

We have recently added a new table at the top of the Orthologues view. This table shows the number of species that have a 1:1, 1:many or many:many orthology relationship with the current gene. This table shows that information for … Continue reading →

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API reference gets a refresh

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Kieron (Vertebrate Genomics)

With some satisfaction, I am happy to announce the arrival of a new documentation resource with Release 63, intended to assist programmers in getting the most out of EnsEMBL. Using a custom filter and the open source tool Doxygen we … Continue reading →

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Accessing alternate sequences in human

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Bronwen (Genebuild)

Have you noticed any strange-looking chromosome names when browsing the human data? For example, you might notice sequence region names looking like “Chromosome HSCHR17_2_CTG4: 68,302,419-68,526,413” or “Chromosome HG75_PATCH: 34,442,621-34,976,908”. The names refer to genomic sequence that differs from the genomic … Continue reading →

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Navigation Tip- Viewing Synteny

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Giulietta (Outreach)

Due to feedback on a recent survey, we decided to post some pointers to functionality that may not have been discovered by many of our users.  One specific case is viewing syntenic regions calculated by the Ensembl comparative genomics team … Continue reading →

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GeneTrees: how do I read them? And can I view alignments using Jalview?

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Albert (Compara)

If you have clicked on the GeneTree link in Ensembl (for example, the gene tree for IL2), you may have noticed that we have a new way of displaying large GeneTrees. This time, if you have a large gene family … Continue reading →

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