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Category Archives: Features
New gene gain/loss tree view in Ensembl
If you are interested in knowing the evolutionary history of your preferred Ensembl gene, you are in luck. Starting from this release (69) Ensembl has a new gene gain/loss tree view just for this purpose. This view shows the evolutionary … Continue reading
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New feature: Image Resize on Ensembl Beta
Did you ever wish you could resize our images/views to make them bigger? We now have a new icon on the blue image toolbar in beta.ensembl.org, and you can resize the image on one click. On clicking the icon, a … Continue reading
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Share pages and images with your colleagues
Have you ever spent time changing your favourite Ensembl view (for example adding new tracks, changing the track order, or uploading custom data) and wished you could easily send the configured display to a colleague through one simple url? You … Continue reading
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ENCODE integrative analysis data available in Ensembl
We are pleased to announce that we are now providing access to the ENCODE integrative analysis data from within Ensembl. These analyses bring together a multitude of experiments targeted at determining functional elements in the human genome sequence. This data … Continue reading
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Scrollable Genome Browsing
I am pleased to announce the release of a scrollable region view for Ensembl on beta.ensembl.org, available on species location pages (for example, here on Human chromosome 13) by clicking on the Scrollable region link in the navigation menu. This view is powered by Genoverse, an … Continue reading
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Save your tracks as a configuration
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
Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Ensembl
Ensembl provides annotations indicating regions in the genome that are experimentally verified to be bound by transcription factors (from ChIP-Seq experiments). Within these regions, we now also provide precise transcription factor binding sites. To generate these binding sites, we make use … Continue reading
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Web display speed ups and flat file usage
We’re always looking at ways we can improve the Ensembl browser experience. Quite often this results in a focus on the speed at which a particular display or track can be provided. Over the past year or so we have … Continue reading
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Beta site for browser testing
We’d like to announce our beta site at beta.ensembl.org. This site will allow us to show you the latest features of our website, and to get user feedback before new functionality and design are moved over to our live site. … Continue reading
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Navigation Tip- Viewing Synteny
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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