The web VEP tool gives you a lot of useful information about your variants, but you may want more details, for example about the genes your variants overlap: maybe you want to fetch their sequences, homologues or protein domains. With a single click, you can go straight to BioMart, using your list of genes or known variants as your filter.
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Update: Disruption to Ensembl services – tools are now restored
Due to problems at our Data Centre starting on Thursday 8th October, we experienced a period of reduced functionality affecting Ensembl tools, user accounts and archives.
Changes in BioMart species support
As Ensembl continues to rapidly grow in terms of the number of supported species, we continually assess our provided resources effectively match the scientific needs of the researchers using them.
In order to maintain our BioMart service at its current performance level, we will be making changes to data availability in BioMart starting with the upcoming e99 release.