Ensembl

Question

Define the term Ensembl in Genome databases?

Answer 1

Ensembl is a software system that was first released in 2000 at EBI/Wellcome Sanger Trust Institute to automatically maintain and annotate vertebrate genomes.

The first instance of Ensembl was the human database.

Sequence data are fed into a pipeline of Perl software that

• Generates the annotation data
• Stores it in a MySQL database

The database is then used to create the web interface.