On-line Genome Browser

Skiron writes "I stumbled on this quite excellent project after reading an article on the BBC news site (who, for some reason never include a link and leave the reader to go ogle for it. 'The Ensembl Genome Browser - Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - EBI and the Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on metazoan genomes. Ensembl is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.' A sort of DNA Wiki!"

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Re:Usability insightful

[Lars Arvestad]

Of course, this brings to mind, is this data available in some open format we can all d/l and run scripts on to try and find a buffer overflow in the human genome (that sounded worryingly plausible since many tools are being used now to find such cases in binay and source code).

Yes. If you look again you'll notice that their download section if easy to reach from several different views. I think most data format are somewhat self-explanatory too, at least if you have a tiny bit of an idea of what you are working with.

Ensembl.org also has a tool called ensmart, which is kind of GUI on a structured database. It is not at all as general as the underlying DBMS of course, but you can pretty easily filter out what you want and download it. For this tool, you probably need to actually know what kind of data you know, in contrast to the simple "download and run scripts" mode of work.

Ensembl.org is an excellent site!

For an open source site

[PrvtBurrito]

For an open source site, Y=you really should have references UCSC's annotated genome browser and tools and the genome browser. Incredible array of annotations, and completely in the public domain.