Ensembl Genomes 2018: an integrated omics infrastructure for non-vertebrate species

Kersey, P. J., Allen, J. E., Allot, A., Barba, M., Boddu, S., Bolt, B. J., Carvalho-Silva, D., Christensen, M., Davis, P., Grabmueller, C., Kumar, N., Liu, Z., Maurel, T., Moore, B., McDowall, M. D., Maheswari, U., Naamati, G., Newman, V., Ong, C. K., Paulini, M., Pedro, H., Perry, E., Russell, M., Sparrow, H., Tapanari, E., Taylor, K., Vullo, A., Williams, G., Zadissia, A., Olson, A., Stein, J., Wei, S., Tello-Ruiz, M., Ware, D., Luciani, A., Potter, S., Finn, R. D., Urban, M., Hammond-Kosack, K. E., Bolser, D. M., De Silva, N., Howe, K. L., Langridge, N., Maslen, G., Staines, D. M., Yates, A. (January 2018) Ensembl Genomes 2018: an integrated omics infrastructure for non-vertebrate species. Nucleic Acids Res, 46 (D1). D802-D808. ISSN 0305-1048

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29092050
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx1011

Abstract

Ensembl Genomes (http://www.ensemblgenomes.org) is an integrating resource for genome-scale data from non-vertebrate species, complementing the resources for vertebrate genomics developed in the Ensembl project (http://www.ensembl.org). Together, the two resources provide a consistent set of programmatic and interactive interfaces to a rich range of data including genome sequence, gene models, transcript sequence, genetic variation, and comparative analysis. This paper provides an update to the previous publications about the resource, with a focus on recent developments and expansions. These include the incorporation of almost 20 000 additional genome sequences and over 35 000 tracks of RNA-Seq data, which have been aligned to genomic sequence and made available for visualization. Other advances since 2015 include the release of the database in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format, a large increase in community-derived curation, a new high-performance protein sequence search, additional cross-references, improved annotation of non-protein-coding genes, and the launch of pre-release and archival sites. Collectively, these changes are part of a continuing response to the increasing quantity of publicly-available genome-scale data, and the consequent need to archive, integrate, annotate and disseminate these using automated, scalable methods.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: bioinformatics
Investigative techniques and equipment > assays > RNA-seq
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Ware lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: 4 January 2018
Date Deposited: 15 Nov 2017 20:41
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2018 20:15
PMCID: PMC5753204
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/35656

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