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Ensembl

Define the term Ensembl in Genome databases?

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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.

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