About the Ensembl Project

Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes. Ensembl is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Goals of Ensembl

The Ensembl project aims to provide:

Ensembl will concentrate on vertebrate genomes, but other groups have adapted the system for use with plant and fungal genomes. Please see Powered by Ensembl for a list of projects that use Ensembl technology.

Commitments of Ensembl

The commitments of the Ensembl project are:

Citing Ensembl

As Ensembl is continuously producing new website and data releases, please mention the version and release date when citing Ensembl (currently release [[SPECIESDEFS::ENSEMBL_VERSION]] - [[SPECIESDEFS::ENSEMBL_RELEASE_DATE]]).

For a general reference to the Ensembl system, please cite the most recent overview article, currently:

A comprehensive list of overview and more specialised articles would be available from the Ensembl scientific publications page.

Archive! Sites

From November 2004, Ensembl has kept a series of archive sites for every Ensembl version from 26 onwards. For more information see http://archive.ensembl.org/.