Ensembl 2005

The Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/) project provides a comprehensive and integrated source of annotation of large genome sequences. Over the last year the number of genomes available from the Ensembl site has increased by 7 to 16, with the addition of the six vertebrate genomes of chimpanzee, dog, cow, chicken, tetraodon and frog and the insect genome of honeybee. The majority have been annotated automatically using the Ensembl gene build system, showing its flexibility to reliably annotate a wide variety of genomes. With the increased number of vertebrate genomes, the comparative analysis provided to users has been greatly improved, with new website interfaces allowing annotation of different genomes to be directly compared. The Ensembl software system is being increasingly widely reused in different projects showing the benefits of a completely open approach to software development and distribution.

Damian Smedley | Ewan Birney | Javier Herrero | Graham Cameron | James G. R. Gilbert | Xosé M. Fernández-Suárez | Tim J. P. Hubbard | Thomas A. Down | Tony Cox | Richard Durbin | Simon White | Stephen Keenan | Vivek Iyer | William Spooner | Andreas Kähäri | James A. Smith | Michael Schuster | Mario Cáccamo | Arek Kasprzyk | Jessica Severin | Kevin L. Howe | Jim Stalker | Simon C. Potter | Mark Rae | Arne Stabenau | Laura Clarke | Felix Kokocinski | Jan Vogel | Stephen M. J. Searle | Kerstin Jekosch | Patrick Meidl | R. Storey | Stephen J. Trevanion | Abel Ureta-Vidal | Michele E. Clamp | Graham P. McVicker | Guy Coates | Val Curwen | Tim Cutts | Martin Hammond | H. Hotz | Damian Keefe | Craig Melsopp | Cara Woodwark | D. Andrews | Yuan Chen | Fiona Cunningham | D. London | Ian Longden | Glenn Proctor | Daniel Rios | Guy Slater | R. Durbin | E. Birney | F. Kokocinski | S. Searle | T. Hubbard | Cara Woodwark | D. Smedley | S. Potter | T. Down | M. Clamp | Damian Keefe | J. Gilbert | Yuan Chen | G. Slater | A. Kasprzyk | D. London | W. Spooner | Craig Melsopp | M. Hammond | Tony Cox | M. Cáccamo | L. Clarke | Guy Coates | T. Cutts | K. Howe | Andreas Kähäri | I. Longden | Patrick Meidl | Daniel Rios | Michael Schuster | S. Trevanion | J. Vogel | S. White | V. Curwen | X. M. Fernández-Suárez | Javier Herrero | G. Proctor | James A. Smith | A. Ureta-Vidal | S. Keenan | Arne Stabenau | R. Storey | Graham P. McVicker | J. Severin | J. Stalker | H. Hotz | V. Iyer | G. Cameron | K. Jekosch | Mark Rae | D. Andrews | P. Meidl | Fiona Cunningham | Ian Longden | G. McVicker | Laura Clarke | Simon C. Potter | Jessica Severin

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