Abstract
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.
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