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e.g. type esc to find Escherichia
Access to 9000 Bacterial Genomes
- Search for a gene - type the name of a gene or other identifier into the search box above
- Find a genome - click in the 'browse a genome' box above and start typing your genome name to find matching genomes
- View full list of all Ensembl Bacteria species
- Access Ensembl Bacteria programmatically
What's New in Release 21
- New and updated genomes
- Release 21 of Ensembl Bacteria has been loaded from EMBL-Bank release 117 into 42 multispecies Ensembl v74 databases. The current dataset contains 9,764 genomes (9,515 bacteria and 249 archaea) containing 33,847,755 protein coding genes loaded from 981,558 INSDC entries. This release includes 678 new genomes, 15 genomes with updated assemblies, 814 genomes with updated annotation, 362 genomes where the assigned name has changed, and 4 genomes removed since the last release.
- Updated data
- Updated gene families
Ensembl Bacteria
Over 9000 genome sequences from bacteria and archaea have been annotated and deposited in the public archives of the members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. This site provides access to complete, annotated genomes from bacteria and archaea (present in the European Nucleotide Archive) through the Ensembl graphical user interface (genome browser). More details about the integration are provided here
Programmatic access is available through the Ensembl Perl and REST-ful APIs and through publicly accessible mysql databases, along with full data dumps (including DNA sequence and protein sequence in FASTA format, annotations in GTF format, and mysql dump files). Due to the large number of these databases, there is some modification to the APIs, and database and FTP site structure, compared to that used for other branches of the taxonomy (e.g. the storage of many genomes in one database; the provision of lookup services to identify genomes by INSDC identifiers, taxonomy identifiers, or partial names. Full details are available here.
BioMart access is not available, but we are working on providing new, more powerful data mining tools to allow users to exploit these genomes. A selection of over 100 key bacterial genomes has been included in the pan-taxonomic Compara, and genes from all genomes are classified into families using HAMAP and PANTHER (more details)
Ensembl Bacteria has been developed with the support of the Microme project, a resource for bacterial metabolism.
Ensembl Genomes is developed by EMBL-EBI and is powered by theEnsembl software system for the analysis and visualisation of genomic data. For details of our funding please click here.
