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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 20
- New genomes
- The current release of Ensembl Bacteria has been loaded from EMBL-Bank release 116 into 37 multispecies Ensembl v20 databases. The current dataset contains 9,089 genomes (8,842 eubacteria and 247 archaea) containing 31,780,949 protein coding genes loaded from 892,253 INSDC entries.This release includes 2,802 new genomes, 46 genomes with updated assemblies, 722 genomes with updated annotation, 87 genomes where the assigned name has changed, and 18 genomes removed since the last release.
- All genomes now loaded into Ensembl as representations of the original assembly structure as shown in INSDC entries
- Updated data
- EC numbers added from UniProtKB
- Rhea and MetaCyc cross-references added using data from Microme
- Operons and regulatory features added for Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 added using data from RegulonDB
Future Releases
Release 21 of Ensembl Bacteria is scheduled for 12th December 2013. Full details are available here.
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.
