Ensembl Genomes is a portal that provides integrated access to genome-scale data for non-vertebrate species. It was developed using the Ensembl genome annotation and visualization platform. It consists of sub-portals for bacteria, protists, fungi, plants and invertebrate metazoa that complement the vertebrate genomes available in Ensembl. It provides graphical views of genomes and genes using the Ensembl genome browser software. Data is retrieved through interfaces like BioMart and APIs that access relational databases describing genomic features, sequences and identifiers. Tools like the Assembly Converter and Variant Effect Predictor are also available.

1. Ensembl Genomes extending Ensembl across the taxonomic space Amer Talal Wazwaz [email_address] [email_address] 21/3/2011

5. Statement of Need In response to the need of creating annotated genome databases To represent the best annotation for every genome THRO UGH Working with all sections of the relevant scientific community The browser offers a number of views of locations in the genome, genes, and specific transcripts location view for a region of a chromosome gene view transcript view

7. Data Nature of the DB ENA / GenBank / DDBJ Gramene TAIR NASC IGGP ENA / GenBank / DDBJ Saccharomyces Genome Database GeneDB Central Aspergillus Data Repository ENA / GenBank / DDBJ FlyBase WormBase VectorBase Drosophila Population Genome Project ENA / GenBank / DDBJ Regulon DB ENA / GenBank / DDBJ PlasmoDB EBI staff active participants in their primary annotation Collaborators to build Ensembl databases Importing canonical data from an authority for a given species Records previously submitted to the ENA / GenBank / DDBJ public nucleotide archives Supplemented by protein functional annotation from UniProtKB