- Course overview
- Search within this course
- Why Ensembl?
- What is Ensembl?
- When to use Ensembl
- How to access Ensembl
- Exploring sources of biological data
- Navigating Ensembl
- Customise Ensembl
- Manage your data
- Export data
- Download data with BioMart
- Bulk download genome-wide data files with FTP
- Ensembl tools
- Summary
- Guided examples of using Ensembl
- Exercises
- Your feedback
- Get help and support on Ensembl
- Acknowledgements
- Learn more
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How to search Ensembl
Search www.ensembl.org (Video 2) using:
- a gene name (for example, BRCA2) (Figure 4)
- an identifier from an external database, such as UniProt accession number or a PDBe ID
- a disease name (for example, coronary heart disease)
- a variant ID (for example, rs1223)
- a location – a genomic region (for example, rat X:100000..200000)
- a Gene Ontology (GO) term
Most search results will take you to the appropriate Ensembl view through a results page. If you search using a location you will be directed straight to the location tab (this tab provides a view of a region of a genome).
The different tabs in Ensembl will be explained in the later section ‘Navigating Ensembl‘. For now we will concentrate on how to search Ensembl.
 Want to find genes or genomic regions for a sequence? See the section ‘Searching with a sequence using BLAT or BLAST‘. |