RT Journal A1 Birney, Ewan A1 Andrews, T. Daniel A1 Bevan, Paul A1 Caccamo, Mario A1 Chen, Yuan A1 Clarke, Laura A1 Coates, Guy A1 Cuff, James A1 Curwen, Val A1 Cutts, Tim A1 Down, Thomas A1 Eyras, Eduardo A1 Fernandez-Suarez, Xose M. A1 Gane, Paul A1 Gibbins, Brian A1 Gilbert, James A1 Hammond, Martin A1 Hotz, Hans-Rudolf A1 Iyer, Vivek A1 Jekosch, Kerstin A1 Kahari, Andreas A1 Kasprzyk, Arek A1 Keefe, Damian A1 Keenan, Stephen A1 Lehvaslaiho, Heikki A1 McVicker, Graham A1 Melsopp, Craig A1 Meidl, Patrick A1 Mongin, Emmanuel A1 Pettett, Roger A1 Potter, Simon A1 Proctor, Glenn A1 Rae, Mark A1 Searle, Steve A1 Slater, Guy A1 Smedley, Damian A1 Smith, James A1 Spooner, Will A1 Stabenau, Arne A1 Stalker, James A1 Storey, Roy A1 Ureta-Vidal, Abel A1 Woodwark, K. Cara A1 Cameron, Graham A1 Durbin, Richard A1 Cox, Anthony A1 Hubbard, Tim A1 Clamp, Michele T1 An Overview of Ensembl JF Genome Research JO Genome Research YR 2004 FD May 01 VO 14 IS 5 SP 925 OP 928 DO 10.1101/gr.1860604 UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/14/5/925.abstract AB Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/) is a bioinformatics project to organize biological information around the sequences of large genomes. It is a comprehensive source of stable automatic annotation of individual genomes, and of the synteny and orthology relationships between them. It is also a framework for integration of any biological data that can be mapped onto features derived from the genomic sequence. Ensembl is available as an interactive Web site, a set of flat files, and as a complete, portable open source software system for handling genomes. All data are provided without restriction, and code is freely available. Ensembl's aims are to continue to “widen” this biological integration to include other model organisms relevant to understanding human biology as they become available; to “deepen” this integration to provide an ever more seamless linkage between equivalent components in different species; and to provide further classification of functional elements in the genome that have been previously elusive.