TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stalker, James
A1  - Gibbins, Brian
A1  - Meidl, Patrick
A1  - Smith, James
A1  - Spooner, William
A1  - Hotz, Hans-Rudolf
A1  - Cox, Antony V.
T1  - The Ensembl Web Site: Mechanics of a Genome Browser
Y1  - 2004/05/01 
JF  - Genome Research 
JO  - Genome Research 
SP  - 951 
EP  - 955 
DO  - 10.1101/gr.1863004 
VL  - 14 
IS  - 5 
UR  - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/14/5/951.abstract 
N2  - The Ensembl Web site (http://www.ensembl.org/) is the principal user interface to the data of the Ensembl project, and currently serves >500,000 pages (∼2.5 million hits) per week, providing access to >80 GB (gigabyte) of data to users in more than 80 countries. Built atop an open-source platform comprising Apache/mod_perl and the MySQL relational database management system, it is modular, extensible, and freely available. It is being actively reused and extended in several different projects, and has been downloaded and installed in companies and academic institutions worldwide. Here, we describe some of the technical features of the site, with particular reference to its dynamic configuration that enables it to handle disparate data from multiple species. 
ER  -