RT Journal
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
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2004 
FD May 01 
VO 14 
IS 5 
SP 951 
OP 955 
DO 10.1101/gr.1863004 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/14/5/951.abstract 
AB 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.