The Ensembl Web Site: Mechanics of a Genome Browser | Zendy

James Stalker | Zendy; Brian Gibbins | Zendy; Patrick Meidl | Zendy; James Smith | Zendy; William Spooner | Zendy; Hans-Rudolf Hotz | Zendy; Antony V. Cox | Zendy

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The Ensembl Web Site: Mechanics of a Genome Browser

Author(s) -

James Stalker,

Brian Gibbins,

Patrick Meidl,

James Smith,

William Spooner,

Hans-Rudolf Hotz,

Antony V. Cox

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

genome research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.556

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1549-5469

pISSN - 1088-9051

DOI - 10.1101/gr.1863004

Subject(s) - ensembl , perl , modular design , world wide web , interface (matter) , web site , data curation , computer science , user interface , java , database , biology , the internet , genomics , genome , operating system , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , gene , biochemistry

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 (approximately 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.

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