Ensembl Tools

We provide a number of ready-made tools for processing both our data and yours. We routinely delete results from our servers after 10 days, but if you have an ensembl account you will be able to save the results indefinitely.

Processing your data

Name	Description	Online tool	Upload limit	Download script	Documentation
Variant Effect Predictor	Analyse your own variants and predict the functional consequences of known and unknown variants via our Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) tool.		50MB*
Variant Recoder	Translate a variant identifier, HGVS notation or genomic SPDI notation to all possible variant IDs, HGVS, VCF format and genomic SPDI.		Maximun 1000 variants recommended
BLAST/BLAT	Search our genomes for your DNA or protein sequence.		50MB

* For larger datasets we provide an API script that can be downloaded (you will also need to install our Perl API, below, to run the script).

Accessing Ensembl data

Name	Description	Get it from:	Documentation
Ensembl Perl API	Programmatic access to all Ensembl data using simple Perl scripts	GitHub or FTP download (current release only)
Ensembl Virtual Machine	VirtualBox virtual Machine with Ubuntu desktop and pre-configured with the latest Ensembl API plus Variant Effect Predictor (VEP). NB: download is >1 GB	FTP download