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Help & Documentation

Using this website

Our website offers lots of ways to view and interact with our genomic data - find out more!

Adding custom tracks
Glossary
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

Data access

db server All of our data is open-access and can be downloaded free of charge (disclaimer). Ways to access this data include:

Export features or sequence directly from web pages
FTP download of complete datasets

API & Software

Ensembl releases all its software under an Apache-style open source licence. Our products include:

Perl API for direct data access
REST server for language-agnostic access
Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) and other command-line scripts
eHive distributed processing system
Web frontend (Apache with mod_perl) for mirroring this website

Personal Data