The Ensembl Project Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL-EBI and the Sanger Centre to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on eukaryotic genomes. Human data are available now; worm and mouse will be added soon (more...).
News 20th July 2000
The Wellcome Trust today announced a major investment of at least £8 million over five years in the Ensembl project, the database providing automatic annotation of the human genome. The increased resources in staff and computer power for the gene "software" will mean a much speedier collection and dissemination of information on the function of genes, greatly aiding the work of researchers around the world in finding new diagnostic methods and treatments for a huge variety of diseases.See the full press release over at the Sanger Centre.
News 5th July 2000
Human genome resources spanning the entire working draft are now available.http://www.ensembl.org/Analysis/Human/ is a stable URL that provides links to a range of resources for the human genome. Ensembl is providing automatic annotation on a May 24th "frozen" data set at http://f24.ensembl.org.We are actively developing a range of other resources that will be incorporated into the main Ensembl website.