Finding information about species and genomes in Ensembl Plants, Demo

The front page of Ensembl Plants is found at plants.ensembl.org. It contains lots of information and links to help you navigate Ensembl Plants:

At the top left you can see the current release number and what has come out in this release.

Click on View full list of all species.

Click on the common name of your species of interest to go to the species homepage. We’ll click on Arabidopsis thaliana.

Here you can see links to example pages and to download flatfiles. To find out more about the genome assembly and genebuild, click on More information and statistics.

Here you’ll find a detailed description of how to the genome was produced and links to the original source. You will also see details of how the genes were annotated.