Ensembl Tutorials and Worked Examples
Our Outreach team have put together extensive teaching materials that are available free online. You can also host an Ensembl course at your institution.
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Learning Ensembl Basics
Short videos
- The Ensembl Genome Browser: an overview
- Introduction to genome browsers using Ensembl
- Clip: Exons and Introns
- View Your Data in Ensembl
- Using BLAST/BLAT in Ensembl
Many more videos are available on our Youtube and 优酷网 channels.
See also our protocols articles on browsing with Ensembl.
Online courses
- Introduction to Browsing Chordate Genomes - a 3-hour comprehensive interactive tutorial aimed at beginners
- Filmed browser workshop - 8 hours of video lectures from an Ensembl browser workshop, with exercises to carry out in your own time
Delving deeper: Genomes, Genes and Regulation
Short videos
- Looking at the LCT Gene in 'Region in detail'
- Clip: Export Sequence
- Comparing genes and species in Ensembl
Many more videos are available on our Youtube and 优酷网 channels.
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Delving deeper: Variation and VEP
Short videos
- Clip: Genome Variation
- Browsing SNPs and CNVs in Ensembl
- Analyse your Sequence Variants with the VEP (Web Interface)
Many more videos are available on our Youtube and 优酷网 channels.
Get annotation with BioMart
Short videos
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Written materials
Using the Perl and REST APIs
Short videos
Online courses
- Accessing data with the Core API
- Accessing comparative data with the Compara API
- Accessing variation data with the Variation API
- Accessing regulatory data with the Regulation API
- Using the REST API
- Filmed API workshop - 3 hours of video lectures from an Ensembl API workshop, with exercises to carry out in your own time