Upcoming Ensembl Platform Transition

This is the final release of its kind on this website.

In summer 2026, this site will bring you to the new Ensembl platform currently at beta.ensembl.org.
Please bookmark this archive to retain access to the current site, tools and functionality until they are available on the new platform -> eg63-protists.ensembl.org

Ensembl Memcached integration

Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system.
We are using memcached to speed up the website by caching data in EnsEMBL, such as semi-static rendered html pages, generated images, image-maps, some database query results and a lot more.
To learn more about memcached in general, visit: http://memcached.org/

Tutorials