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ReviewGenome research2004

An overview of Ensembl.

Ewan Birney, T Daniel Andrews, Paul Bevan, Mario Caccamo, Yuan Chen, Laura Clarke, Guy Coates, James Cuff, Val Curwen, Tim Cutts and 38 more

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Review in Genome research, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 215 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
215citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

215 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  17. Methods in DNA methylation array dataset analysis: A review.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024
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155 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

48 authors.

Ewan BirneyEMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK. birney@ebi.ac.uk
T Daniel Andrews
Paul Bevan
Mario Caccamo
Yuan Chen
Laura Clarke
Guy Coates
James Cuff
Val Curwen
Tim Cutts
Thomas Down
Eduardo Eyras
Xose M Fernandez-Suarez
Paul Gane
Brian Gibbins
James Gilbert
Martin Hammond
Hans-Rudolf Hotz
Vivek Iyer
Kerstin Jekosch
Andreas Kahari
Arek Kasprzyk
Damian Keefe
Stephen Keenan
Heikki Lehvaslaiho
Graham McVicker
Craig Melsopp
Patrick Meidl
Emmanuel Mongin
Roger Pettett
Simon Potter
Glenn Proctor
Mark Rae
Steve Searle
Guy Slater
Damian Smedley
James Smith
Will Spooner
Arne Stabenau
James Stalker
Roy Storey
Abel Ureta-Vidal
K Cara Woodwark
Graham Cameron
Richard Durbin
Anthony Cox
Tim Hubbard
Michele Clamp

Funding

Wellcome Trust 062023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org/) is a bioinformatics project to organize biological information around the sequences of large genomes. It is a comprehensive source of stable automatic annotation of individual genomes, and of the synteny and orthology relationships between them. It is also a framework for integration of any biological data that can be mapped onto features derived from the genomic sequence. Ensembl is available as an interactive Web site, a set of flat files, and as a complete, portable open source software system for handling genomes. All data are provided without restriction, and code is freely available. Ensembl's aims are to continue to "widen" this biological integration to include other model organisms relevant to understanding human biology as they become available; to "deepen" this integration to provide an ever more seamless linkage between equivalent components in different species; and to provide further classification of functional elements in the genome that have been previously elusive.

Indexed as

Computational Biology

Identifiers

PMID15078858
PMCPMC479121

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.