Extending Ensembl

Following a recent thread in our ensembl-dev mailing list, we can point our users to a recent post in the Gramene blog (a resources for grass genomes maintained at CSHL). This framework extends Ensembl with a data resource to browse several plant species: maize (Zea mays), rice (Oryza glaberrima and Oryza rufipogon), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana, grape (Vitis vinifera), and poplar (Populus trichocarpa); with comparative maps for additional species such as wheat (Triticum aestivum), barley (Hordeum vulgare) and oat (Avena sativa).

You can find some sample scripts to load an Ensembl species database from scratch, here.

Thanks to our colleagues at Gramene.