Ensembl Human

Homo sapiens ENCODE resources at Ensembl

The ENCODE project aims to discover the bulk of functional elements in the human genome by intensively annotating 1% of the genome.

The ENCODE project has 44 separate regions across the genome. These were either chosen by a stratified random selection or because they are biologically inspired regions and chosen mainly for their existing density of experimental results (e.g. parts of chromosome 22 and the CFTR region on chromosome 7).

This page coordinates the resources available via the Ensembl browser for the ENCODE project. Through the links below, you can

• browse the ENCODE regions in ContigView
• simultaneously view other species data in MultiContigView
• use the EnsMart data mining tool to dump gene and gene-associated features in the ENCODE region

As part of the Ensembl team's involvement in the ENCODE project we are generating repeat libraries for the genomes newly sequenced by NISC. The libraries and further information can be found on the EBI anonymous ftp site:

ftp ftp.ebi.ac.uk
ftp> cd pub/databases/ensembl/encode/repeat_libraries

The ENCODE project primary data management is at UCSC and we are coordinating with them to deliver genome resources for ENCODE.

• More information on ENCODE regions from UCSC.

ENCODE regions

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