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Ensembl Download and Documentation

Ensembl Downloads
Overview
Before downloading and installing the Ensembl data and software we strongly encourage you to first read the documentation.
 o Ensembl tutorial
 o Ensembl Website Install instructions

The software which provides Perl-based Object access to the database is available via anonymous CVS (see website install docs for details)
 o  WebCVS
FTP Downloads
All of the data generated by the Ensembl project is freely available to download from our FTP site (ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-31/) in the following format files:

   DNA - Fasta files containing sequences associated with the assembly (contigs, chromosomes etc.).
   Optionally RepeatMasked.
   cDNA - Fasta files containing cDNA sequences for Ensembl/ab-initio predicted genes.
   Peptides - Fasta files containing peptide sequences for Ensembl/ab-initio predicted genes.
   EMBL - Ensembl database dumps in EMBL format
   GenBank - Ensembl database dumps in GenBank format
   MySQL - SQL dumps of Ensembl MySQL databases; should be portable to any SQL database.
  DNA cDNA Peptides EMBL GenBank MySQL
Anopheles FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Honeybee FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Celegans FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Dog FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Ciona FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Zebrafish FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Fly FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Fugu FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Chicken FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Human FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Mouse FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Chimp FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Rat FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Scerevisiae FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Tetraodon FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP
Xtropicalis FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP FTP

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