Ensembl Tutorials and Worked Examples

Video tutorials

The tutorials listed below are Flash animations of some of our training presentations. We are gradually adding to the list, so please check back regularly.

Note that we are now hosting all our tutorials on YouTube for ease of maintenance. If you are unable to access YouTube, please accept our apologies - a selection of tutorials is available on the EBI E-Video website

Coursebooks and online documentation

Using the Ensembl genome browser

The following examples are available in PDF format:

• Introduction to genome browsers and Ensembl (PDF of Powerpoint presentation) [814 Kb]
• Coursebook: Access to genes and genomes with Ensembl (walk-through, exercises and BioMart) [4.1 Mb]
• Website Walkthrough - Variations [39 Kb]

Printable mini-course

• Module 1: Introduction to Ensembl
• Module 2: Search for a Gene
• Module 3: The Gene and Transcript pages
• Module 4: A Region in Detail
• Module 5: BioMart

Educational resources

The 2Can Project at the EBI provides beginners' guides to cell biology, genetics, and bioinformatics, as well as teachers' packs and more advanced information.

• Introduction to bioinformatics
• Genome browsing with Ensembl

BioMart

The following examples are available in PDF format:

• Data Mining in Ensembl with BioMart [0.6MB]
• BioMart walk-through [1.9MB]
• BioMart: The linked dataset [0.7MB]

Data Access with the Ensembl Perl API

API tutorials are available in HTML format:

• Accessing data with the Core API
• Accessing comparative data with the Compara API
• Accessing variation data with the Variation API