Help & Documentation

Using this website

Our website offers lots of ways to view and interact with our genomic data - find out more!

• Adding custom tracks
• Tutorials
• Glossary
• Frequently Asked Questions

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API & Software

Ensembl releases all its software under an Apache-style open source licence. Our products include:

• Perl API for direct data access
• Virtual machine preloaded with API
• Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) and other command-line scripts
• eHive distributed processing system
• Web frontend (Apache with mod_perl) for mirroring this website

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Additional software packages, including external contributions, are listed in our Ensembl e!code directory.