Other genomes

[dbitton]

Hi,
Your browser looks great
Could it support any Ensembl genomes for example http://fungi.ensembl.org/Schizosaccharomyces_pombe/Info/Index

Cheers,

Danny

[dasmoth]

In principle, yes it's straightforward to set up browsers for new genomes -- see the "embedding" and "configuring" sections of the documentation.

As a minimum, you'll want the reference genome sequence (in .2bit format) and a gene-set (generally in bigBed format, although there are other options). In the case of Ensembl species, it's also possible to retrieve the gene set using the Ensembl REST APIs.

One useful addition might be to be able to retrieve genome sequences from the Ensembl REST API (not currently supported, but the Ensembl API provides the necessary endpoints for this). At this point, it should be straightforward to bootstrap a Biodalliance instance for any Ensembl species -- is this what you have in mind?

[dbitton]

Many thanks,
Yes I would like to have Biodalliance on our webserver for the Ensembl version of S. pombe genome