Ensembl Zebrafish Genome Browser

Ensembl Zebrafish Genome Browser provides access to the zebrafish whole-genome shotgun assembly and integrated gene annotations for genomic analysis and interpretation.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive annotation: Stable automatic annotation that integrates gene predictions with external data sources.
• Whole-genome shotgun assembly: Host and reference of the zebrafish whole-genome shotgun assembly sequence for analysis.
• Downloadable data files: Provides genomic data as downloadable flat files for external computational analyses.

Scientific Applications:

• Genomic research: Support for gene identification, comparative genomics, and functional annotation studies in zebrafish.
• Model-organism biology: Enables investigation of zebrafish biology relevant to developmental biology and genetics.

Methodology:

The platform is developed using an open-source software engineering approach to produce a portable system capable of handling large genomes, incorporating tools for sequence analysis, data storage, and visualization and deployable across computing environments from supercomputers to laptops.