Ensembl Variation - Available species

Species with databases

We currently have 19 vertebrate species with variation databases. A range of different information is available:

Short variant Long variant Genotype Association Prediction
Species Sequence variant (e!113 → e!114) Source(s) Structural variantSamplePopulationPhenotypeCitation SIFTPolyPhen
Cat - Abyssinian
Felis catus abyssinian
3.2 M 1 source - - - - -
Cattle
Bos taurus
103 M (+6.8 million) 1 source -
Chicken
Gallus gallus
25 M (-669,000) 1 source - -
Chicken (Red Jungle fowl)
Gallus gallus
26 M (-1.1 million) 1 source - - - -
Dog
Canis lupus familiaris
46 M (+8.6 million) 1 source -
Dog - Boxer
Canis lupus familiarisboxer
35 M - 1 source -
Domestic cat
Felis catus
3.2 M (-3,000) 1 source - - - - -
Goat
Capra hircus
34 M (-4.2 million) 1 source - -
Horse
Equus caballus
40 M (-2,000) 1 source -
Human
Homo sapiens
1.1 B (+246,000) 4 sources
Mouse
Mus musculus
125 M (+3 million) 1 source -
Norway rat - BN/NHsdMcwi
Rattus norvegicus
9.5 M (+179) 1 source - - - -
Opossum
Monodelphis domestica
1.1 M - 1 source - - - - - - -
Pig
Sus scrofa
70 M (-438,000) 1 source - - -
Platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
1.3 M - 1 source - - - - -
Sheep
Ovis aries rambouillet
89 M (+2,000) 1 source -
Sheep (texel)
Ovis aries
61 M - 1 source -
Tetraodon
Tetraodon nigroviridis
902 K - 1 source - - - - - - -
Zebrafish
Danio rerio
18 M (-19,000) 1 source - - -
Colour legend: From 1 to 999 From 1,000 to 999,999 From 1 million to 9,9 million From 10 million to 99,9 million From 100 million to 999,9 million Over 1 billion


Dynamically loaded species

We have extended our API to provide Ensembl views of variant data held at the European Variant Archive ( EVA).
  • Species supported this way have:
    • variant pages showing any available genotypes and allele frequencies
    • dynamically predicted gene consequences
    • variant tracks by location in the Region in Detail view
    • variant tables by location
  • They do not have:
    • BioMart support
    • the option to search by variant name
    • variant data in Ensembl VEP caches ( use the custom option for this)

Species supported this way:

We currently have 28 species supported this way:

Genotype
Species Variant (e!113 → e!114) Sample Population
American bison
Bison bison bison
19 K - - -
American mink
Neovison vison
34 K - -
Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
15 M -
Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
22 M - - -
Collared flycatcher
Ficedula albicollis
37 K - - -
Crab-eating macaque
Macaca fascicularis
1.6 M - - -
Domestic yak
Bos grunniens
30 M (+30 million) - -
European seabass
Dicentrarchus labrax
37 K - - -
Gibbon
Nomascus leucogenys
1.1 M - - -
Golden-collared manakin
Manacus vitellinus
124 K (+124,000) - -
Great Tit
Parus major
497 K (-1,000)
Greater amberjack
Seriola dumerili
9 M (-2,000) - -
Guinea Pig
Cavia porcellus
844 K - - -
Japanese quail
Coturnix japonica
8 K - - -
Macaque
Macaca mulatta
50 M - - -
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
337 K - - -
Mouse Lemur
Microcebus murinus
129 K (+129,000) - -
Nile tilapia
Oreochromis niloticus
63 K - -
Northern American deer mouse
Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii
81 M (+81 million) - -
Pike-perch
Sander lucioperca
975 K - - -
Prairie vole
Microtus ochrogaster
8 K - - -
Rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus
83 K -
Rainbow trout
Oncorhynchus mykiss
33 K - - -
Sumatran orangutan
Pongo abelii
9.5 M - - -
Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
5 K (-2) - -
Vervet-AGM
Chlorocebus sabaeus
67 M -
White-tufted-ear marmoset
Callithrix jacchus
14 M (-1) - -
Zebra finch
Taeniopygia guttata
1.5 M - - -
Colour legend: From 1 to 999 From 1,000 to 999,999 From 1 million to 9,9 million From 10 million to 99,9 million From 100 million

Other species

The full list of species in Ensembl, with their assembly versions, is available here.


Note: We only provide variant caches for species with Ensembl databases, but the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor VEP can be used to annotate variant data for any species with gene annotation. VCF files can be used directly in Ensembl VEP in place of a variant cache where available.


Restricted access data

Ensembl displays some human variant datasets with restricted access. We make these data visible as tracks on the genome browser, which can be turned on using the 'Configure this page' menu.

LOVD

We display only the high-quality curated data from the LOVD databases.

DECIPHER

We display both structural variants and short variants from DECIPHER. Data provided are only available for display in the browser, and not for bulk download.
Access to bulk data may be obtained directly from DECIPHER (https://www.deciphergenomics.org/about/data-sharing) and is subject to a Data Access Agreement, in which the user certifies that no attempt to identify individual patients will be undertaken. The same restrictions apply to the public data displayed in this browser no one is authorized to attempt to identify patients by any means.


Other data

Mastermind

We display short variants from the Genomenon Mastermind Cited Variants Reference (https://www.genomenon.com/cvr/).
If a variant has multiple alternative alleles, please note that HGVS and Mastermind output will only be displayed for one allele.