castanyes blaves

A question came up on the ensembl-dev mailing list to the effect “how do I create an Ensembl species core database from scratch”. As this is something that we have to do once in a while, I thought it may be a good topic for a blog post.

I will concentrate on getting a ‘minimal’ database populated, i.e. the sequences, genome assembly and genes (without additional annotation).

In my experience, the exact approach for each species differs, mainly due to the different formats and semantics of the source data. The following description will probably need tweaking for a particular species.

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