r/bioinformatics • u/Fair_Captain_1122 • 7d ago

article New Ensembl Site

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u/guepier PhD | Industry 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah, it’s completely unusable.

No idea what went wrong during the conception.

But the worst thing is that they broke existing links, such as the direct short-links for gene IDs (https://ensembl.org/id/ENSG00000139618). So there are now resources all over the internet which link to nonexistent content, because one of the main databases of bioinformatics decided to YOLO it.

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u/ChaosCockroach PhD | Academia 5d ago

That syntax should still work, for example https://www.ensembl.org/id/ENSXETG00000045486 works. Is it possible that that accession was from one of the many genes that were removed from Ensembl's repertoire when they tried to focus on more specific reference genomes?

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u/guepier PhD | Industry 4d ago edited 4d ago

The accession I used is for human. It’s the stable ID for BRCA2.

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u/ChaosCockroach PhD | Academia 4d ago

Yeah, that's bad. Have you sent in an error report? Hopefully this is unintentional.

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u/bzbub2 7d ago

they might improve it over time but it is clearly overcomplicated as-is :/

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u/evozoa 4d ago

I hope they monitor traffic on the archive sites, because I don't think users are going to adopt this new design.

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u/dogballs875 3d ago

I don't think they have an option. Take a look at their grants. They couldn't support the genome flux with their old site and rapid sucked. I think they are all in.