Ensembl Archives

About Archive Ensembl Genomes

The main Ensembl Plants site and the mirror sites are updated with the latest data approximately every three months. We maintain the Ensembl Plants Archive sites so that there are stable links to data from one release every year. As of December 2016 these will be available for five years. Archived databases are also maintained for at least 10 years. More information is available from our MySQL database documentation. We also maintain data archives from 2004 available from our FTP site.

For all enquiries, please contact the Ensembl HelpDesk.

Linking to the Archive Ensembl Plants sites

The Archive Ensembl Plants sites have two possible formats:

• http://<eg><relase_number>-plants.ensembl.org, e.g. https://eg59-plants.ensembl.org
• http://<three-letter-month><year>-plants.ensembl.org, e.g. https://may2024-plants.ensembl.org

For example if you are looking at the Alternative Splicing view for bread wheat gene HSP101c on the main Ensembl Plants site, the current URL would be:

https://plants.ensembl.org/Triticum_aestivum/Gene/Splice?g=TraesCS3D02G273600;r=3D:379535906-379539827

The equivalent archived page URL for EG59 would be:

https://eg59-plants.ensembl.org/Triticum_aestivum/Gene/Splice?g=TraesCS3D02G273600;r=3D:379535906-379539827

https://may2024-plants.ensembl.org/Triticum_aestivum/Gene/Splice?g=TraesCS3D02G273600;r=3D:379535906-379539827

So basically the URL is formed in the same way, just replacing the base URL. Unfortunately, owing to the change in site organisation between releases it is not always possible to map pages one-to-one between the current Ensembl Plants site and the older archives. If the link does not take you to the data you expected, trying using the search facility to locate the information.