[ensembl-dev] Inserting a new species in Ensembl

Diogo Costa costa.h4evr at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 20:52:57 BST 2011


Hi!

Yes, the meta table of the Drosophila_virilis_core_64_12 database has
multiple records, as shown below:

+---------+------------+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| meta_id | species_id | meta_key               | meta_value
                            |
+---------+------------+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
|       1 |       NULL | schema_type            | core
                            |
|       2 |       NULL | schema_version         | 64
                            |
|       3 |       NULL | patch                  |
patch_63_64_a.sql|schema_version                       |
|       4 |       NULL | patch                  |
patch_63_64_b.sql|add_operons                          |
|       5 |       NULL | patch                  |
patch_63_64_c.sql|is_ref_added_to_alt_allele           |
|       6 |       NULL | patch                  |
patch_63_64_d.sql|linkage_type change in ontology_xref |
|       7 |          1 | species.taxonomy_id    | 7244
                            |
|       8 |          1 | species.common_name    | Drosophila virilis
Sturtevant, 1916                    |
|       9 |          1 | species.classification | virilis
                             |
|      10 |          1 | species.classification | virilis group
                             |
|      11 |          1 | species.classification | Drosophila
                            |
|      12 |          1 | species.classification | Drosophiliti
                            |
|      13 |          1 | species.classification | Drosophilina
                            |
|      14 |          1 | species.classification | Drosophilini
                            |
|      15 |          1 | species.classification | Drosophilinae
                             |
|      16 |          1 | species.classification | Drosophilidae
                             |
|      17 |          1 | species.classification | Ephydroidea
                             |
|      18 |          1 | species.classification | Acalyptratae
                            |
|      19 |          1 | species.classification | Schizophora
                             |
|      20 |          1 | species.classification | Cyclorrhapha
                            |
|      21 |          1 | species.classification | Eremoneura
                            |
|      22 |          1 | species.classification | Muscomorpha
                             |
|      23 |          1 | species.classification | Brachycera
                            |
|      24 |          1 | species.classification | Diptera
                             |
|      25 |          1 | species.classification | Endopterygota
                             |
|      26 |          1 | species.classification | Neoptera
                            |
|      27 |          1 | species.classification | Pterygota
                             |
|      28 |          1 | species.classification | Dicondylia
                            |
|      29 |          1 | species.classification | Insecta
                             |
|      30 |          1 | species.classification | Hexapoda
                            |
|      31 |          1 | species.classification | Pancrustacea
                            |
|      32 |          1 | species.classification | Mandibulata
                             |
|      33 |          1 | species.classification | Arthropoda
                            |
|      34 |          1 | species.classification | Panarthropoda
                             |
|      35 |          1 | species.classification | Protostomia
                             |
|      36 |          1 | species.classification | Coelomata
                             |
|      37 |          1 | species.classification | Bilateria
                             |
|      38 |          1 | species.classification | Eumetazoa
                             |
|      39 |          1 | species.classification | Metazoa
                             |
|      40 |          1 | species.classification | Opisthokonta
                            |
|      41 |          1 | species.classification | Eukaryota
                             |
|      42 |          1 | species.classification | cellular organisms
                            |
|      43 |          1 | assembly.default       | v1
                            |
|      44 |          1 | assembly.mapping       | supercontig:v1|chunk:v1
                             |
+---------+------------+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+

On Thursday, October 27, 2011, Anne Parker wrote:

> Hi Diogo
>
> Did you load the Drosophila taxonomy into the meta table? That's what's
> used by the webcode to sort the species in the dropdown list - if there are
> no entries, or the entries are wrong, the species will be ignored.
>
> Cheers
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 27 Oct 2011, at 10:38, Diogo Costa wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > In the process of my masters dissertation I created a mirror of Ensembl
> web site in a local server. It is up and running except for BLAST and search
> functionality.
> >
> > I've been trying to insert a new species (Drosophila virilis, from
> FlyBase), but have been unsuccessful so I was wondering if someone could
> give some pointers!
> >
> > I've tried to follow the instructions on these two sites:
> >
> > - Ensembl doc:
> >
> http://cvs.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ensembl-doc/loading_sequence_into_ensembl.txt?revision=1.5&root=ensembl&pathrev=MAIN
> >
> > - Loading an Ensembl species database from scratch
> > http://www.warelab.org/blog/?p=218
> >
> > I have the genome sequences by scaffold and chromossomes and the CDS in
> FASTA format. Following the "Loading chromosome sequences and faking the
> assembly" section of the second link, I adjusted the script given to suit my
> data. I've managed to insert the data into the MySQL database.
> >
> > Then, I followed the instructions on
> http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/species/index.html to make the
> specie information available from the website.
> >
> > However, the specie doesn't show up in the list of species (yes, I have
> deleted config/packed/* and config/config.packed and restarted the server).
> > When accessing the URL manually (http://..../Drosophila_virilis/Info/Index)
> I don't get any error in the log file.
> >
> > The server is running on top of Fedora 14, if it makes any difference..
> >
> > I don't really know what I can do, or what other information I need to
> give to Ensembl.
> >
> > Is this not the way to go?
> >
> > Sorry for the long email,
> > Diogo Costa
> > Portugal
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