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Downloading All Gene Families From Mammalian Species In Ensembl

Hello everyone,

Can anybody kindly guide me on what might be a simple and efficient way to download all gene families from mammalian species in Ensembl? I browsed through the online resources and they say that there may be more than one way to download data but I couldn't "shape" the query either on Ensembl or Biomart (don't know how mysql tool will work).

My apologies if this question seems too simple but I haven't used any of the biological databases before in such capacity.

Thanks in advance :) Marki

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written by Marki • Marki

I'm confused. In the title you ask for all gene families from mammalian genomes and in the question you ask to download all the mammalian gene families... Those are different things.

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You can fetch gene families using the Compara API. There's a section on gene families in our online API course. If you're new to the API, you should look at the Core module before embarking on the Compara trees.

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