Available Reference Genomes

NGLess provides builtin support for the most widely used model organisms (human, mouse, yeast, C. elegans, …; see the full table below). This makes it easier to use the tool when using these organisms as some knowledge is already built in.

Genome references available

NGLess provides archives containing data sets of organisms. Is also provided gene annotations that provide information about protein-coding and non-coding genes, splice variants, cDNA and protein sequences, non-coding RNAs.

The following table represents organisms provided by default:

Name Description Assembly Ensembl
bosTau4 bos_taurus UMD3.1 75
ce10 caenorhabditis_elegans WBcel235 75
canFam3 canis_familiaris CanFam3.1 75
dm6 drosophila_melanogaster BDGP6 90
dm5 drosophila_melanogaster BDGP5 75
gg5 gallus_gallus Gallus_gallus-5.0 90
gg4 gallus_gallus GalGal4 75
hg38.p10 homo_sapiens GRCh38.p10 90
hg38.p7 homo_sapiens GRCh38.p7 85
hg19 homo_sapiens GRCh37 75
mm10.p5 mus_musculus GRCm38.p5 90
mm10.p2 mus_musculus GRCm38.p2 75
rn6 rattus_norvegicus Rnor_6.0 90
rn5 rattus_norvegicus Rnor_5.0 75
sacCer3 saccharomyces_cerevisiae R64-1-1 75
susScr11 sus_scrofa Sscrofa11.1 90

These archives are all created using versions 75, 85 and 90 of Ensembl.

Automatic installation

The builtin datasets are downloaded the first time they are used. They are downloaded to the user home directory and stored in home/.ngless/genomes.

Manual installation

Is possible to install data sets locally, before running any script. They can be installed in User mode or in Root mode.

To install locally (organism bos taurus), use the following command:

$ ngless --install-reference-data bosTau4

If you install as a super-user, then the dataset will be available for all users:

$ sudo ngless --install-reference-data bosTau4

When attempting to install an organism if is returned True it means that the organism is already installed, and there is no reason to install again. Otherwise, a progress bar is displayed to provide information on the download.

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