# Ensembl Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Ensembl provides a centralized genome browser and high-quality automated annotation for vertebrate species and key model organisms.

Managed by a partnership between EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Ensembl serves as the primary infrastructure for vertebrate genome annotation. The platform integrates diverse data types: gene models, regulatory elements, and genetic variations for species ranging from Homo sapiens to Danio rerio. Researchers utilize the Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) to interpret genomic variants and BioMart for custom data mining. Developers interact with the database through a robust REST API or the Perl API for high-throughput pipelines. The ecosystem now spans thousands of genomes (including plants, fungi, and bacteria via Ensembl Genomes) to support global comparative genomics research.

- Official technology site: https://www.ensembl.org
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Contrasting Language Omics Pretraining](https://lausanne.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ZjMIQM_LY9M)

CLOP is an adaptation of OpenAI's CLIP but for Omics - in this demo, genomics. The model is trained on fasta, bed and gff files (representing genomes of different species and their annotations) to learn meaningful representations for further retrieval, classification and generation purposes. The model embeds DNA sequences according to species and biotype (e.g. exon, long non coding RNA, pseudogene, etc.)

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Lausanne June 2025 Meetup — 2025-06-16 — Lausanne
- Public talk page: https://lausanne.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ZjMIQM_LY9M

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