<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Sébastien,<div><br></div><div>These JSON files are a fairly comprehensive dump of the data for a given species. I’d encourage you to have a look at a few examples and see if they have what you need. You'll find them in both Ensembl and EnsemblGenomes releases, going back to E92 and EG35 and in all future releases.</div><div><br></div><div>The checksum file contains the output of “sum”, the BSD checksum calculator, on the JSON file. You’ll see the checksum itself, the file size (in kb), and the filename.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for pointing out that there is no description for these files in the READMEs and help and docs.</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve updated the “current_README” files to add a line about the JSON files, and fixed the URL typo at the same time. The change should be reflected in the live FTP areas soon. I’ve also submitted a PR to add the description to the website help and docs page, but that won't appear in the live website until sometime after the upcoming 113 release.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>John.</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 10 Sep 2024, at 10:56, Sebastien Moretti <sebastien.moretti@unil.ch> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Hi<br><br>I have just found the Ensembl data in the JSON format on your FTP and have several questions and comments.<br><br>- How complete are those JSON files? Are they, kind of, a dump for each species database?<br>- Will those JSON files stay for long? Are they released now with each new Ensembl version?<br>- Do Ensembl Genomes provide the same JSON?<br>- What kind of checksum is provided with each JSON file (the CHECKSUMS file)?<br><br>Data in JSON are not mentioned on https://www.ensembl.org/info/data/ftp/index.html but in the species table, without description.<br>They are also not described in https://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_README<br><br>Best<br><br>P.S. there is a typo in https://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_README<br>Should be *see http://ensembl.org/* instead of *see http;//ensembl.org/*<br><br>--<br>Sébastien Moretti<br>Staff Scientist<br>Department of Ecology and Evolution,<br>Biophore, University of Lausanne,<br>CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland<br>Tel.: +41 (21) 692 4221<br>https://bioinfo.unil.ch/ https://www.bgee.org/ https://selectome.org/<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Dev mailing list Dev@ensembl.org<br>Posting guidelines and subscribe/unsubscribe info: https://lists.ensembl.org/mailman/listinfo/dev_ensembl.org<br>Ensembl Blog: http://www.ensembl.info/<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<div>-- <br>John Tate<br>e: jgt@ebi.ac.uk<br>a: European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), CB10 1SD, UK</div>
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