Ensembl Variation - Schema documentation

This document gives a high-level description of the tables that make up the Ensembl variation schema. Tables are listed by alphabetical order, and the purpose of each table is explained. It is intended to allow people to familiarise themselves with the schema when encountering it for the first time, or when they need to use some tables that they've not used before.

This document refers to version ####DB_VERSION#### of the Ensembl variation schema.

The variation database schema diagram (PDF format) is available here:

Variation Schema Diagram