Open EMBL files in your browser
Europe's twin of the GenBank record, from ENA and EMBL-EBI's tools. Open one right here as its map, sequence and features. Nothing leaves your device.
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What you'll see
Your sequence opens on its map, circular or linear, with its features, primers and the enzymes that cut it once.
- The map • Features as arrows in their colors, primers and unique cutters
- The sequence • Both strands, the features under them and each protein
- Find bases on either strand • IUPAC's codes, or a feature by name
- Export • The map as SVG or PNG, the sequence as GenBank or FASTA
About EMBL
EMBL's flat file comes from the European Nucleotide Archive, which EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute runs and which shares every sequence with GenBank and Japan's DDBJ. Each record says what a GenBank record says in a layout of its own, lines with two letter codes: ID for the name, length and shape, DE for the description, OS for the organism, FT for the features and SQ before the sequence.
The features are GenBank's, a type, a location and qualifiers, written on FT lines. ENA, EMBOSS and Biopython write them, and some labs keep their plasmids this way.
Filepeek reads it in your browser into the same map, sequence and feature list as a GenBank file: features as arrows in their colors, primers, the enzymes that cut once, both strands and each coding feature's protein, with Find for bases on either strand. Export saves the map as SVG or PNG and the sequence as GenBank or FASTA.
EMBL sequence file
.embl
Format
- MIME type
- chemical/x-embl-dl-nucleotide
- Made by
- EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute
- Released
- 1982
Inside the file
- ID line
- The name, length and shape
- Features
- FT lines, as GenBank's
- Sequence
- After SQ, in blocks of ten
- Written as
- Plain text with two letter codes
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens EMBL files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers download them or show them as text.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open EMBL
- WindowsSnapGene Viewer, free • UGENE
- MacSnapGene Viewer, free • UGENE
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I turn an EMBL file into GenBank?
Choose Export, then Save as GenBank. The features, their qualifiers and the sequence go along, for SnapGene, Benchling or any tool that takes GenBank.
What's the difference between EMBL and GenBank files?
Only the layout. Both come from the same shared archive of sequences, with the same features and qualifiers, EMBL's on lines with two letter codes and GenBank's under keywords.
Can I search for a primer's sequence?
Yes. Type it in Find, and it's found on both strands, IUPAC's codes included.