Geographic Location of a specific strain

Question

[Tanvir Ahamed]

Hi,

How to get the geographic information of a specific genome i.e. the area of collected sample of that genome?

Thanks in advance

[Devon Ryan]

There's no single answer to this question. Perhaps that information is online, perhaps not. Some databases will have a slot to hold that information, others won't.

[Tanvir Ahamed]

I am working on bacterial genome from Ensembl database . But I did not find any specific information on geographic location of specific strain of a genome in any format of data.

Am I missing this information from ensembl or its not available there?

Or is there any other database from where I can get this information?

Of course I can get this geographic location information for a single genome from the article/paper, where they have published it. But for 5000 or more genome, it's impossible.

Thanks

[Devon Ryan]

I've never seen it in the Ensembl database, but you could just ask the Ensembl helpdesk to find out for sure.

[Tanvir Ahamed]

Thanks for your reply.

Ensembl Help desk suggest the web link: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena

But I think, this type of metadata is not available so frequently.

The only way to go with the relevant publication search, but it is really impossible.

Let see what happen!!!!!