Editor’s Assessment

ENSEMBL is a crucial resource for the vertebrate genomics community. And ensemblQueryR is an R interface to the Ensembl API that facilitates flexible, fast, user-friendly and R workflow integrable querying of the database linkage disequilibrium endpoints. It’s been presented as easy to deploy, and after some debugging the work demonstrate that ensemblQueryR has improved performance memory usage and speed, delivering a 10-fold speed increase over analogous software whilst using a third of the RAM. As the Ensembl API offers >100 other endpoints, all of these have the potential to be wrapped into R functions and included in this package.