diff --git a/datatypes_conf.xml.sample b/datatypes_conf.xml.sample
index 97fe736be05..4cbc8f1eece 100644
--- a/datatypes_conf.xml.sample
+++ b/datatypes_conf.xml.sample
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
             <converter file="bam_to_bai.xml" target_datatype="bai"/>
             <converter file="bam_to_summary_tree_converter.xml" target_datatype="summary_tree" depends_on="bai"/>
             <display file="ucsc/bam.xml" />
+            <display file="ensembl/ensembl_bam.xml" />
         </datatype>
         <datatype extension="bed" type="galaxy.datatypes.interval:Bed" display_in_upload="true">
             <converter file="bed_to_gff_converter.xml" target_datatype="gff"/>
diff --git a/display_applications/ensembl/ensembl_bam.xml b/display_applications/ensembl/ensembl_bam.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..60f4541c077
--- /dev/null
+++ b/display_applications/ensembl/ensembl_bam.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<display id="ensembl_bam" version="1.0.0" name="display at Ensembl">
+    <!-- Current Ensembl method of attaching user data via URL; archives older than ~November 2008 will use a different method -->
+    <!-- Load links from file: one line to one link -->
+    <dynamic_links from_file="tool-data/shared/ensembl/ensembl_sites.txt" skip_startswith="#" id="0" name="1">
+        
+        <!-- Define parameters by column from file, allow splitting on builds -->
+        <dynamic_param name="site_id" value="0"/>
+        <dynamic_param name="site_name" value="1"/>
+        <dynamic_param name="site_link" value="2"/>
+        <dynamic_param name="site_dbkeys" value="3" split="True" separator="," />
+        <dynamic_param name="site_organisms" value="4" split="True" separator="," />
+        
+        <!-- Filter out some of the links based upon matching site_dbkeys to dataset dbkey -->
+        <filter>${dataset.dbkey in $site_dbkeys}</filter>
+        
+        <!-- We define url and params as normal, but values defined in dynamic_param are available by specified name -->
+        <url>${site_link}${site_organism}/Location/View?contigviewbottom=bam:${bam_file.qp}=normal</url>
+        
+        <param type="data" name="bam_file" url="galaxy_${DATASET_HASH}.bam" strip_https="True" />
+        <param type="data" name="bai_file" url="galaxy_${DATASET_HASH}.bam.bai" metadata="bam_index" strip_https="True" />
+        <param type="template" name="site_organism" strip="True" >
+            $site_organisms[ $site_dbkeys.index( $bam_file.dbkey ) ]
+        </param>
+    </dynamic_links>
+</display>
diff --git a/tool-data/shared/ensembl/ensembl_sites.txt b/tool-data/shared/ensembl/ensembl_sites.txt
index c48232df1b3..793a7630032 100644
--- a/tool-data/shared/ensembl/ensembl_sites.txt
+++ b/tool-data/shared/ensembl/ensembl_sites.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 #http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/webcode/linking.html
 ensembl_Current	Current	http://www.ensembl.org/	hg19,felCat3,galGal3,bosTau4,canFam2,loxAfr3,cavPor3,equCab2,anoCar1,oryLat2,mm9,monDom5,ponAbe2,susScr2,ornAna1,oryCun2,rn4,rheMac2,gasAcu1,tetNig2,xenTro2,taeGut1,danRer5,ci2,dm3,ce6,sacCer2	Homo_sapiens,Felis_catus,Gallus_gallus,Bos_taurus,Canis_familiaris,Loxodonta_africana,Cavia_porcellus,Equus_caballus,Anolis_carolinensis,Oryzias_latipes,Mus_musculus,Monodelphis_domestica,Pongo_pygmaeus,Sus_scrofa,Ornithorhynchus_anatinus,Oryctolagus_cuniculus,Rattus_norvegicus,Macaca_mulatta,Gasterosteus_aculeatus,Tetraodon_nigroviridis,Xenopus_tropicalis,Taeniopygia_guttata,Danio_rerio,Ciona_intestinalis,Drosophila_melanogaster,Caenorhabditis_elegans,Saccharomyces_cerevisiae
 ensembl_May_2009	May 2009	http://may2009.archive.ensembl.org/	hg18	Homo_sapiens
+ensembl_plants	Plants	http://plants.ensembl.org/	araTha_tair9	Arabidopsis_thaliana