Ensembl 99 (and Ensembl Genomes 46) are due out in December and we plan to include a bumper set of new and updated species. As with all releases, we cannot guarantee that anything listed here will make it into the final release.
Major Data Updates:
New and Updated Vertebrate Species:
Updated:
- Zebra finch (bTaeGut1_v1.p)
- Asian bonytongue (fSclFor1.1)
- Fugu (fTakRub1.2)
- Nile tilapia (O_niloticus_UMD_NMBU)
New:
Birds:
- Golden eagle
- Kakapo
- Yellow-billed parrot
- Gouldian finch
- Burrowing owl
- African ostrich
- Swan goose
- Indian peafowl
- Eurasian sparrow hawk
- Golden pheasant
- Ring necked pheasant
Fish:
- Blue tilapia
- Golden-line barbel
- Blind barbel
- Horned golden-line barbel
- Common carp german mirror
- Common carp hobo red
- Common carp huanghe
- Jewelled blenny
- Pinecone soldierfish
- River trout
- Live sharksucker
- Orbiculate cardinalfish
- Gilthead sea bream
- Round goby
- Atlantic salmon
Mammals:
- Dog (Basenji)
- Dog (Great Dane)
- Canada lynx
- Siberian musk deer
- Chacoan peccary
- Sperm whale
- Meerkat
- Arabian camel
- Domestic yak
- Greater horseshoe bat
Reptiles:
- Komodo dragon
- Common wall lizard
- Eastern brown snake
- Three-toed box turtle
Plants
We also plan to add four new plant species:
- Sweet cherry (Prunus avium)
- Clementine (Citrus clementina)
- Morning glory (Ipomoea triloba)
- Wild sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum)
Metazoa
As part of the merge of Vectorbase into Ensembl, 35 new genomes, and a major genome update for one species (Aedes aegypti) will be added to Ensembl Metazoa:
Mosquitoes:
- Aedes aegypti (new L5 assembly)
- Aedes albopictus
- Anopheles albimanus
- Anopheles arabiensis
- Anopheles atroparvus
- Anopheles coluzzii (Mali-NIH strain)
- Anopheles coluzzii (Ngousso strain)
- Anopheles culicifacies
- Anopheles dirus
- Anopheles epiroticus
- Anopheles farauti
- Anopheles funestus
- Anopheles gambiae (Pimperena strain)
- Anopheles maculatus
- Anopheles melas
- Anopheles merus
- Anopheles minimus
- Anopheles quadriannulatus
- Anopheles sinensis (China strain)
- Anopheles sinensis (Korean strain)
- Anopheles stephensi (SDA-500 strain)
- Anopheles stephensi (Indian strain)
Tsetse flies:
- Glossina austeni
- Glossina brevipalpis
- Glossina fuscipes
- Glossina morsitans
- Glossina pallidipes
- Glossina palpalis
Sand flies:
- Lutzomyia longipalpis
- Phlebotomus papatasi
Plus the freshwater snail vector of schistosomiasis (Biomphalaria glabrata), common bedbug, the Lyme disease tick, common house fly and stable fly.
Other Updates
- Display of Atlantic salmon variation from EVA
- Adding gene synonym filter/attribute to BioMart
- Updated TrackHub configuration interface
- Update of Plasmodium falciparum variation data