We have just released the latest update of Ensembl Genomes.
The highlights of this release are:
New genomes

Wild rice, plant pathogens and peach are some of our new genomes
Ensembl Plants
Amborella trichopoda
Prunus persica (peach)
Oryza (rice) genomes
Ensembl Protists
Bigelowiella natans
Pythium (plant pathogens) genomes
Ensembl Metazoa
Onchocerca volvulus
Ensembl Bacteria
1,246 additional genomes (11,010 genomes now represented in total)
New data
Ensembl Plants
Whole genome alignments
- Amborella trichopoda and Arabidopsis thaliana
- Amborella trichopoda and Oriza sativa Japonica
- five new rice genomes
- inter-homoleogue alignments between the wheat A, B and D genomes and integration with the gene trees
EST alignments
- Prunus persica
- wheat EST against bread wheat and its progenitors
Sorghum bicolor variation data based on the SAP panel (Morris et. al. 2013)
Homoeologous genes between the wheat component A, B and D genomes
Updated data
Ensembl Fungi
- Latest annotations for S. pombe from PomBase
- GO annotation projected from S. cerevisiae and S. pombe to all species
Ensembl Metazoa
- Latest EST-based genes for many species
- Removal of haplotype regions in Anopheles gambiae
- Peptide comparative genomes
Ensembl Plants
- Updated UniGene alignments in T. aestivum against its progenitors
- Peptide comparative genomes
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The Ensembl Genomes team.