We’re pleased to announce that Ensembl now provides a public MySQL server hosted in Singapore – asiadb.ensembl.org. For users in that part of the world this should be much faster to query than the main server (ensembldb.ensembl.org) which is based in the UK. The new mirror server is similar to our US based mirror in that it contains databases for the two latest releases of Ensembl only; if you require access to earlier data you will need to continue to use ensembldb.ensembl.org. Please see the Ensembl website for connection details.