What’s coming in Ensembl 91

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Ensembl 91 is scheduled for December 2017 and we’re continuing our push to include the genome annotation for lots of new species. This time, we’re adding a whole new set of primate species to Ensembl.

Here’s what you can look forward to:

New assemblies, gene sets and annotations

  • Annotation of 12 new primate genomes, as well as updates to 6 existing genomes:
    • Nancy Ma’s night monkey
    • White-headed capuchin
    • Sooty mangabey
    • Angola colobus
    • Crab eating macaque
    • Southern pig-tailed macaque
    • Drill
    • Bonobo
    • Coquerel’s sifaka
    • Black snub-nosed monkey
    • Golden snub-nosed monkey
    • Black-capped squirrel monkey
    • Chimpanzee (update)
    • Gibbon (update)
    • Gorilla (update)
    • Mouse lemur (update)
    • Olive baboon (update)
    • Tarsier (update)
  • Annotation on the latest Cat genome assembly, Felis_catus_8.0
  • C. elegans gene set and annotation updated to Wormbase release WS260
  • Fruitfly gene set and annotation updated to Flybase release FB2017_04 (dmel_r6.17)
  • Updated Human cDNA alignments
  • Updated Mouse cDNA alignments
  • Updated microarray probe mappings and comparative genomics analyses for all new and updated species

Other updates and highlights

  • Updating our human variation database with:
    • COSMIC 82 somatic variants
    • HGMD 2017.2
    • DGVa structural variants
    • Phenotypes from NHGRI-EBI GWAS, OMIM, ClinVar, UniProt, Cosmic Gene Census, DDG2P, MIM Morbid and Orphanet
  • In other species we also have variation updates as follows:
    • dbSNP 150 in macaque, mouse, zebrafish, sheep, pig, horse, cow and chicken
    • DGVa in cow, dog and mouse, horse, macaque, pig, sheep and zebrafish
    • Phenotype updates from relevant databases in rat, zebrafish and mouse
  • Links to PharmGKB added from human variants
  • New web tool for Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) calculation
  • Updated GRCh37 regulatory features

For more details on the declared intentions, please visit our Ensembl admin site. Please note that these are intentions and are not guaranteed to make it into the release.