Ensembl 108 and Ensembl Genomes 55 are expected to be released in September 2022. Check out what we are up to, although we cannot guarantee everything listed here will make it into the final release.
Human
- Changes will be made in the default tracks in the Location view: cDNAs, EST cluster (UniGene) and CCDS not displayed by default when MANE Select is available.
Vertebrates
Updated genomes:
- Mitochondrial annotation for Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil, mSarHar1.11) will be added.
- RNASeq tracks including data from GeneSWitCH consortium for Gallus gallus (chicken) reference (GRCg7b) and chicken breed (GRCg7w) will be added.
Metazoa
Updated genomes
- Caenorhabditis elegans annotation
New species
- Amphibalanus amphitrite (Acorn barnacle)
- Acropora millepora (Stony coral)
- Acanthaster planci (Crown-of-thorns starfish)
- Actinia tenebrosa (Waratah anemone)
- Asterias rubens (European starfish)
- Dimorphilus gyrociliatus
- Daphnia magna
- Eurytemora affinis
- Exaiptasia diaphana
- Homarus americanus (American lobster)
- Hyalella azteca
- Hypsibius exemplaris (Water bear)
- Lingula anatina (Lamp shell)
- Mercenaria mercenaria (Northern quahog)
- Mizuhopecten yessoensis (Yesso scallop)
- Octopus sinensis (East Asian common octopus)
- Owenia fusiformis
- Patiria miniata (Bat star)
- Penaeus japonicus (Kuruma shrimp)
- Penaeus vannamei (Pacific white shrimp)
- Pollicipes pollicipes (Goose neck barnacle)
- Portunus trituberculatus (Swimming crab)
- Procambarus clarkii (Red swamp crayfish)
Other updates and highlights
- Variant data from the European Variation Archive (EVA; release 3) will be shown for Mus musculus (mouse), Rattus norvegicus (rat), Danio rerio (zebrafish), Gallus gallus (Red Jungle fowl chicken), Bos taurus (cow), Equus caballus (horse), Macaca mulatta (macaque) and Felis catus (cat). This will replace previous data from dbSNP.
- The following species will be available with variants from EVA: Macaca fascicularis (crab-eating macaque), Sander lucioperca (pike-perch), Microtus ochrogaster (prairie vole), Coturnix japonica (Japanese quail) and Ficedula albicollis (collared flycatcher).
- Highlighting of MANE transcripts and proteins on gene and transcript pages.
- The transcribed_unprocessed_pseudogene biotype is changing to have separate pseudogene and lncRNA gene IDs in human and mouse, which will increase number of lncRNA genes in the total gene count.
- The biotype processed_transcript to be replaced with protein_coding_CDS_not_defined.
- Retirement of postGAP tool (read more here: https://www.ensembl.info/2022/07/28/retiring-the-post-gwas-tool/).
- Peak features to be removed from overlap REST endpoints, which may affect queries.
- Aphanomyces astaci, Aphanomyces invadans, Globisporangium ultimum, and Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis to be removed from Ensembl Fungi, and fungal gene trees re-computed. These species will continue to be included in Ensembl Protists.