We are very excited to announce the release of Ensembl 100, along with Ensembl Genomes 47! Time has really flown for us. We moved from our beginnings as a browser with just one genome 20 years ago to an integrated resource for many species and data types in 2020. In this release we continue to scale up, bringing you 29 new genomes and a lot more.
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Cool stuff the Ensembl VEP can do: variant citations
If you are filtering a set of variants to look for those potentially involved in disease, your first stop will probably be databases of phenotype associations, like ClinVar. There is also a lot of valuable information on variant-disease associations in the literature, which may not yet have been extracted into curated databases. It can be hard to compile lists of citations for a large set of variants, but Ensembl VEP is here to help!
Continue readingCool stuff the Ensembl VEP can do: annotating structural variants
The Ensembl VEP does not only allow you to annotate short variants, such as SNPs and short insertions or deletions, but also some types of structural variants.
What’s coming in Ensembl 100 / Ensembl Genomes 47
Can you believe it? Our next release will be Ensembl 100! We are planning to release it along with Ensembl Genomes 47 at the end of April 2020. As with all releases, please note that these are intentions and are not guaranteed to make it into the releases.
Continue readingEnsembl is part of the first Google Season of Docs!
Google Season of Docs (GSoD) provides a framework for technical writers and open source projects to work together remotely towards the common goal of improving an open source project’s documentation. This exciting new programme ran for the first time from September to November 2019!Continue reading
GSoC 2019: Our students and their projects
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a programme that has been set up by Google to introduce students to open source software development. It links students to open source organisations such as Ensembl. The students work remotely with their GSoC project mentors during the university summer break and get paid for it by Google. Both students and organisations go through a rigorous application and selection process. It ensures that the students are among the very best and that the organisations are committed to mentoring them and their projects effectively. We think that GSoC is a great programme for students as well as Ensembl as an open source organisation and are glad that we had the opportunity to be part of it again this year!
Getting to know us: Astrid from Outreach
Ever wondered what an Outreach Officer does? Meet Astrid who talks about her job and how she got here.
Ensembl 96 and Ensembl Genomes 43 are out!
These releases are huge in many respects, so it was difficult to decide which news to put first! Let’s start with some exciting news from our annotators.Continue reading
Changes to FTP directory layout in Ensembl Genomes 43 / Ensembl 96
We will make changes to the directory layouts of both the Ensembl Genomes FTP server (ftp://ftp.ensemblgenomes.org/pub/) and the Ensembl GRCh37 FTP server (ftp://ftp.ensemblorg.ebi.ac.uk/pub/grch37/) that may affect your pipelines. These changes will come into effect in Ensembl Genomes release 43/Ensembl release 96, which are scheduled for April 2019. Here are the details, so that you can plan any required updates to existing scripts and pipelines ahead of the releases.
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Joint REST server for Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes in Ensembl 96
As of Ensembl release 96/Ensembl Genomes release 43, we will retire rest.ensemblgenomes.org and invite you to use rest.ensembl.org instead.