The latest release of Ensembl’s covid-19 site includes updated variation datasets plus new alignments and gene trees with around 60 other viral genomes.
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Update to the Ensembl COVID-19 resource
As part of Ensembl’s contribution to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, we have brought in some important new COVID-19 mutation data related to rapidly spreading strains and changes in virus effectiveness. This priority set of mutations comes from the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) and is soon to be included in the Ensembl COVID-19 browser.
Continue readingTraining in the Time of Pandemic
Were you planning on attending or hosting an Ensembl workshop in 2020, but your plans got cancelled due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? All is not lost, as we’re still providing live virtual training and here’s how it works.
Continue readingUpdate to the Ensembl COVID-19 resource
We are pleased to announce an updated release of the Ensembl SARS-CoV-2 genome browser, including new sequence variants generated from sequence data held in ENA and updated community annotation.
Continue readingCool stuff the Ensembl VEP can do: annotating SARS-CoV-2 variants
We had a number of queries about the Ensembl VEP related to its support for SARS-CoV-2. Here, we talk about how you can use the command line VEP to analyse your variants against the SARS-CoV-2 gene set from Ensembl.
Continue readingEnsembl under lockdown – Part 4
Whilst the UK has started to lift some of the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, Ensembl staff are still working from home. We are fortunate that we can continue to do this and that there are flexible working arrangements in place to support us.
Continue readingEnsembl under lockdown – Part 3
The start of the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it brought has affected all of us in different ways. In this blog, we hear from Michal and Beth.
Continue readingEnsembl under lockdown – Part 2
It’s now ten weeks since we have started working remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The novelty of the situation is gone and we got accustomed to the ‘new normal’.
Continue readingEnsembl launches COVID-19 resource
Today, Ensembl has joined the international scientific effort to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has spread rapidly since emerging in late 2019. Our SARS-CoV-2 genome browser and related resources at covid-19.ensembl.org are intended to support both basic research and ongoing work to develop treatments, diagnostics and vaccines.
Continue readingGENCODE are updating the annotation of human protein-coding genes linked to COVID-19 disease
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic presents a serious challenge to healthcare, economies and societies across the globe, one that has demanded an unprecedented scientific response. Projects across multiple disciplines are now re-directing their usual analytical efforts to meet this challenge head-on, and GENCODE are no exception. Our project produces human gene annotation, and we’re contributing to this scientific effort by re-examining human genes that may be relevant to viral infection and COVID-19 disease. We hope this work will support further research along these lines. For example, updated gene annotation could benefit studies to find disease-linked variants in patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms, including work by Genomics England and others.
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