In our Getting to know us (a.k.a. Teamsembl) blog series we talk to Ensembl colleagues and ask them a series of questions. In February, we interviewed Natalie Willhoft, who recently took over the role of project leader of the Ensembl Automation team. Join us as we learn more about Natalie’s role, what she did before joining Ensembl and find out the exciting things she does with her family in her freetime.
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Cool stuff Ensembl VEP can do: reduce the number of human transcripts you need to consider without missing results!
Ensembl VEP calculates the location and likely impact of variant alleles on genes, producing extensive annotations, but there are now a huge number of human transcripts to consider. The new GENCODE Primary transcript set streamlines the variant annotation process, saving time in both analysis and results filtering/ interpretation.
Continue readingWhat’s coming in Ensembl release 114 / Ensembl Genomes 61?
Ensembl 114 and Ensembl Genomes 61 are expected in March 2025. Check out what we’re up to, although we can’t guarantee everything listed here will make it into the final release.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Jon from Ensembl Web
In our Getting to know us (a.k.a. Teamsembl) blog series we talk to Ensembl colleagues and ask them a series of questions. To kick off the year, we had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Keatley, who is the project leader of the Ensembl Web team. The Web team is the driving force behind developing, maintaining, and improving the Ensembl websites, including creating user interfaces and data visualisations. Join us as we explore Jon’s journey, the work he is currently involved in and the activities he enjoys with his family outside of work.
Continue readingRetirement of Ensembl Microarray Probe Mapping
Ensembl will retire Microarray Probe Mapping annotation in 2026.
We have frozen Ensembl Rapid Release
All Rapid Release data, including Release 65, has been uploaded into the new Ensembl Beta site. New genome data will only be released onto the Ensembl Beta site.
Continue readingEnsembl 113 has been released!
We are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 113, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 60. This release brings major gene and regulatory feature annotation updates in Homo sapiens (Human) and Mus musculus (Mouse). We have updated existing genomes and added additional genomes across the different Ensembl sites, including livestock breeds in Ensembl, three new species in Ensembl Plants and 26 new species in Ensembl Metazoa. Can’t find the species you are looking for? Don’t forget that new and exciting genome assemblies and annotations are continuously added to Ensembl Rapid Release!
Continue readingWhat’s coming in Ensembl release 113 / Ensembl Genomes 60?
We expect to release Ensembl 113 and Ensembl Genomes 60 in September October 2024. Below is a list of updates that we are hoping to include in the upcoming release. However, please note that we cannot guarantee everything listed here will make it into the final release.
Cool stuff Ensembl VEP can do: supporting alternative human assemblies
The Ensembl VEP command-line tool can annotate and filter variants called against the latest human assemblies, including the telomere-to-telomere assembly of the CHM13 cell line (T2T-CHM13). In this blog post, we provide examples of how to run Ensembl VEP with these new assemblies and list the additional annotations supported via plugins.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Reham from Ensembl Havana
In July, we talked to Reham Fatima, a member of the Havana team. The Havana team carry out manual annotation on human, mouse, zebrafish and rat genomes. Reham has contributed to the MANE and GENCODE projects. Read more about Reham’s work at EMBL-EBI and what kind of cuisine she likes the most. You can also see some amazing photographs she has taken in her free time.
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