Ensembl 112 and Ensembl Genomes 59 are expected in April 2024. Check out what we’re up to, although we can’t guarantee everything listed here will make it into the final release.
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Changes to the annotation of genes located on human patch regions
In Ensembl release 110, we have introduced changes to the way that the location of human genes located on patches are annotated and stored in the Ensembl databases.
Continue readingGSOC 2023: Our contributors and their projects
Today’s blog focuses on this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC). GSoC is an international program founded by Google in 2005 with the purpose of bringing together open-source organisations, and developers interested in contributing to open-source software and getting an exposure to real-world software development techniques. Host organisations list project ideas, and applicants discuss these ideas directly with mentors from the organisations and devise a project proposal to Google, who issue a small stipend to successful applicants.
Continue readingEnsembl 101 has been released!
We’re pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 101, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 48. The highlights of this release include an update of the human gene annotation and new population frequency data along with 39 new genomes including a new sheep reference and crop cultivars.
Continue readingCool stuff the Ensembl VEP can do: analysis with RefSeq transcripts
By default, VEP uses the Ensembl/GENCODE transcript set when analysing your variants, but you can also choose to use NCBI’s RefSeq transcripts.
Continue readingWhat’s coming up in Ensembl 101 / Ensembl Genomes 48?
Ensembl 101 (and Ensembl Genomes 48) are due out in mid-August 2020. As with all releases, we cannot guarantee that anything listed here will make it into the final release.
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.
Continue readingEnsembl 100 has been released!
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.
Continue readingWhat’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 99 has been released!
We’re pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 99, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 46. Along with updates of human gene annotation and variation data, we have a menagerie of new and updated vertebrate species in Ensembl plus a whole set of new plants, mosquitos and flies in Ensembl Genomes.