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Retirement of archive 58
Please note that the archive websites for Ensembl release 58 (May 2010) will be retired in mid June when version 72 is released. This is in accordance with our rolling retirement policy, whereby archives more than three years old are … Continue reading
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File-based tracks – scheduled downtime
Owing to urgent storage maintenance work at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute some Ensembl data will be unavailable on the morning (UK time) of Monday 14th January, as it is served from data files on disk rather than from databases. … Continue reading
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Retirement of archives 55 and 56
Please note that the archive websites for Ensembl releases 55 and 56 (July and September 2009) will be retired this week when version 69 is released. This is in accordance with our rolling retirement policy, whereby archives more than three … Continue reading
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Retirement of archive 53 (March 2009)
Please note that the archive website for Ensembl release 53 (March 2009) will be retired next week when version 67 is released. This is in accordance with our rolling retirement policy, whereby archives more than three years old are retired … Continue reading
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Job opportunities at Ensembl
Ensembl has two job opportunities for talented computational biologists, computer scientists or bioinformaticians. These posts feature a competitive salary and an initial three year contract. Position 1: Ensembl Variation The Ensembl variation team leads Ensembl’s efforts to deliver and annotation … Continue reading
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Sanger datacentre downtime
The Sanger datacentre will be closing down for maintenance from midday (UK time) on Friday 21st October, until the evening of Sunday 23rd October. If you wish to use the Ensembl browser, try: uswest.ensembl.org useast.ensembl.org asia.ensembl.org As a result all … Continue reading
More Ensembl vacancies
There are currently two positions open in Ensembl at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Senior Web Developer – [Ensembl] Informatics We are seeking a highly motivated web developer with bioinformatics experience to prepare and produce data for the Vega project, … Continue reading
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World IPv6 Day and database maintenance
Please be aware that the Sanger Institute is participating in World IPv6 Day on Wednesday 8th June. There should hopefully be no disruption to Ensembl services during this time, but if you do have any problems accessing any of our … Continue reading
Archive retirement schedule
We have reviewed our archive retention policy, and it has been decided that we will now retain archive versions of the main Ensembl website for three years, rather than two as previously advertised. Archives will now be automatically retired on … Continue reading
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BLAST maintenance – 8/9th May
The Sanger BLAST servers are scheduled for routine maintenance on the morning of Monday 9th May. The queues will therefore be closed to new queries on Sunday 8th May, and access from Ensembl to BLAST will be disabled during this … Continue reading