Category Archives: Web

Asia mirror temporarily offline

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Ensembl

We have had to take the Ensembl Asia mirror site offline temporarily owing to a database problem. We hope to have it back online in a few hours; please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. In the meantime, you … Continue reading →

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Retirement of archive 58

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Ensembl

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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Retirement of archive 57

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Ridwan

Please note that the archive websites for Ensembl release 57 (March 2010) will be retired  in mid January when version 70 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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New gene gain/loss tree view in Ensembl

Posted on November 15, 2012 by miguel

If you are interested in knowing the evolutionary history of your preferred Ensembl gene, you are in luck. Starting from this release (69) Ensembl has a new gene gain/loss tree view just for this purpose. This view shows the evolutionary … Continue reading →

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New feature: Image Resize on Ensembl Beta

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Ridwan

Did you ever wish you could resize our images/views to make them bigger? We now have a new icon on the blue image toolbar in beta.ensembl.org, and you can resize the image on one click. On clicking the icon, a … Continue reading →

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Share pages and images with your colleagues

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Simon Brent

Have you ever spent time changing your favourite Ensembl view (for example adding new tracks, changing the track order, or uploading custom data) and wished you could easily send the configured display to a colleague through one simple url? You … Continue reading →

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Retirement of archives 55 and 56

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Ensembl

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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ENCODE integrative analysis data available in Ensembl

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Steve Searle

We are pleased to announce that we are now providing access to the ENCODE integrative analysis data from within Ensembl. These analyses bring together a multitude of experiments targeted at determining functional elements in the human genome sequence. This data … Continue reading →

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Scrollable Genome Browsing

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Simon Brent

I am pleased to announce the release of a scrollable region view for Ensembl on beta.ensembl.org, available on species location pages (for example, here on Human chromosome 13) by clicking on the Scrollable region link in the navigation menu. This view is powered by Genoverse, an … Continue reading →

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Ensembl downtime Mon 16th July

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Steve Trevanion

All Sanger located Ensembl based websites (www.ensembl.org, pre.ensembl.org, archives and vega.sanger.ac.uk) will be unavailable for a short period on Mon, 16th July from 1300 GMT. We expect the maintenance to be completed within the hour. Ensembl mirrors (useast.ensembl.org, uswest.ensembl.org and … Continue reading →

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