The Ensembl “Geek for a Week” experience is a way for Ensembl software developers and our scientific collaborators to work in an intensive environment for short periods of time on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. Visiting “Geeks” will be assigned a desk within the Ensembl team at the EMBL-EBI and have an opportunity to work on their project with direct access to the developers who built the tools and the Ensembl scientists using these for data analysis. Here, we meet Yeorgia Argirou, who joined us in November 2022 as a “Geek for a Week”.
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Updates to the Ensembl Rapid Release FTP site
The layout of the Ensembl Raid Release FTP site will be updated in Rapid Release version 40, due in November 2022.
Continue readingCool stuff Ensembl VEP can do: display variants on AlphaFold-predicted 3D protein structures
The AlphaFold AI system developed by DeepMind predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence. You can now view variant locations on AlphaFold predicted structures in the Ensembl VEP web tool.
Continue readingDowntime of Ensembl mirror sites
As part of ongoing work to improve the performance and reliability of our mirror sites, we will be upgrading the underlying website architecture. While the upgrade takes place, the Ensembl mirror sites (USWest, USEast and Asia) will be intermittently unavailable for short periods between Monday 8th August and Friday 12th August 2022.
Continue readingCool stuff Ensembl VEP can do – provide evidence of protein interaction impact
Ensembl VEP integrates information from many different resources to help you interpret the functional impact of your variants. It now reports when variants fall in sites with evidence of impact on protein interactions, as described in the IntAct database.
Continue readingRetiring the Post-GWAS tool
The Post-GWAS tool will be retired in Ensembl 108.
Continue readingDisruption to Ensembl services
Due to scheduled maintenance work, a number of Ensembl services will be temporarily unavailable between Tuesday 26th July 2022, 15:00 (BST) and Wednesday 27th July 2022, 13:00 (BST).
Continue readingDisruption to Ensembl services
Due to scheduled maintenance work, a number of Ensembl services will be temporarily unavailable on Thursday 7th July 2022 between 10:00 and 13:00 (BST).
Continue readingUpdating branch names of the Ensembl GitHub repos
The branch names of the Ensembl GitHub repos will be changed from ‘master’ to ‘main’ in Ensembl 106 onwards.
Continue readingRemoving Regulatory Evidence from BioMart
Human and Mouse Regulatory Evidence datasets will be retired from the Regulation BioMart in Ensembl 107.
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