Ensembl VEP is now wrapped in a Nextflow pipeline which means you can analyse large variant sets more quickly using simple parallelisation.
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Ensembl 106 has been released!
We are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 106, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 53 featuring lots of new and updated data in this release including new and updated vertebrate, plant, worm and metazoan genomes as well as AlphaFold data for human, mouse, zebrafish, maize and soybean.
Genome assemblies and annotation for many new species are also being continuously added to the Ensembl Rapid Release genome browser.
Continue readingDisruption to Ensembl services
Due to scheduled maintenance work, a number of Ensembl services will be temporarily unavailable on Monday 28th March 2022 between 08:30 and 13:30 (BST).
Continue readingRetirement of Ensembl mobile site
The Ensembl mobile site will be retired in the Ensembl 106 release.
Continue readingCool stuff Ensembl VEP can do: flagging variants predicted to allow NMD escape
A new plugin was released in Ensembl VEP version 105 which reports when a variant introducing a premature stop codon may allow the transcript to escape nonsense-mediated decay (NMD).
Continue readingWhat’s coming in Ensembl release 106 / Ensembl Genomes 53?
Ensembl 106 and Ensembl Genomes 53 are expected in February 2022. Check out what we’re up to, although we can’t guarantee everything listed here will make it into the final release.
Continue readingUpdate to the Ensembl COVID-19 resource
The latest release of Ensembl’s covid-19 site includes updated variation datasets plus new alignments and gene trees with around 60 other viral genomes.
Continue readingHomology data available in Ensembl Rapid Release
The Ensembl Rapid Release genome browser now provides homology prediction for every available annotated genome.
Continue readingUpdated G2P terms supported in Ensembl VEP
Recent changes to the terms used in the G2P database are aligned with global standards, but are not compatible with old versions of the VEP G2P plugin. We’ve updated the latest version of the VEP G2P plugin (Ensembl 105) to be compatible with both the old and new formats.
Continue readingCool stuff Ensembl VEP can do: protein annotations from neXtProt
Together with the neXtProt team, we’ve created a plugin for the command-line VEP tool to retrieve and report information about the protein location of missense and stop gained variants.
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