Ensembl BlogEnsembl 97 and Ensembl Genomes 44 have been released! In this release you’ll find many new species, including some hybrid livestock, as well as important changes to gene sets for human and mouse and a new update to the human Regulatory Build.
Read on to explore the full details.
Are you interested in having us come to your institute to deliver an Ensembl workshop, but are not quite sure what it involves? This blog is a guide for you.
Both Ensembl release 97 and Ensembl Genomes release 44 are scheduled for mid- to late-June.
Included are a number of new livestock, fish, metazoan, plant, and protist genomes and genebuilds, as well as updates to the mouse and human GENCODE annotation and the human regulatory build.
Read on to see further details of the new data you can look forward to.
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Did you know you can upload your own data for display alongside the reference genomes in Ensembl? For some file types, and files larger than 20MB in size you will need to create a URL to attach the data, rather than uploading from your local directory. It’s not difficult to create these URLs, but there are quite a few steps, so read on to find out how!
Ever come across a transcript that seems to span multiple genes? These are called ‘readthrough transcripts’, or sometimes ‘conjoined genes’, and they’re more common than you might think. Read on to find out about what they are and what they do, and how we annotate these at Ensembl.
Excited for PAG? So are we! You can find several representatives of Ensembl at the conference, if not during our talks, workshops and posters then at the EBI booth 309 where we can chat with you about your data and how to use Ensembl.In this blog we catch up with Ensembl’s 2018 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students and hear about their now completed projects, and their reflections on the experience. You may have already seen our previous blog post which we published as they were just beginning their projects. Read on to find out how they went, what they learnt and what valuable advice they can pass on to aspiring GSoC students.
Excited for ASHG? So are we. You can find several representatives of Ensembl at the conference, as well as some of our close collaborators at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), including GENCODE, the GWAS Catalog, HGNC, the IGSR and the LRG. Read on to find out more about where and when you can see our workshops, talks or posters (listed in chronological order). We would all be very happy to chat with anyone, so if you see us around please do say “hi”!It’s probably reasonable to assume that the coding sequence (CDS) of a protein-coding transcript model is the feature that is of primary interest to most people who use Ensembl. However, both the 5’ and 3’ untranslated regions (UTRs) are important biological entities in their own right, and it is vital that we in Ensembl do the best we can to represent them accurately. However, the annotation of these UTRs is complicated, so we’re going to focus on exploring the annotation process for 3’ UTRs in this article (Figure 1).