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Ensembl is moving to our new platform for genome data and annotation this week. We will begin with the Ensembl Genomes sites and end with the Ensembl 116 site at www.ensembl.org. 

The default URL for our new site will be www.ensembl.org. This site offers new scientific opportunities, as genomes and genesets are now available for a diverse array of species from across the tree of life.

Please explore the site and the range of data available, and contact us with your needs, especially regarding new data and working with pangenome data.

There are many new features coming to the new Ensembl, along with the features you have come to love in our legacy sites. If there is a feature you need which is not yet available on the new site, the legacy sites remain available via our archives.

We have a new integrated release on our new site – 2026-07 – which integrates the latest genesets from the Ensembl 116 and Ensembl Genomes 63 releases. Read more.

We also delivered webinars on transition topics, including Educating with Ensembl, the new site, and programmatic access to genome data. Recordings are available.

Thank you for your patience over this transition period, and for joining us as we aim to share more genome data than ever before. We look forward to the insights and discoveries to come.

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Ensembl 116 and Ensembl Genomes 63 are here! Highlights include new pig & cattle assemblies, 26 oat genomes, updated alignments and new Ensembl VEP plugins.

Special Notice – Ensembl Transition

Ensembl 116 and Ensembl Genomes 63 are the final releases on the current Ensembl site and platforms. 

All new data from this point will only be available through the new Ensembl site. In the next few months, the ensembl.org site will bring you to the site hosted on beta.ensembl.org. 

You will continue to have access to current Ensembl versions via Ensembl Archives, with the latest archives having extended tool support. The Ensembl USEast and Asia mirrors of the current main site will be retired over the transition period this summer.

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Ensembl 116 and Ensembl Genomes 63 are expected in April 2026. Check out what we’re up to, although we can’t guarantee everything listed here will make it into the release. 

Special Notice

Ensembl 116 and Ensembl Genomes 63 will be the final releases on the current Ensembl site and platforms.

From the summer of 2026, all new data will only be available through the new Ensembl site. The site, ensembl.org, will redirect to the site currently hosted on beta.ensembl.org. 

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In Ensembl release 116 (Ensembl Genomes 63), two large protein clusters in Plants have incomplete or missing homology data due to production constraints. To address this, we set about making these clusters accessible via the gene families view. Please read on if you’d like to know more about these clusters, both associated with the Panther subfamily ‘PTHR11439_SF127’.

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We are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 115, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 62. In this release – around 121,000 new protein-coding transcripts have been added to the GRCh38 human reference gene set. Two new breeds of cattle are now available (UOA_Tuli_1 and UOA_Wagyu_1) and the sheep reference has been updated to ARS-UI_Ramb_v3.0. Seven new plant species have been added: four oats, two garden peas, and one lablab bean. We have also added two new export modes for Newick trees which help to avoid stable ID clashes.

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In our Getting to know us (a.k.a. Teamsembl) blog series, we talk to Ensembl colleagues and ask them a series of questions about their role in the project. In June, we talked to Jack Carpenter, who is a visiting PhD student within the Ensembl Non-Vertebrates team. Learn more about Jack’s placement at Ensembl and the experience he gained

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We are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 114, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 61. This release brings an updated MANE set (v1.4) for the human GRCh38 assembly. We have updated existing data sets and added lots of exciting new genomes across the different Ensembl sites including rodents, livestock, plant, microbial and metazoa species. Variation data has been updated to EVA release 6 and is available for 39 species.

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