EnsemblGenomes 31 is out!
Ensembl Protists now includes 158 genomes from 104 species and Ensembl Bacteria has been updated to include the latest versions of 39,584 genomes (39,183 bacteria and 401 archaea) from the INSDC archives.
What’s new in Ensembl Genomes 31?
You will find lots of legs and tentacles in this release of Ensembl Metazoa as ten new species scuttle, swim and slither into our databases. From the Antarctic midge to the California two-spot octopus, the new species illustrate the diversity of metazoa. Our new Metazoan species also include dog and rat parasites (the itch mite and a nematode), as well as species that are problematic for agriculture (Australian sheep blowfly) and aquaculture (the salmon louse and a myxosporean). The common bumblebee is an important pollinator, a brachiopod represents a new phylum in Ensembl Metazoa, while the African social velvet spider is a fascinating model of sociality and is the first spider in Ensembl Genomes.
Not to be outdone, Ensembl Protists now includes 158 genomes from 104 species and Ensembl Bacteria has been updated to include the latest versions of 39,584 genomes (39,183 bacteria and 401 archaea) from the INSDC archives.
Other news
Fungi: Updated annotations based on PHI-base 4.0 have been included. New variation data for Schizosaccharomyces pombe is available.
Protists: 4 protist species (Monosiga brevicollis, Thecamonas trahens, Cryptomonas paramecium and Chondrus crispus) for pan-taxonomic comparative analysis have been added. Ensembl Compara now includes protists from all the major Eukaryotic clades.
Plants: There are now 350,000 new rice variations across 3,000 rice accessions from 89 different countries as well as track hubs for more than 900 public RNA-Seq studies, totalling more than 16,000 tracks across 35 different plant species.
Metazoa: Updates applied to gene sets for the leaf cutter ant, red fire ant, the two-spotted spider mite and gene sets from VectorBase and WormBase.
Check out all the changes on our Ensembl Genomes website.
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