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PANDA Group News - Ensembl Database Group News Archive

The following is an archive of the Ensembl Database Group related news items.

Date News Release
Jun 14, 2007
Ensembl release 45
We are pleased to announce the new release of Ensembl... more
Apr 18, 2007
Ensembl v44 released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the latest version of Ensembl... more
Mar 14, 2007
Pre! Ensembl site
This release features:
- The preliminary assemblies for the chromosomes 7 and 14 of the pig genome, Sus scrofa.
- The Equus1 - 7x Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) assembly of the horse genome from Broad
... more
Mar 1, 2007
Ensembl release 43
We are pleased to announce the new release of Ensembl... more
Dec 20, 2006
Ensembl release 42
We are pleased to announce the new release of Ensembl ... more
Oct 23, 2006
Pre! Ensembl site
We are pleased to announce the latest Pre! Ensembl site. New species to Ensembl are:
Bush Baby - Otolemur garnettii
Common Shrew - Sorex araneus
Microbat - Myotis Lucifugus
European hedgehog - Erinaceus europaeus
The sequence and assembly are provided by the Broad Institute, these are low coverage genomes ranging from 1.5x to 1.9x coverage. Additionally we have a new Cow - Bos taurus - assembly, Btau 3.1 from Baylor ...more
Oct 12, 2006
Ensembl release 41
We are pleased to announce the new release of Ensembl ... more
Aug 17, 2006
Ensembl release new pre-site
We are pleased to announce the new Ensembl pre-site, http://pre.ensembl.org/. We have updated the CanFam2.0 (dog) assembly pre site, by adding in additional gene models. There is now also a new Sus Scrofa (Pig) Clone Status Map... more
Aug 15, 2006
Ensembl release 40
We are pleased to announce the new release of Ensembl, with new low-coverage genomes, Stickleback assembly and genebuild, new species - Aedes aegypti, new Macaque assembly and genebuild and new genebuild on Rat assembly... more
Jun 19, 2006
Ensembl release 39
We are pleased to announce the new release of Ensembl, with new species/assemblies for Mouse, Zebrafish, Opossum, Ciona Savigyi... more
May 22, 2006
Pre Ensembl has the new Stickleback
Pre Ensembl has the first release of the Stickleback genome (Gasterosteus aculeatus)... more
Apr 20, 2006
Ensembl release 38
The Ensembl team would like to announce the V38 release of Ensembl. This is the second of our two monthly release cycle releases. The next release is scheduled in June ... more
Feb 24, 2006
Several New Species in Ensembl
Ensembl now contains data on the Rabbit , Small Madagascar Hedgehog, Nine-Banded Armadillo and Yellow Fever Mosquito ... more
Oryctolagus cuniculus Echinops telfairi Dasypus novemcinctus Aedes aegypti
Oryctolagus
cuniculus		 Echinops
telfairi		 Dasypus
novemcinctus		 Aedes
aegypti
Feb 16, 2006
Ensembl release 37
We are pleased to announce the new release of Ensembl, which contains updates to Mouse SNPs with the resequencing of strains, a new gene build, new assemblies and gene predictions on Ciona intestanlis and Xenopus Tropaclis, a new assembly of Anopheles Gambiae (as part of our Vectorbase collaboration) and new web display features ... more
Dec 7, 2005
Ensembl Version 36 Released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the release of version 36 of Ensembl... more
Nov 2, 2005
Ensembl Version 35 Released
We are pleased to announce the version 35 release of Ensembl, in this month's release we have introduced a new species into the main site: Opossum (Monodelphis domestica) ... more
Oct 24, 2005
Loxodonta africana in Pre-Ensembl
The Ensembl team are pleased to to trumpet the release of the Elephant genome (Loxodonta africana) ...more
Oct 23, 2005
Ciona savignyi in Pre-Ensembl
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce a new Pre-Ensembl site for the Ciona savignyi... more
Oct 5, 2005
Ensembl Version 34 Released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the release of version 34 of Ensembl... more
Sep 6, 2005
Ensembl version 33 released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the release of version 33 of Ensembl... more
Aug 27, 2005
 BioMart relaunched as a collaboration with Cold Spring Harbor
We are pleased to announce that BioMart is now a collaborative project between European Bioinformatics Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. We are confident that building on the experience and strength of the institutions that are key players in the field of bioinformatics will help us to further improve our software. The new BioMart website is now available at http://www.biomart.org
Aug 22, 2005
 Rhesus macaque in Pre-Ensembl
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce a new Pre-Ensembl site for the Rhesus macaque... more
Jul 27, 2005
 Ensembl version 32 released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the release of version 32 of Ensembl... more
May 27, 2005
 Zebrafish assembly Zv5 in pre-ensembl
The fifth zebrafish assembly Zv5 has been released today. You can download the genome sequence from our ftp site. We have also released a Pre-Ensembl database where you can browse the sequence together with alignments from different sources. Please note that these preliminary databases don't feature a gene build. Subsequent annotations including the Ensembl genebuild are ongoing and will be added as soon as they are completed... more
May 16, 2005
 Ensembl version 31 released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the release of version 31 of Ensembl.... more
Apr 11, 2005
 Ensembl version 30 released
This release includes a new rat assembly (3.4), the introduction of a new cDNA database for human, patches to variation databases, and a merge of the est and estgene databases... more
Mar 2, 2005
 Ensembl version 29 released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the release of version 29 of Ensembl. This release includes the Consensus CDS (CCDS) transcript set in human, import of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome, an update of all variation databases to dbSNP 124, and a new genebuild for chimpanzee... more
Mar 2, 2005
 A core set of human genes
Researchers at the EBI, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the US National Center for Biotechnology Information and the University of California, Santa Cruz, have released a core set of validated human protein-coding genes with unique and stable identifiers, making it much easier to locate and identify genes on the human genome... more
Feb 7, 2005
 Ensembl version 28 released
This release includes a lot of new and updated data including the addition of the Xenopus tropicalis genome, additional linkage disequilibrium (LD) data for human, new mouse genes, and updated SNP sets for human, dog and Anopheles.... more
Dec 16th 2004
 Ensembl gives human geneticists a Christmas present
Human geneticists can now see which variations on the human genome are inherited together, thanks to a new viewer in the latest release of Ensembl. Linkage disequilibrium view will help researchers to understand susceptibility to complex diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and many psychiatric diseases.... more [pdf]
Dec 15th 2004
 Ensembl version 27 released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the release of version 27 of Ensembl.
This release includes a lot of new and updated data including the addition of the dog genome, LD data for human, a patched human gene set, new imports of fly and worm, and updated SNP sets for a number of species... more
Dec 9th 2004
 Chicken genome gives insights into human genome
Researchers at EBI and EMBL's main headquarters in Heidelberg have played a major part in the analysis of the chicken genome, published today in Nature. This analysis provides surprising insights into the human genome. Regions previously thought to be 'junk' DNA in the human may actually have very important roles...more [pdf]

View Paper | BBC Article | Browse Genome
Dec 3rd 2004
 Ensembl Pre-release for Monodelphis domestica
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the pre-ensembl site for the first preliminary assembly for Monodelphis domestica (the opossum genome).... more
Nov 5th 2004
 Ensembl Pre-release for Xenopus tropicalis
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the first pre-ensembl site for a preliminary assembly of Xenopus tropicalis... more
Nov 3rd 2004
 Ensembl version 26 released
The Ensembl team are pleased to announce the release of version 26 of Ensembl.
This release includes a new human assembly and gene build in addition to fixes/updates in other species... more
Oct 21st 2004
 The Completion of the Human Genome
The painstaking completion of the human sequence greatly enhances its usefulness as a research tool. Preliminary analyses of the protein-coding genes, computed using methods developed by the Ensembl team at the EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, suggest that there are only 20,000-25,000 of them - far fewer than we predicted using the draft sequence...more | View Paper
Oct 4th 2004
 Ensembl pre-release: Cow Genome
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the pre-ensembl site for the first preliminary assembly for Bos Tarus (the bovine genome).... more
Oct 4th 2004
 Ensembl version 25 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl v25. There are no new assemblies in this release. The main data updates in this release are in the Compara database, which has both new data and some schema changes... more
Sep 10th 2004
 Ensembl version 24 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl v24. This release sees the inclusion of two new species into Ensembl - Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) and a Fresh Water Pufferfish (Tetraodon Nigroviridis), and new assemblies for Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Mouse (Mus musculus) ... more
Jul 26th 2004
 Ensembl version 23 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl v23... more
Jul 14th 2004
 Man's best friend now available in Ensembl and EMBL-Bank
Today scientists at the Broad Institute and their collaborators released the first assembly of the dog genome. As well as helping us to understand the biology and pathology of one of man's best-loved companion animals, its similarity to the human genome will help us to learn more about ourselves... more
Jul 8th 2004
 Ensembl Human Pre-release for Build 35
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the pre site for NCBI 35, at http://pre.ensembl.org/homo_sapiens/... more
Jun 3rd 2004
 Honeybee Pre-release
The Honeybee pre-release web site is now available at: http://pre.ensembl.org/Apis_mellifera/
Jun 3rd 2004
 Ensembl version 22 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl v22. This release contains the first release of MultiContigView, a new comparative genomics display which lets you view simultaneously two or more genomes which share local order ... more
Jun 2nd 2004
 Reactome released
A partnership between Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the EBI has publicly released Reactome, a curated database of biological processes in humans. Reactome will not only be useful to general biologists as an online textbook of biology, but also to bioinformaticians for making new discoveries about biological pathways... more [pdf]
May 11th 2004
 Ensembl version 21 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl v21. This release includes a major update to the gene buid on human, a new gene build on Fugu and the first appearance of a gene build on chimpanzee... more
Mar 8th 2004
 Chicken Pre-release
Ensembl have released the recently deposited Chicken assembly on the pre site at:
http://pre.ensembl.org/Gallus_gallus/
Feb 15th 2004
 Zebrafish Release is now available
The Zebrafish release web site is now available at:
http://www.ensembl.org/Danio_rerio/
Feb 15th 2004
 Mosquito Release is now available
The anopheles release web site is now available at:
http://www.ensembl.org/Anopheles_gambiae/
Feb 13th 2004
 Ensembl version 19.2 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the second release of Ensembl on schema 19... more
Dec 11th 2003
 Chimpanzee Pre-release
EnSembl have released the recently deposited chimpanzee assembly on the pre site at http://pre.ensembl.org/Pan_troglodytes/. The pre site provides browsability of the genome with intial gene structures determined by matching UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and RefSeq to the chimpanzee. BLAST and SSAHA searches are also enabled and download of specific regions... more
Feb 4th 2003
 Ensembl launches Genome Knowledge Base
Ewan Birney of Ensembl has teamed up with Lincoln Stein of the Stein Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (New York) to launch the "Genome Knowledge Base" (GKB), a sort of "travellogue" of the human genome.... more
Ewan Birney Lincoln Stein
Ewan Birney Lincoln Stein

N.B. This project is now called Reactome.
Nov 28th 2003
 Zebrafish Pre-release
This site shows the DNA sequence, repeat analysis, ab initio gene predictions, and BLAST comparisons. A fully-featured Ensembl build, including a full gene build, cross-references to other datasets and data mining interface... more
Nov 6th 2003
 Ensembl version 18 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 18... more
August 5th 2003
 Ensembl version 16 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 16... more
July 4th 2003
 Ensembl version 15 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 15... more
June 3rd 2003
 Ensembl 14 is now available
This release contains new New ZFISH2 whole genome shotgun assembly, annotation, and estgenes. New estgene database for human. Mosquito SNP dataset has been updated to dbSNP114. New human Vega manually annotated gene database. New protein family database. New compara database... more
May 28th 2003
 Mosquito Pre-release is now available
The anopheles pre-release web site is now available at:
http://pre.ensembl.org/Anopheles_gambiae/
May 8th 2003
 Ensembl 13 is now available
This release contains new assemblies for Mouse and C. elegans. SNP datasets for Human, Mouse, and Mosquito have been updated. Also microarray and GKB xrefs have been added... more
April 15th 2003
 Human Build 33: Essentially complete human genome
This pre-release site shows the first "essentially complete" assembly of the human genome... more
April 14th 2003
 International Consortium announces the completion of Human Genome Project two years ahead of schedule
All of the sequence data generated by the Human
Genome Project has been swiftly deposited into public databases, such as Ensembl + EMBL, and made
freely available to scientists around the world... more
March 4th 2003
 ENSEMBL 11 is now available
This release contains new assemblies for Human, Rat, and C. elegans. There are also new SNP datasets for anopheles, human, mouse and rat. The website also has new features, including: CytoView and new ExonView and TransView... more
Feb 17th 2003
 Pre-build ensembl site with mouse m30 genome
pre.ensembl.org provides displays of genomes that are in the process of being ensembl-annotated. It provides the earliest possible public view of completed genome assemblies in the world... more
Feb 4th 2003
 Ensembl launches Genome Knowledge Base
Ewan Birney of Ensembl has teamed up with Lincoln Stein of the Stein Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (New York) to launch the "Genome Knowledge Base" (GKB), a sort of "travellogue" of the human genome.... more
Ewan Birney Lincoln Stein
Ewan Birney Lincoln Stein
Dec 11th 2003
 Chimpanzee Pre-release
EnSembl have released the recently deposited chimpanzee assembly on the pre site at http://pre.ensembl.org/Pan_troglodytes/. The pre site provides browsability of the genome with intial gene structures determined by matching UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and RefSeq to the chimpanzee. BLAST and SSAHA searches are also enabled and download of specific regions... more
Nov 28th 2003
 Zebrafish Pre-release
This site shows the DNA sequence, repeat analysis, ab initio gene predictions, and BLAST comparisons. A fully-featured Ensembl build, including a full gene build, cross-references to other datasets and data mining interface... more
Nov 6th 2003
 Ensembl version 18 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 18... more
August 5th 2003
 Ensembl version 16 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 16... more
July 4th 2003
 Ensembl version 15 released
The Ensembl Developers are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 15... more
June 3rd 2003
 Ensembl 14 is now available
This release contains new New ZFISH2 whole genome shotgun assembly, annotation, and estgenes. New estgene database for human. Mosquito SNP dataset has been updated to dbSNP114. New human Vega manually annotated gene database. New protein family database. New compara database... more
May 28th 2003
 Mosquito Pre-release is now available
The anopheles pre-release web site is now available at:
http://pre.ensembl.org/Anopheles_gambiae/
May 8th 2003
 Ensembl 13 is now available
This release contains new assemblies for Mouse and C. elegans. SNP datasets for Human, Mouse, and Mosquito have been updated. Also microarray and GKB xrefs have been added... more
April 15th 2003
 Human Build 33: Essentially complete human genome
This pre-release site shows the first "essentially complete" assembly of the human genome... more
April 14th 2003
 International Consortium announces the completion of Human Genome Project two years ahead of schedule
All of the sequence data generated by the Human
Genome Project has been swiftly deposited into public databases, such as Ensembl + EMBL, and made
freely available to scientists around the world... more
March 4th 2003
 Ensembl 11 is now available
This release contains new assemblies for Human, Rat, and C. elegans. There are also new SNP datasets for anopheles, human, mouse and rat. The website also has new features, including: CytoView and new ExonView and TransView... more
Feb 17th 2003
 Pre-build ensembl site with mouse m30 genome
pre.ensembl.org provides displays of genomes that are in the process of being ensembl-annotated. It provides the earliest possible public view of completed genome assemblies in the world... more
Feb 4th 2003
 Ensembl launches Genome Knowledge Base
Ewan Birney of Ensembl has teamed up with Lincoln Stein of the Stein Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (New York) to launch the "Genome Knowledge Base" (GKB), a sort of "travellogue" of the human genome.... more
Ewan Birney Lincoln Stein
Ewan Birney Lincoln Stein
Dec 4th 2002
 Draft mouse genome announced
EBI scientists and other members of the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium have announced the publication of a draft sequence of the mouse genome along with an analysis that compares it with the human genome. This comparison has revealed 1200 new human genes and some intriguing clues about our evolutionary origins.
more [EMBL pdf]
July 24th 2002
 Ensembl: zebrafish genome released We are pleased to announce the availablity of the First assembly of the zebrafish genome .... more
July 24th 2002
 Ensembl: zebrafish genome released We are pleased to announce the availablity of the First assembly of the zebrafish genome .... more
May 29th 2002
 Ensembl African mosquito genome sequence release We are pleased to announce the availablity of the annotated draft Anopheles gambiae (African mosquito) genome sequence.... more
May 2nd 2002
 Ensembl Mouse v3 Released - The Mouse Genome version 3 has been released with 96% coverage of euchromatic genome. This was the result of whole ...more
July 17th 2001 Ensembl 1.1 is now available
Ensembl, the automatic annotation system for eukaryotic genomes, has released version 1.1 which covers 90% of known genes. more
April 27th 2001 Ensembl Update
Ensembl now covers 90% of know human genes, and has a new and faster web site with new displays... more 
Feb 12th 2001 The Human Genome sequence published
The Human Genome sequence has been published in Nature and Science. Data available in the EMBL nucleotide sequence database and Ensembl.
Feb 2nd 2001 Proteomes Project Released
Swiss-Prot and Ensembl have prepared a complete non-redundant human proteome set consisting of 30771 sequences... more
Jan 19th 2001 Ensembl 0.7.5 is now available
Ensembl (0.7.5) released with many improvements... more
Aug 31st 2000 Ensembl Update
A master web site called the Human Genome Central contains a list of regularly updated links to useful human genome project resources.
July 21st 2000 Ensembl Funding
The Wellcome Trust announced major funding for the Ensembl project, the database providing automatic annotation of the human genome.
June 26th 2000 The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project - the international project to identify all the genes of the human body - has completed the initial stage of the work. The information has been given away freely to the world - a vast and unique gift to celebrate the commonality of humankind.  Press releases
May 8th 2000 Ensembl M2 Released
Ensembl M2 released
Feb 21st 2000 Ensembl Released
The Ensembl project for the automatic annotation of eukaryotic genomes


See also the Sequence Database Group News Archive.


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