Ensembl version 81 release

Ensembl version 81 has been released, offering updated data and new features.

The new Ensembl release 81 includes:

• Human: updated to GENCODE 23 including manually annotated HAVANA annotation, with the new assembly patches (GRCh38.p3)
• Mouse and zebrafish clone tracks
• New mouse regulatory build
• Transcript sequence markup
• Mouse: updated to GENCODE M6 including HAVANA annotation with the new assembly patched (GRCm38.p4)
• Annotations now available in GFF3 format for all our species on our FTP site
• Phenotype data updated for several species, including human, mouse, sheep and chicken
• Sheep: updated gene set including lincRNA genes

More about release 81

You can read more about our most recent release on the Ensembl blog. 

A complete list of the changes in release 81 can be found on the Ensembl website, at http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/news.html