[ensembl-announce] Ensembl Genomes Release 6

[Jeff Almeida-King]

The Ensembl Genomes Project is pleased to announce release 6 of Ensembl
Genomes (http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/).

The main highlights of this release are:

* Software migration to Ensembl 59

* 2 new rodent malarial genomes, Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium
   chabaudi,and an update to the Plasmodium falciparum gene-set in
   Ensembl Protists (http://protists.ensembl.org/index.html).

* Variation BioMarts added for Plasmodium falciparum,
   Saccharomyces cerevisiae (http://fungi.ensembl.org/index.html),
   Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa indica, Oryza sativa japonica,
   Vitis vinifera (http://plants.ensembl.org/index.html), Anopheles
   gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster (http://metazoa.ensembl.org
   /index.html).

See the individual homepages for Bacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants and
Metazoa for more information.