[ensembl-announce] Ensembl Genomes Release 7 Intentions

[Dan Staines]

Dear all,

Please find attached a summary of our intentions for release 7 of 
Ensembl Genomes, due out on November 9th 2010. Please note these are 
intentions and are therefore not guaranteed to be completed for November.

These can also be viewed online at:
http://ensemblgenomes.org/releases/release7

Best regards,

Dan Staines, on behalf of the Ensembl Genomes team.

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Ensembl Genomes 7 Release Intentions
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General
- release scheduled for 9th November 2010
- update to Ensembl 60 software
- new Pan Compara database to include e60 vertebrate genomes and wheat rust
- updated pan concern databases from Ensembl

Bacteria
- updates to core databases for all collections to include latest data 
from ENA and UniProtKB (including over 60 new genomes acress 5 collections)
- updated funcgen databases for Escherichia/Shigella and Staphylococcus 
clades
- updated DNA and peptide compara databases
- updated gene and sequence biomarts

Protists
- standardisation of seq_region names and analysis types
- updated tracks for P. falciparum RNASeq data in web interface

Fungi
- standardisation of seq_region names and analysis types
- new core database for Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (wheat rust)
- updated peptide compara database
- updated gene and sequence biomarts

Metazoa
- new core database for Acyrthosiphon pisum (pea aphid)
- updated A. gambiae variation database
- updated DNA compara
- updated peptide compara
- updated gene, sequence and variation biomarts

Plants
- updated core database for A. thaliana based on TAIR 10
- new core db for Physcomitrella patens
- updated core db for new gene for O. sativa indica
- updated funcgen database for A. thaliana, O. sativa indica, O. sativa 
japonica
- updated variation database A. thaliana including new data from 
Nordborg 3.04 and WTCHG
- updated variation database for O. sativa indica variation based on new 
gene set
- updated compara databases
- updated gene, sequence and variation biomarts

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Dan Staines, PhD               Ensembl Genomes Technical Coordinator
EMBL-EBI                       Tel: +44-(0)1223-492507
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus   Fax: +44-(0)1223-494468
Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK         http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/