[ensembl-announce] Ensembl Genomes Release 9 Intentions

[Dan Staines]

Dear all,

Please find attached a summary of our intentions for release 9 of 
Ensembl Genomes, due out on 19th April 2011. Please note these are 
intentions and are therefore not guaranteed to be completed for February.

These can also be viewed online at:
http://ensemblgenomes.org/info/release9

Best regards,

Dan Staines, on behalf of the Ensembl Genomes team.

General
- release scheduled for 19th April 2011
- update to Ensembl 62 software
- new Pan Compara database with species from
-- Ensembl
--- Gasterosteus aculeatus
-- Ensembl Genomes
--- Daphnia pulex
--- Leishmania major
--- Lottia gigantea
- updated pan concern databases from Ensembl

Bacteria
- no significant updates planned

Fungi
- updated S. cerevisiae assembly and genebuild and associated variation
- addition of Gibberella zeae
- addition of Gibberella moniliformis
- addition of Fusarium oxysporum
- updated peptide compara
- updated DNA compara database including Fusarium LASTZ alignments
- updated marts

Protists
- addition of Leishmania major
- addition of Pythium ultimum
- addition of Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis
- updated peptide compara
- updated marts

Metazoa
- updated core database for Drosophila melanogaster based on FlyBase 
FB2011_01
- updated core database for Drosophila pseudoobscura based on FlyBase 
FB2011_01
- updated core database for Anopheles gambiae based on VectorBase 
VB-2011-02 (new gene set and new datasources)
- updated cross-references for Aedes aegypti based on VectorBase 
VB-2011-02 (new datasources)
- updated cross-references for Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (sea urchin)
- addition of Lottia gigantea (owl limpet)
- addition of Daphnia pulex (water flea)
- addition of Capitella capitata (bristleworm)
- addition of Helobdella robusta (leech)
- patch for BLAT 3'-EST dna_align_feature orientation in Caenorhabditis 
elegans (WormBase)
- updated peptide compara
- updated marts

Plants
- addition of Oryza glabberina
- new variation database for Zea mays
- updated peptide compara
- updated marts

-- 
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/