[ensembl-announce] Ensembl 78 is out!

[Amonida Zadissa]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce that the latest Ensembl update (e!78) has 
been released: http://www.ensembl.org/

Highlights include:

* Instant VEP: immediate answers for a single variant (All species)
* Mouse: genes updated to GENCODE M4, and new assembly patches (GRCm38.p3).
* Transcript Support Levels (TSLs), APPRIS principal isoforms and 
GENCODE basic annotations are now accessible through Ensembl BioMart 
(Human, mouse, rat and zebrafish).
* Find Gene Alleles across patches and haplotypes (Human)
* Interactive species tree (All species)
* Improved Gene Tree export (All species)
* Updated pig HAVANA annotation in Vega
* Updated C. elegans annotation (WS245)
* Updated data from the Animal QTL database for chicken, cow, horse, pig 
and sheep.
* RNASeq data can now be displayed as BigWig tracks, which will enable 
faster rendering of these data.

A complete list of the changes can be found on 
http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/news.html.

Also, for the latest news from the Ensembl project visit our blog at 
http://www.ensembl.info

The Ensembl Release Webinar e78 is planned for Wednesday, 17 Dec 4-4:30 
GMT. Registration is free!): http://tinyurl.com/e78-webinar.

Best regards,
Amonida