[ensembl-announce] Ensembl Genomes release 24 is out!

[Denise Carvalho-Silva]

Dear all,

We have just released the latest update of Ensembl Genomes.
The highlights of our new release are:

New Genomes

Ensembl Metazoa
*Zootermopsis nevadensis

Ensembl Bacteria
*4,310 new genomes: 20,254 genomes in total, including bacteria and archaea

New Data

Ensembl Plants
*Barley genome assembly based on PopSeq data
*SIFT scores for all missense variants in bread wheat
*Inter-homoeologous variation (IHV) data in bread wheat
*Variation data in tomato from the 150 Tomato Genome ReSequencing Project

Ensembl Fungi
*Variation data for Puccinia graminis Ug99
*DNA alignments for Hypocreales and Pucciniales

Updated Data

Ensembl Fungi
*GO term projections from Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Saccharomyces
cerevisiae to other species
*Updated PHI-base data for plant pathogens

Ensembl Fungi, Protists, Metazoa, and Plants

We have also updated all BioMarts, gene trees, protein domain
classification using InterPro version 48.0 and InterProScan version 5, and
comparative genomics.

A complete list of the changes can be found on the Ensembl Genomes website.

Get in touch if you have any questions or comments.

Best wishes,
The Ensembl Genomes team