[ensembl-announce] Ensembl Genomes release 25 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 fruitfly assembly BDGP6
* New bread wheat assembly, including the BAC assembly of chromosome 3B
* New variation datasets for barley
* New assemblies and gene annotation for two plant pathogens
* Sequences from RNAcentral against selected genomes

Variation data in barley
We’ve added three new variation datasets for Hordeum vulgare:
*Five million variant calls from POPSEQ of cv. Morex x cv. Barke progeny
*Over six million variant calls from POPSEQ of Oregon Wolfe barley
*Over 7k SNP assays from the iSelect chip

Non-coding RNA sequences from RNAcentral
* Following the launch of the new ncRNA sequence resource RNAcentral, we
now show alignments of non-coding sequences against selected genomes.
Look for the “RNAcentral sequences” track in the ‘Region in detail’ view
and turn the data track on.

New genomes
* Additional 1,939 completely sequenced and annotated bacterial genomes
from INSDC

Other news
* Update to Ensembl 78 software
* Updated pan-taxonomic compara database

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