[ensembl-announce] Ensembl release 81 is out!

[Thomas Maurel]

We are pleased to announce that the latest Ensembl update (e!81) has been released: http://www.ensembl.org/ <http://www.ensembl.org/>

Highlights of this release include:

Human <http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Info/Index>: updated to GENCODE 23 including manually annotated HAVANA annotation, with the new assembly patches (GRCh38.p3 <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/human/>)
Mouse <http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/Info/Index> and zebrafish <http://www.ensembl.org/Danio_rerio/Info/Index> clone tracks
New mouse <http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/Regulation/Summary?db=funcgen;fdb=funcgen;r=4:136835401-136838400;rf=ENSMUSR00000233228> regulatory build
Transcript sequence markup
Mouse <http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/Info/Index>: updated to GENCODE M6 including HAVANA annotation with the new assembly patched (GRCm38.p4 <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/mouse/>)
Annotations now available in GFF3 format for all our species on our FTP site <ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-81/gff3>
Phenotype data updated for several species, including human <http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Info/Index>, mouse <http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/Info/Index>, sheep <http://www.ensembl.org/Ovis_aries/Info/Index> and chicken <http://www.ensembl.org/Gallus_gallus/Info/Index>Sheep <http://www.ensembl.org/Ovis_aries/Info/Index>: updated gene set including lincRNA genes


A complete list of the changes in release 81 can be found at http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/news.html <http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/news.html>

For the latest news from the Ensembl project visit our blog at http://www.ensembl.info <http://www.ensembl.info/>

The release 81 blog post can be viewed here: http://www.ensembl.info/blog/2015/07/16/ensembl-81-has-been-released/ <http://www.ensembl.info/blog/2015/07/16/ensembl-81-has-been-released/>


Best Regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Maurel
Bioinformatician - Ensembl Production Team
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom

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