[ensembl-dev] Question regarding gene Annotations discrepancies between GRCh38 and 37 on the latest API.

[Duarte Molha]

Dear developers

It was my understanding that ensembl would be keeping 2 databases running
in parallel for both GRCh38 and GRCh37 and so all genes would be receiving
annotation updates and both databases could be queried with the latest and
greatest ensembl perl api.

However I am finding inconsistencies in gene annotation what have left me
puzzled.

Take for example gene DNAAF5

http://www.genenames.org/cgi-bin/gene_symbol_report?hgnc_id=26013

If you query ensembl GRCh38 V80, the gene is there properly annotated

http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Summary?db=core;g=ENSG00000164818;r=7:726701-786475

However, on GRCh37 V80, the gene is still annotated with the previous HGNC
symbol HEATR2

http://grch37.ensembl.org/Multi/Search/Results?q=HEATR2;site=ensembl;page=1

the ENSEMBL gene ID is the same in both cases :

ENSG00000164818

Is my thinking flawed? What is the reason for the out-of-date gene
annotation for this gene?

Many thanks

Duarte
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