Ensembl 53

We are already working on our next release (out late in February 2009) which will come with the following:

Data

• New species added to our set: sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni), Anolis lizard (Anolis carolinensis) and zebrafinch (Taeniopygia guttata).
• Updated marker information for human, cow, dog, horse, chicken, macaque, mouse and Medaka.
• Updated manual annotation for mouse from VEGA.

Comparative Genomics

• Pairwise alignments with the new species (human/sloth, zebrafinch/chicken, lizard/chicken).
• New 31-way eutherian mammal alignment using these 2x genomes (based on the 9-way Enredo-Pecan-Ortheus multiple alignments): elephant (Loxondonta africana) , armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), tenrec (Echinops telfairi), rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), guinea pig (Cavia porcelus), hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), shrew (Sorex araneus), microbat (Myotis lucifugus), tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri), squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus), bushbaby (Otolemur garnetii), pika (Ochotona princeps), mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus), cat (Felis catus), megabat (Pteropus vampyrus), dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), alpaca (Vicugna pacos), kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ordii), hyrax (Procavia capensis), tarsier (Tarsius syrichta), gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni).
• The current clustering will be replaced by a hierarchical clustering sparse graphs (hcluster) for our trees.

Variation and Functional Genomics

• An improved array mapping environment integrates genomic and cDNA mappings, supporting multi-species databases.
• We'll link to Genome Wide Association from the NHGRI catalogue (Hindorff et al.)
• Genotype data for mouse (reference strain C57BL/6) will be included.
• Update of variation for dog, chicken and platypus.
  

Other

• Minor changes to our schema (check our ensembl-dev mailing list for details)
• Update the MySQL data in the Amazon elastic compute cloud.