Ensembl 115 and Ensembl Genomes 62 are expected in September 2025. Check out what we’re up to, although we can’t guarantee everything listed here will make it into the final release.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Suzanna Dickson (visiting PhD student)
Welcome to our Teamsembl blog series, where we chat with folks from the Ensembl team to get a peek into what they do. This month, we got to know Suzanna Dickson, a visiting PhD student with the Ensembl Non-Vertebrates team. Check out what Suzanna has been up to during her placement and hear about her experiences working with us!
Continue readingIntegrated Release available now on Ensembl Beta
We have released a coordination of genomic resources and analyses to the new Ensembl site: Ensembl Beta – https://beta.ensembl.org/. This Integrated Release, “Beta Release 2025-02”, contains 2,919 genomes, which are available for current and long-term use.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Jack Carpenter (visiting PhD student)
In our Getting to know us (a.k.a. Teamsembl) blog series, we talk to Ensembl colleagues and ask them a series of questions about their role in the project. In June, we talked to Jack Carpenter, who is a visiting PhD student within the Ensembl Non-Vertebrates team. Learn more about Jack’s placement at Ensembl and the experience he gained
Continue readingGetting to know us: Paulo from Ensembl Regulation
Welcome to our Getting to know us (a.k.a. Teamsembl) blog series, where we talk to Ensembl colleagues and ask them a series of questions about their role in the project. For this month, we chatted with Paulo Branco Lins, who is a bioinformatician and software developer within the Ensembl Regulation team. Join us as we learn more about Paulo’s role at Ensembl.
Continue readingEnsembl 114 has been released!
We are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 114, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 61. This release brings an updated MANE set (v1.4) for the human GRCh38 assembly. We have updated existing data sets and added lots of exciting new genomes across the different Ensembl sites including rodents, livestock, plant, microbial and metazoa species. Variation data has been updated to EVA release 6 and is available for 39 species.
Continue readingChanges to default track visibility in selected Cactus alignment image views
Gene and Sequence tracks in Genomic Alignment Images for selected Cactus alignments will be hidden from view at medium and large scales in Ensembl Release 114.
Continue readingDefault gene track for Human in Ensembl 114 changed to GENCODE Primary
The default track display for Human in Ensembl 114 displays transcripts from the GENCODE Primary set.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Natalie from Ensembl Automation
In our Getting to know us (a.k.a. Teamsembl) blog series we talk to Ensembl colleagues and ask them a series of questions. In February, we interviewed Natalie Willhoft, who recently took over the role of project leader of the Ensembl Automation team. Join us as we learn more about Natalie’s role, what she did before joining Ensembl and find out the exciting things she does with her family in her freetime.
Continue readingCool stuff Ensembl VEP can do: reduce the number of human transcripts you need to consider without missing results!
Ensembl VEP calculates the location and likely impact of variant alleles on genes, producing extensive annotations, but there are now a huge number of human transcripts to consider. The new GENCODE Primary transcript set streamlines the variant annotation process, saving time in both analysis and results filtering/ interpretation.
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