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Here we detail some of those improvements.</p> <a class="btn btn-default btn-sm" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2024/01/26/cool-stuff-the-ensembl-vep-can-do-new-options-for-custom-annotation/">Continue reading <i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a> </div> </article> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" id="post-15172" class="post-15172 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-01-release tag-assembly tag-ensembl tag-ensembl-111 tag-ensembl-genomes tag-ensembl-genomes-58 tag-grch37 tag-metazoa tag-plants tag-plugin tag-variation tag-vep"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2024/01/11/ensembl-111-has-been-released/" title="Permalink to Ensembl 111 has been released!" rel="bookmark">Ensembl 111 has been released!</a> </h2> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2024/01/11/ensembl-111-has-been-released/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-01-11T13:55:14+00:00" itemprop="datepublished">11th January 2024</time></a></span> by <span class="author vcard" itemscope itemprop="author" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.ensembl.info/author/bmoore/" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ben (Outreach)</span></a></span><span class="sep">·</span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2024/01/11/ensembl-111-has-been-released/#comments" itemprop="discussionUrl">6 Comments</a></span></div> </header> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>We are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 111, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 58 featuring a range of new Ensembl VEP plugins and tonnes of new and updated agricultural, fish, plant and metazoa species!</p> <p>Genome assemblies and annotation for many new species are also being continuously added to the <a href="https://rapid.ensembl.org/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ensembl Rapid Release genome browser</a>.</p> <a class="btn btn-default btn-sm" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2024/01/11/ensembl-111-has-been-released/">Continue reading <i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a> </div> </article> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" id="post-15163" class="post-15163 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-07-status tag-biomart tag-blast tag-downtime tag-service-status tag-vep"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2024/01/03/downtime-of-ensembl-tools-4/" title="Permalink to Downtime of Ensembl tools" rel="bookmark">Downtime of Ensembl tools</a> </h2> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2024/01/03/downtime-of-ensembl-tools-4/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-01-03T10:10:09+00:00" itemprop="datepublished">3rd January 2024</time></a></span> by <span class="author vcard" itemscope itemprop="author" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.ensembl.info/author/bmoore/" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ben (Outreach)</span></a></span><span class="sep">·</span><span class="comments-link"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Downtime of Ensembl tools</span></span></span></div> </header> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>Due to scheduled maintenance work, Ensembl tools will be temporarily unavailable on Tuesday 6th February 2024 between 11:30 and 13:00 (GMT).</p> <a class="btn btn-default btn-sm" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2024/01/03/downtime-of-ensembl-tools-4/">Continue reading <i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a> </div> </article> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" id="post-15112" class="post-15112 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-02-ensembl-vep tag-docker tag-singularity tag-vep"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/11/03/cool-stuff-the-ensembl-vep-can-do-easy-installation-and-annotation-using-docker-and-singularity/" title="Permalink to Cool stuff the Ensembl VEP can do: easy installation and annotation using Docker and Singularity" rel="bookmark">Cool stuff the Ensembl VEP can do: easy installation and annotation using Docker and Singularity</a> </h2> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/11/03/cool-stuff-the-ensembl-vep-can-do-easy-installation-and-annotation-using-docker-and-singularity/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2023-11-03T10:20:33+00:00" itemprop="datepublished">3rd November 2023</time></a></span> by <span class="author vcard" itemscope itemprop="author" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.ensembl.info/author/bmoore/" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ben (Outreach)</span></a></span><span class="sep">·</span><span class="comments-link"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Cool stuff the Ensembl VEP can do: easy installation and annotation using Docker and Singularity</span></span></span></div> </header> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>Here we will highlight how to get the most out of containers, enabling you to quickly start running any version of Ensembl VEP on a computer with Docker/Singularity installed. We have improved the Ensembl VEP Docker build process and updated our instructions on how to use Docker and Singularity.</p> <a class="btn btn-default btn-sm" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/11/03/cool-stuff-the-ensembl-vep-can-do-easy-installation-and-annotation-using-docker-and-singularity/">Continue reading <i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a> </div> </article> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" id="post-15018" class="post-15018 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-01-release tag-dbsnp tag-grch37 tag-mane tag-vep"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/09/13/whats-coming-in-ensembl-111-ensembl-genomes-58/" title="Permalink to What’s coming in Ensembl 111 / Ensembl Genomes 58" rel="bookmark">What’s coming in Ensembl 111 / Ensembl Genomes 58</a> </h2> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/09/13/whats-coming-in-ensembl-111-ensembl-genomes-58/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2023-09-13T11:39:41+01:00" itemprop="datepublished">13th September 2023</time></a></span> by <span class="author vcard" itemscope itemprop="author" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.ensembl.info/author/bmoore/" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ben (Outreach)</span></a></span><span class="sep">·</span><span class="comments-link"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on What’s coming in Ensembl 111 / Ensembl Genomes 58</span></span></span></div> </header> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>Ensembl 111 and Ensembl Genomes 58 are expected to be released in December 2023. Find out what’s coming in the new release, although we cannot guarantee everything listed here will make it into the final release.</p> <a class="btn btn-default btn-sm" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/09/13/whats-coming-in-ensembl-111-ensembl-genomes-58/">Continue reading <i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a> </div> </article> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" id="post-15011" class="post-15011 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-03-other tag-gencode tag-gene-annotation tag-patch"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/08/31/changes-to-the-annotation-of-genes-located-on-human-patch-regions/" title="Permalink to Changes to the annotation of genes located on human patch regions" rel="bookmark">Changes to the annotation of genes located on human patch regions</a> </h2> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/08/31/changes-to-the-annotation-of-genes-located-on-human-patch-regions/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2023-08-31T15:51:14+01:00" itemprop="datepublished">31st August 2023</time></a></span> by <span class="author vcard" itemscope itemprop="author" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.ensembl.info/author/bmoore/" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ben (Outreach)</span></a></span><span class="sep">·</span><span class="comments-link"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Changes to the annotation of genes located on human patch regions</span></span></span></div> </header> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>In Ensembl release 110, we have introduced changes to the way that the location of human genes located on patches are annotated and stored in the Ensembl databases.</p> <a class="btn btn-default btn-sm" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/08/31/changes-to-the-annotation-of-genes-located-on-human-patch-regions/">Continue reading <i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a> </div> </article> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" id="post-14883" class="post-14883 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-02-ensembl-vep tag-structural-variant tag-variant tag-variant-effect-predictor tag-variation tag-vep"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/07/21/cool-stuff-ensembl-vep-can-do-enhanced-structural-variant-annotation/" title="Permalink to Cool stuff Ensembl VEP can do – enhanced Structural Variant annotation" rel="bookmark">Cool stuff Ensembl VEP can do – enhanced Structural Variant annotation</a> </h2> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/07/21/cool-stuff-ensembl-vep-can-do-enhanced-structural-variant-annotation/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2023-07-21T10:26:35+01:00" itemprop="datepublished">21st July 2023</time></a></span> by <span class="author vcard" itemscope itemprop="author" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.ensembl.info/author/bmoore/" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ben (Outreach)</span></a></span><span class="sep">·</span><span class="comments-link"><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Cool stuff Ensembl VEP can do – enhanced Structural Variant annotation</span></span></span></div> </header> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>In Ensembl release 110, we have extended the analysis options available for structural variants (SV) in Ensembl VEP including more detailed molecular consequence predictions, more efficient integration of information from reference SV sets, support for breakend variant annotation and the integration of CADD-SV scores.</p> <a class="btn btn-default btn-sm" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/07/21/cool-stuff-ensembl-vep-can-do-enhanced-structural-variant-annotation/">Continue reading <i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a> </div> </article> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" id="post-14705" class="post-14705 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-02-updates tag-genome tag-hprc tag-human-pangenome-reference-consortium tag-pangenome tag-reference"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/05/10/the-human-pangenome-a-more-diverse-human-reference-genome-in-ensembl/" title="Permalink to The human pangenome: a more diverse human reference genome in Ensembl" rel="bookmark">The human pangenome: a more diverse human reference genome in Ensembl</a> </h2> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/05/10/the-human-pangenome-a-more-diverse-human-reference-genome-in-ensembl/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2023-05-10T16:05:48+01:00" itemprop="datepublished">10th May 2023</time></a></span> by <span class="author vcard" itemscope itemprop="author" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.ensembl.info/author/bmoore/" rel="author" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Ben (Outreach)</span></a></span><span class="sep">·</span><span class="comments-link"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/05/10/the-human-pangenome-a-more-diverse-human-reference-genome-in-ensembl/#comments" itemprop="discussionUrl">2 Comments</a></span></div> </header> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>The human pangenome, a high-quality collection of reference human genome sequences that better captures diversity from different human populations compared to the current human reference genome, is now available through Ensembl. </p> <a class="btn btn-default btn-sm" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/05/10/the-human-pangenome-a-more-diverse-human-reference-genome-in-ensembl/">Continue reading <i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i></a> </div> </article> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" id="post-14612" class="post-14612 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-07-status tag-service-status"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name"> <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/03/06/disruption-to-ensembl-services-5/" title="Permalink to Disruption to Ensembl services" rel="bookmark">Disruption to Ensembl services</a> </h2> <div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/03/06/disruption-to-ensembl-services-5/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2023-03-06T15:58:59+00:00" itemprop="datepublished">6th March 2023</time></a></span> by <span 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