Ensembl
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The Ensembl project seeks to enable genomic science by providing high-quality, integrated annotation.
Ensembl has moved! We are ahead of schedule and all sites now point to the new Ensembl at ensembl.org. It is a major milestone in our 26 year long project! 🧬🧬🧬 Refresh your browser cache for our sites if you find an error this week ⚙️
Ensembl is moving this week! 🧬 Links will point you to the new Ensembl. The default site will be ensembl.org for all species from across the tree of life. We’re starting with the Ensembl Genomes sites, and we’ll end with the Ensembl 116 site.
Join @training.ebi.embl.org webinar on 1 July: Transitioning to the new @ensembl.org platform for genome data and annotation. We will cover features in development and the access the current Ensembl site. Register: zurl.co/VNaw3 Qs?: zurl.co/asl8M #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Training
New Ensembl FTP users, heads up! The FTP structure for the new site has been updated. The species name-based structure will be retired in August 2026. Overlap dumps are provided to help while you rework existing pipelines. Read more on our blog: zurl.co/sSbPj
Join our Ensembl Transition webinar series with @training.ebi.embl.org, focussing on the move to the new Ensembl browser and what it means for users.
Ensembl 116 + Ensembl Genomes 63 are out! Explore new pig, cattle, and oat genomes, updated alignments and new VEP plugins It’s a milestone! Our last on the current platform. New data from here on is via beta.ensembl.org More info on our blog: zurl.co/MrJ2A
Working with structural variants in human genomes? Try our new Alignments viewer with the GRCh38 and T2T-CHM13 genomes on the new Ensembl: zurl.co/LlemO Built in collaboration with the HGSVC! Read more on on the Ensembl blog: zurl.co/98juQ
30 years ago, the yeast genome was completed by an international team of scientists. Since then, S.cerevisiae has become a key model for understanding conserved biological processes and driving discoveries. Explore the annotated Baker’s yeast R64-1-1 genome in @ensembl.org @yeastgenome.bsky.social
Want to level up your fungal genomics skills? Join our hands-on virtual training in Fungal Pathogen Genomics, covering Ensembl Fungi and other top web-resources for the field. Apply today! coursesandconferences.wellco... Applications close: 28 March 2026 Course runs: 1-5 June 2026
Our #Ensembl colleague, Leanne Haggerty, along with scientists around the globe, recently spoke to Nature Methods (@natureportfolio.nature.com) about the human pangenome and its importance in research. You can read the full article at www.nature.com/articles/s415...
Ensembl release 116 & Ensembl Genomes release 63 are coming in April 2026! Read more in our declaration of intentions blog: www.ensembl.info/2026/02/12/... From summer 2026, ensembl.org redirects to beta.ensembl.org. Previous versions remain in Ensembl Archives.
Get to know the people behind Ensembl and meet Disha Lodha from the Ensembl Plants & Metazoa team in our latest #Teamsembl blog post at www.ensembl.info/2026/01/27/...
Elspeth Bruford presents on gene naming by the HUGO gene nomenclature committee, over 44000 genes named to date! “Nomenclature should not be offensive or pejorative”! @hgnc.bsky.social #PAG33
New long transcriptomic data are introducing complexities and opportunities into manual genome annotation! Jane Loveland @janeloveland.bsky.social shares new insights @gencodegenes.bsky.social #PAG33
José Pérez-Silva @jgperezsilva.bsky.social presents on gene annotation methods used by Ensembl at #PAG33
New #GeneAnnotation has been added to #Ensembl Beta, including annotation for Dasypus novemcinctus and Buteo buteo! You can explore all available species here: beta.ensembl.org/species-sel... Image credits: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...
Riddle number two of the day: this photo was taken at the very last stop of our final Ensembl workshop of the year… can you guess where?
In Nov, @aleenamolbio.bsky.social from Ensembl Outreach visited Uni Valle Colombia to introduce 100 students from 3 public schools in Valle del Cauca to EMBL-EBI research & open-access bioinformatics training. Inspiring the next generation of scientists! 🌱🔬 #STEM #Bioinformatics #Outreach
Attention developers and researchers working with Ensembl programmatically! Upcoming Ensembl API and data access changes are live on our blog. Read more about the new platform, new services, and migration timelines here: www.ensembl.info/2025/12/02/...
New datasets available on beta.ensembl.org! Highlights include oats from the PanOat project, human assemblies from HPRC Release 2 and the pocket water lily, submitted by Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Image credit - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...
Join us tomorrow to explore Ensembl resources for pangenomes! Leanne Haggerty is presenting on Ensembl annotation for human, model organism, livestock & crop plant pangenomes. Free registration: zurl.co/3sSUJ Full series:zurl.co/XrVdc #Pangenomes #Ensembl
Ensembl Beta 14 is now live! We've added many more genomes, including Uroteuthis edulis, the Swordtip squid from the Aquatic Symbiosis Project. Find out if your favourite species is available with Ensembl Beta's Species Selector: zurl.co/BRLSE #Ensembl #NewRelease
Thank you very much Manovikas Kendra Kolkata for hosting our Ensembl Genome Browser and Train the Trainer workshops! I enjoyed learning about the neurodiversity research done here and it was great to see how it is readily applied to improving patient's lives!
Ensembl VEP makes variant annotation easy with access to key reference data for filtering and interpretation. Now includes MAVE results, offering further insights across nearly all possible variants in targeted regulatory or coding regions. More on our blog (zurl.co/Aj9HH) #bioinformatics #genomics
Ensembl is in Kolkata! 🇮🇳 we connected with researchers at #incob2025 in a workshop about our new Ensembl site - beta.ensembl.org! Thank you to all who attended for your great questions and to the organisers for this great event! - www.apbionet.org jcbose.ac.in/home