Ensembl Human

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About the Human genome

Assembly

This release is based on the NCBI 36 assembly of the human genome [November 2005]. The data consists of a reference assembly of the complete genome plus the Celera WGS and a number of alternative assemblies of individual haplotypic chromosomes or regions.

Full list of assemblies

The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium have published their scientific analysis of the finished human genome.

• Nature 431, 931 - 945 (21 October 2004)
• WT Sanger Institute Press Release

Annotation

The human genome sequence is now considered sufficiently stable that the three major genome browsers have come together to produce a common set of gene IDs for their annotations. This Consensus CDS ID set has been encorporated into the Ensembl database alongside the existing identifiers.

• More information about the CCDS project.

The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project aims to find functional elements in the human genome.

• More information about the ENCODE resources at Ensembl.

What's New in Ensembl 41

Homo sapiens News

• Variation databases
  

  Ensembl 41 includes the first release of variation data for chimp, to accompany the new assembly and genebuild.
  Read more...

• Small discrepancy between Ensembl and Mart
  Please note that, owing to a small data bug which was patched in homo_sapiens_core_41_36c after the Mart database had been produced, 21 miRNA genes and 92 miRNA transcripts have different stable IDs in the core database and the Mart database.
• Compara - whole genome alignments and syntenies
  

  Whole Genome Alignments

  Chimp (Pan troglodytes)

  Owing to the new Chimp assembly and genebuild, there is a new MLAGAN primate 3-way alignment of human, chimp and macaque.
  Read more...

• Ensembl Human - fixes and updates
  

  A large number of minor improvements have been made to the Ensembl Human core database this release, including.
  Read more...

• RNA updates
  

  Ensembl RNA data has been updated as follows:

  • New ncRNAs for Zebrafish, Chimp, Medaka, Elephant, Rabbit, Armadillo and Tenrec
  • Updated miRNAs for all chordates.

More news...

Statistics

* Total number of base pairs = sum of lengths of DNA table

** Reference assembly (Golden path) length = sum of non-redundant top level seq regions