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The Ensembl project produces genome databases for vertebrates and other eukaryotic species, and makes this information freely available online.
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What's New in Release 56 (15 September 2009)
- New species - pig (Pig)
- New species - marmoset (Marmoset)
- New rat gene set (Rat)
- Multi-species views (all species)
- New Regulatory Feature Panel (Human, Mouse)
More news...
Navigation tips from our blog- 2010-02-01: Ensembl Developers workshop 28-30 April 2010 in Cambridge, UK
- 2010-01-25: Calling all Americans (and Australians/NZ/Pacific Rim...)
- 2010-02-01: Ensembl Events in February 2010
Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes.
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