<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">We are delighted to announce that the latest update of Ensembl Genomes has been released.<br class=""><br class="">Highlights of this release include:<div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><ul class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 24.2999992370605px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#373737" class="">Software update: now version 81 of the </font><font class=""><a href="https://github.com/Ensembl" class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">Ensembl project</font></a><font color="#ffffff" class=""> </font></font><font color="#373737" class="">for all our 23,636 </font><span class=""><a href="http://ensemblgenomes.org/info/genomes" class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">genomes</font></a></span><font color="#373737" class=""> from 4,991 species</font></li><li class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-style: inherit; line-height: 24.2999992370605px;">Annotation update:</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-style: inherit; line-height: 24.2999992370605px;"> </span><em class="" style="line-height: 24.2999992370605px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://fungi.ensembl.org/Schizosaccharomyces_pombe/Info/Index" class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">Schizosaccharomyces pombe</font></a></em><span class="" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); font-style: inherit; line-height: 24.2999992370605px;"> genes based on version 53 of PomBase Chado</span></li><li class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#373737" class="">Protein domains for </font><a href="http://protists.ensembl.org/" class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">Protists</font></a><font color="#373737" class="">, </font><a href="http://metazoa.ensembl.org/" class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">Metazoa</font></a><font color="#373737" class="">, </font><a href="http://fungi.ensembl.org/" class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">Fungi</font></a><font color="#373737" class=""> and </font><a href="http://plants.ensembl.org/" class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">Plants</font></a><font color="#373737" class=""> recalculated with the </font><a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/;jsessionid=0530785921665F3F4E79EC281E8A4FDB" class="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">InterProScan</font></a><font color="#373737" class=""> (version 5.13-52.0)</font></li><li class="" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 24.2999992370605px;">Updated BioMart: Protists, Metazoa, Fungi and Plants.</span></li><li class="" style="color: rgb(55, 55, 55); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="" style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 24.2999992370605px;">MySQL databases for release 18 are no longer available</span></li></ul><div class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 24.2999992370605px; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); widows: 1;">Check our release</span><font color="#0433ff" class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 24.2999992370605px; widows: 1;"> </span><a href="http://www.ensembl.info/blog/2015/06/16/ensembl-genomes-release-27-is-out/" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">blog post</font></a></font><span class="" style="line-height: 24.2999992370605px; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); widows: 1;"> for more details on </span><a href="http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Ensembl Genomes</font></a><span class="" style="line-height: 24.2999992370605px; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); widows: 1;"> release 28</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="line-height: 24.2999992370605px; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); widows: 1;">Any questions or comments? </span><a href="mailto:helpdesk@ensemblgenomes.org" class="" style="line-height: 24.2999992370605px; widows: 1; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">Get in touch</font></a><span class="" style="line-height: 24.2999992370605px; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); widows: 1;">.</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class="">The Ensembl Genomes team</div><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/ensemblgenomes" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">@ensemblgenomes</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>