
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">We are pleased to announce the launch of the <a href="https://rapid.ensembl.org/index.html" class="">Ensembl Rapid Release</a> site. Ensembl Rapid Release is a new, lightweight genome browser designed to allow quick release of the latest genome annotation for a large number of vertebrate and non-vertebrate species.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For all species presented in the Ensembl Rapid Release site, the available data and functionality will include:</div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Gene annotation</li><li class="">Repeat annotation</li><li class="">Protein feature annotation</li><li class="">BLAST functionality</li><li class="">File dumps including transcript and protein sequences and the soft masked genome sequence through the <a href="ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/rapid-release" class="">Ensembl Rapid Release FTP site</a>.</li></ul></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">More information and a detailed description of the Ensembl Rapid Release site can be found on the Ensembl blog:</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.ensembl.info/2020/06/25/ensembl-rapid-release/" class="">http://www.ensembl.info/2020/06/25/ensembl-rapid-release/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">For the latest news from the Ensembl project visit our blog at:<br class=""><a href="http://www.ensembl.info/" class="">http://www.ensembl.info</a><br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ben</div><div class="">On behalf of the Ensembl team</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="">

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