<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Dear all,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">The Ensembl Genomes Project is pleased to announce release 14 of <a href="http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/">Ensembl Genomes</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">This release contains 11 new genomes, bringing the total genomes supported to <a href="http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/info/species">352</a>. Main highlights are:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">* Four new genomes in Ensembl Protists: the ciliate protozoa <a href="http://protists.ensembl.org/Tetrahymena_thermophila/Info/Index"><i>Tetrahymena thermophila</i></a>; two oomycetes pathogens of the model plant <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>, <a href="http://protists.ensembl.org/Hyaloperonospora_arabidopsidis/Info/Index/"><i>Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis</i></a> and <a href="http://protists.ensembl.org/Albugo_laibachii/Info/Index/"><i>Albugo laibachii</i></a>; and <a href="http://protists.ensembl.org/Entamoeba_histolytica/Info/Index/"><i>Entamoeba histolytic</i></a>, a parasitic protozoan that infects primates, including humans.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">* The addition of tomato (<a href="http://plants.ensembl.org/Solanum_lycopersicum/Info/Index"><i>Solanum lycopersicum</i></a>), foxtail millet (<a href="http://plants.ensembl.org/Setaria_italica/Info/Index/"><i>Setaria italica</i></a>), and a disease resistant rice (<a href="http://plants.ensembl.org/Oryza_brachyantha/Info/Index/"><i>Oryza brachyantha</i></a>) to Ensembl Plants. Tomato has now been added to the pan-taxonomic comparative analysis, and synteny data is available for the Oryza genomes. Two new variation datasets covering the <a href="http://plants.ensembl.org/Zea_mays/Info/Index/">Maize</a> HapMap 2 project and African rice (<a href="http://plants.ensembl.org/Oryza_glaberrima/Info/Index/"><i>Oryza glaberrima</i></a>) are now available.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">* Two new species, Monarch butterly (<a href="http://test.metazoa.ensembl.org/Danaus_plexippus/Info/Index"><i>Danaus plexippus</i></a>) and the Postman butterfly (<a href="http://metazoa.ensembl.org/Heliconius_melpomene/Info/Index"><i>Heliconius melpomene</i></a>), have been added to Ensembl Metazoa. Updated gene sets are now available for <a href="http://metazoa.ensembl.org/Aedes_aegypti/Info/Index"><i>Aedes aegypti</i></a>, <a href="http://metazoa.ensembl.org/Culex_quinquefasciatus/Info/Index"><i>Culex quinquefasciatus</i></a>, <a href="http://metazoa.ensembl.org/Ixodes_scapularis/Info/Index"><i>Ixodes scapularis</i></a> and <a href="http://metazoa.ensembl.org/Caenorhabditis_elegans/Info/Index"><i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i></a>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">The underlying genome assembly for </span><a href="http://metazoa.ensembl.org/Caenorhabditis_briggsae/Info/Index"><i>Caenorhabditis briggsae</i></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">has been updated, and a new gene set is provided</span>. Whole genome DNA alignments (LASTZ and translated BLAT) have been prepared between <i>C. elegans</i> and the six other nematodes.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">* Two new species in Ensembl Fungi: <a href="http://fungi.ensembl.org/Sclerotinia_sclerotiorum/Info/Index/"><i>Sclerotinia sclerotorium</i></a> and <a href="http://fungi.ensembl.org/Botryotinia_fuckeliana/Info/Index/"><i>Botryotinia fuckeliana</i></a>. Projection of manual GO (<a href="http://www.geneontology.org/">Gene Ontology</a>) annotation from <i>S. pombe</i> and <i>S. cerevisiae</i> to other species based on protein homology is now available.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">* Software migration to Ensembl 67</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">The Ensembl Genomes Team</div></body></html>