<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<br><br>We are delighted to announce that the latest update of Ensembl Genomes has been released.<div><br><div><b>Highlights</b><br><div><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Updated names and descriptions for <i>Strigamia maritima</i> genes<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• 777 new bacterial genomes (Ensembl Bacteria now contains 21,767genomes)<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Assemblies 2.40 and 2.50 of tomato available in Assembly Converter (to transfer genomic coordinates between assemblies)<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• New variation data for the plant pathogens <i>Verticillium dahliae</i> (JR2 strain) and <i>Zymoseptoria tritici</i><br></div><div><br></div><b>Genome comparisons for Triticeae and related species</b><br><br>Whole genome alignments between seven pairs of Triticeae genomes, including the bread wheat A, B and D component genomes, <i>Triticum urartu</i> (the A genome progenitor), <i>Aegilops tauschii</i> (the D genome progenitor), and barley are now available. The alignments were obtained using ATAC and the statistics on genome and coding exon coverages can be found on our website.<br><br><b>MAF files on our FTP sites</b><br><br>In response to several requests from our users we now provide the pairwise alignments as MAF files. These can be found on the FTP download site of all Ensembl Genomes divisions.<br><br><b>Other news</b><br><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Fungi and Protists: Updated PHIbase annotation and protein domain information based on InterProScan<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Latest assemblies and gene sets for <i>Medicago truncatula</i> and <i>Oryza meridionalis</i><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• New RNASeq data in barley, <i>Oryza sp</i> and <i>Leersia perrieri</i><br></div><div><br></div>A complete list of both new and updated date can be found on our website.<br><br>Any questions or comments? Email us at <a href="mailto:helpdesk@ensemblgenomes.org">helpdesk@ensemblgenomes.org</a> <br><br>The Ensembl Genomes team</div></div></div></body></html>