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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Dear All,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>We are pleased to announce that the latest Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes updates have been released:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/" title="http://www.ensembl.org/"><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>http://www.ensembl.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://ensemblgenomes.org/" title="http://ensemblgenomes.org/"><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>http://ensemblgenomes.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Highlights of this release include:</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Update to human GENCODE 35</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>New population frequency data from the Gambian Genome Variation Project</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>39 new genomes: Fourteen plants, ten birds, eight mammals, four fish, one reptile, one amphibian and one crustacean</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>New sheep (<i>Ovis aries</i>) reference genome and goat (<i>Capra hircus</i>) breed</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>New barley (<i>Hordeum vulgare</i>) and five wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i>) cultivars</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>New sunflower (<i>Helianthus annuus</i>) variation data</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Chromosome specific KASP markers for wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i>)</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The release blog post with all news can be viewed here:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ensembl.info/2020/08/20/ensembl-101-has-been-released/">http://www.ensembl.info/2020/08/20/ensembl-101-has-been-released/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>For the latest news from the Ensembl project visit our blog at:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ensembl.info/"><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>http://www.ensembl.info</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Best wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Michal</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>On behalf of the Ensembl team</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Michał Szpak, Ph.D.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ensembl Outreach Officer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>European Molecular Biology Laboratory </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Wellcome Genome Campus</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>