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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Ensembl team,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would you please share ETA for mRatBN7.2-based rat models in Ensembl? We are eagerly waiting for it to resolve well-known annotation problems with rat genes and we hope that this is one of your top priorities for 2021. Are there some coordination
with GRC and NCBI that needs to happen?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for any update,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alexei<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Alexei A Podtelezhnikov, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Principal Scientist<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Genetics & Pharmacogenomics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Merck & Co., Inc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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