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What's New in Release 32

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Ensembl Genomes REST ServiceTo access Ensembl Genomes data from any programming language, try our REST service. For full documentation including examples from a wide range of languages, visit http://rest.ensemblgenomes.org

Release 32 of Ensembl Bacteria has been loaded from EMBL-Bank release 127 into 173 multispecies Ensembl v84 databases. The current dataset contains 41,610 genomes (41,198 bacteria and 412 archaea) from 6,928 species containing 145,788,345 protein coding genes loaded from 4,429,584 INSDC entries. This release includes 2269 new genomes, 15 genomes with updated assemblies, 212 genomes with updated annotation, 906 genomes where the assigned name has changed, and 243 genomes removed since the last release.

Future Releases

Release 33 of Ensembl Genomes is scheduled for 4th October 2016. For more details, see the release intentions.

Ensembl Bacteria

Over 30,000 genome sequences from bacteria and archaea have been annotated and deposited in the public archives of the members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. This site provides access to complete, annotated genomes from bacteria and archaea (present in the European Nucleotide Archive) through the Ensembl graphical user interface (genome browser). More details about the integration are provided here

Programmatic access is available through the Ensembl Perl and REST-ful APIs and through publicly accessible mysql databases, along with full data dumps (including DNA sequence and protein sequence in FASTA format, annotations in GTF format, and mysql dump files). Due to the large number of these databases, there is some modification to the APIs, and database and FTP site structure, compared to that used for other branches of the taxonomy (e.g. the storage of many genomes in one database; the provision of lookup services to identify genomes by INSDC identifiers, taxonomy identifiers, or partial names. Full details are available here.

BioMart access is not available, but we are working on providing new, more powerful data mining tools to allow users to exploit these genomes. A selection of over 100 key bacterial genomes has been included in the pan-taxonomic Compara, and genes from all genomes are classified into families using HAMAP and PANTHER (more details)

Ensembl Bacteria has been developed with the support of the Microme project, a resource for bacterial metabolism.

Ensembl Genomes is developed by EMBL-EBI and is powered by the Ensembl software system for the analysis and visualisation of genomic data. For details of our funding please click here.