What's New in Release 61

• Genomes

  • EnsemblProtists has 241 genomes

• In release 61, the following genomes were updated with data from VEuPathDB

  • Acanthamoeba castellanii (GCA_000313135.1)
  • Aphanomyces astaci (GCA_000520075.1)
  • Aphanomyces invadans (GCA_000520115.1)
  • Babesia bovis (GCA_000165395.2)
  • Eimeria mitis (GCA_000499745.2)
  • Giardia intestinalis (GCA_000002435.2, previously known as Giardia lamblia)
  • Globisporangium ultimum (GCA_000143045.1)
  • Plasmodium berghei (GCA_900002375.2)
  • Plasmodium falciparum (GCA_000002765.3)
  • Plasmodium knowlesi (GCA_000006355.3)
  • Plasmodium sp. DRC-Itaito (GCA_900257145.2)
  • Plasmodium vivax (GCA_900093555.2)
  • Plasmodium yoelii (GCA_900002385.2)
  • Spironucleus salmonicida (GCA_000497125.2)
  • Toxoplasma gondii (GCA_000006565.2)

• New genomes

  • Globisporangium ultimum var. sporangiiferum BR650 (GCA_000387525.2)

• Other data

  • Updated BioMarts for gene and variation data
  • Updated pan-taxonomic gene trees and homologies
  • Updated annotation of molecular interactions involving protist genes
  • Updated protist gene trees and homologies
  • Updated protein features for all species using InterProScan
  • Updated taxonomic classification of various species to reflect the latest changes from NCBI

Archive sites

• The following archive sites are available to access previous versions of data:
  • Release 59, May 2024 eg59-protists.ensembl.org
  • Release 56, February 2023 eg56-protists.ensembl.org
  • Release 52, December 2021 eg52-protists.ensembl.org
  • Release 49, December 2020 eg49-protists.ensembl.org
  • Release 45, September 2019 eg45-protists.ensembl.org

Ensembl Protists

Ensembl Protists is a browser for protist genomes. A majority of these are taken from the databases of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (the European Nucleotide Archive at the EBI, GenBank at the NCBI, and the DNA Database of Japan); in some cases, the annotation has been taken directly from the websites of the data generators. Data can be visualised through the Ensembl genome browser and accessed programmatically via our Perl and RESTful APIs. Data is also accessible through public MySQL databases and our FTP site containing full data dumps in FASTA, EMBL, GTF, GFF3, JSON and RDF formats.

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