Ensembl Human

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About the Human genome

Assembly

This release is based on the NCBI 36 assembly of the human genome [November 2005]. The data consists of a reference assembly of the complete genome plus the Celera WGS and a number of alternative assemblies of individual haplotypic chromosomes or regions.

Full list of assemblies

The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium have published their scientific analysis of the finished human genome.

• Nature 431, 931 - 945 (21 October 2004)
• WT Sanger Institute Press Release

Annotation

The human genome sequence is now considered sufficiently stable that the three major genome browsers have come together to produce a common set of gene IDs for their annotations. This Consensus CDS ID set has been encorporated into the Ensembl database alongside the existing identifiers.

• More information about the CCDS project.

The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project aims to find functional elements in the human genome.

• More information about the ENCODE resources at Ensembl.

What's New in Ensembl 44

Homo sapiens News

• Patch for Ensembl Human database
  Ensembl Homo sapiens has been patched with a few extra transcripts and some new CCDS IDs, and the corresponding xrefs and variation databases have been updated.
• cDNA Updates
  Ensembl human and mouse databases have received their usual cDNA updates.
• Vega updates
  Vega human and mouse have both been updated since the last release of Ensembl. See VEGA for more information.
• Variation updates
  All species with variation data now have a failed_variation table. Also, in species that have duplicate variations (with the same mapping but different IDs), these have been put into the variation_synonym table.

General News

• ncRNAs for Ensembl chordates
  All Ensembl genebuild databases (i.e. excluding the imported invertebrate databases for mosquitoes, fruit fly, worm and yeast) have been updated with new ncRNA data.

More news...

Statistics

* Total number of base pairs = sum of lengths of DNA table

** Reference assembly (Golden path) length = sum of non-redundant top level seq regions