Ensembl Release 50 Mirror from BGI-SZ 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

Since release 38 (April 2006) the gene annotation presented has been a combined Ensembl-Havana geneset, which incorporates more than 18,000 full-length protein-coding transcripts annotated by the Havana team with the Ensembl automatic gene build. The human genome sequence is now considered sufficiently stable that since 2004 the major genome browsers have come together to produce a common set of identifiers where CDS annotations of transcripts can be agreed and these identifiers are also shown.

• 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 50

Homo sapiens News

• Human core updates
  Ensembl Human includes a new gene set, using ditags to build the UTRs. It also contains an improved merge between Ensembl-predicted genes and the latest Havana manually-annotated gene set. More genes have been removed from the Alpheus set.
• Regulatory build
  The regulatory build on human has been updated, in line with the new genebuild.
• New variation databases
  Ensembl 50 includes a new orangutan variation database, with SNPs called by Ensembl using ssaha2/pileup from reference assembly reads, plus remapping of SNPs to the new assemblies for tetraodon and cow.
  Read more...
• Change to gene and transcript naming
  

  Genes and transcripts are assigned names using a new procedure.
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• Syntenies
  New syntenies have been calculated for human vs orangutan and human vs cow.

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