Ensembl Human

Karyotype

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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 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 38

Homo sapiens News

• New Human assembly and genebuild
  Ensembl Human is now based on the NCBI 36 assembly, released in November 2005.
  Read more...
• cDNA Updates
  The Ensembl Human and Mouse cDNA database have received their regular updates.
• Compara whole genome alignments
  

  The following updates have been made to ensembl_compara.
  Read more...

• Updates to variation displays
  

  The following pages have new features.
  Read more...

• New variation data
  Ensembl Human and Mouse have new variation databases. Human has the SNPs from dbSNP125 mapped to the new assembly, whilst in Mouse, strain polymorphism data from Celera reads are now viewable in Mart.

More news...

Statistics

*See the MapView help page for more information on gene counts