Ensembl Human What's New v15.33.1 (2 July 2003)

	Ensembl: Latest Developments
	New data in v15.33.1    NCBI 33 Ensembl Human release 15.33.1 is built around the NCBI 33 assembly. This is the first 'essentially complete' assembly of the human genome and covers about 99 percent of the euchromatic sequence with less than 400 gaps (average <100 Kb). The average size of contiguous sequence is now over 27Mb, which is more than 300 times longer than in the working draft produced in 2000. The ensembl annotation consists of 23,299 protein coding genes (30,035 transcripts) and, for the first time, automatic annotation of 962 pseudogenes. In addition to the new complete assembly, Ensembl Human 15.33.1 contains:   New GO database (May 2003 release)   New EST database   New EST gene predictions   New Compara database of synteny, genepair, and highly-conserved regions   Pseudogenes   New Protein Family data   New Vega manually annotated genes, in synch with Vega.sanger.ac.uk   New SNP data from dbSNP 115 Schema changes in v15  Core   go_xref table added New Features in v15.33.1    New BLAST/SSAHA interface A new interface, along the lines of Martview, has been implemented for this release. The new page provides access to both BLAST and SSAHA, can search against multiple species, and accepts multiple query sequences. [More]    Stable ID archive Ensembl identifiers which are no longer active should now be recognised by web pages such as geneview.    Multiple Protein Alignments The Ensembl protein family database contains alignments for members of all but the largest protein families. These can now be displayed from familyview pages, using the JalView java multiple alignment editor.    URL-based data upload tracks This release sees an implementation of UCSC-style URL-based remote data annotation, allowing custom data tracks to be displayed without the need to set up or configure a DAS server. [More]    Searchable Mail Archive The Ensembl mailing lists are now archived at mailarchive.sanger.ac.uk, with a new search interface.    MartView updates See the EnsMart homepage for details of Mart updates.