Dear all,

The new Ensembl marts for release 74 are live on www.ensembl.org.
You can change your host to access our most recent data:
mart <- useMart(biomart="ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL", host="www.ensembl.org", path="/biomart/martservice")

Ensembl Genes 74
	Updated human assembly to GRCh37.p13, mouse assembly to GRCm38.p2 and armadillo assembly to Dasnov3.0.
	Added new species cave fish (Astyanax mexicanus), sheep (Ovis aries) and spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus)
	Added a new "Phenotype" filter section and new phenotype attributes in the GENE section
	Replacement of the "possible orthologs" filter and attribute sections by new "Orthology confidence" in the orthologs attribute section and "Paralogy confidence" in the paralogs section. Definition for these two attributes can be found at the following location: http://www.ensembl.org/info/genome/compara/homology_method.html#homology_types
	Added "Phase", "cDNA coding start", "cDNA coding end", "Genomic coding start" and "Genomic coding end" in the sequence attribute section

Ensembl Variation 74
	Updated the human somatic variation database to COSMIC 67 data
	Added a new "UCSC ID" and "Digital Object Identifier" attribute in the Variation citation section
	Added Phenotype filters and attributes in the Human structural variation and Human structural variation somatic datasets.
	Added new variation species sheep (Ovis aries)

A complete list of the changes in release 74 can be found at http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/news.html

Best Regards,
Thomas 
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Thomas Maurel
Bioinformatician - Ensembl Production Team
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom


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