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What's new in Release 36b (Mar 2013)
- New functionality
- Triticum aestivumi (bread wheat)
- Updated genomes
- Updated 'unlocalized' chromosomes for Hordeum vulgare (barley) using arm sorted survey sequences.
- Updated stable identifiers for Vitis vinifera (grape).
- Added gene descriptions for Musa acuminata (banana).
- Updated selenocysteine in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (green alga) protein translations.
- New data
- Added new variation data for Hordeum vulgare (barley) from four cultivars: Barke, Bowman, Igri, Haruna Nijo, and a wild barley (H. spontaneum).
- Added new variation data for Brachypodium sylvaticum (barley) from three populations: Corvallis, Oregon, Spain and Greece, mapped to Brachypodium distachyon genome (Source: Jaiswal lab).
- Added new alignments to Brachypodium sylvaticum transcriptomics datasets for Brachypodium distachyon.
- Added new alignments to several EST and transcriptomics datasets for Triticum aestivum (wheat) provided in the syntenic context of Brachypodium.
- Added new alignments to several EST and transcriptomics datasets for Solanum tuberosum (potato).
- Added new alignments to several EST and transcriptomics datasets for Oryza barthii (WGS), O. granulata (chr3s), O. longistaminata (chr3s), and Leersia perrieri (chr3s).
- Added new whole-genome alignments against Oryza sativa Japonica for Oryza barthii (WGS), O. granulata (chr3s), O. longistaminata (chr3s), and Leersia perrieri (chr3s).
- Added newly built Oryza phylogenetic gene trees including genes from Oryza barthii (WGS), O. granulata (chr3s), O. longistaminata (chr3s), and Leersia perrieri (chr3s).
- Added new DNA-derived synteny data between Solanum tuberosum (potato) and S. lycopersicum (tomato).
- Updated data
- Updated RepeatMasker repeats for Solanum tuberosum (potato).
- Updated BioMarts
- Updated features
- Updated genome browser, database schema and API to Ensembl version 70
No news is currently available for release 70.
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