Ensembl 2022
Fiona Cunningham, James E. Allen, Jamie Allen, Jorge Álvarez-Jarreta, M Ridwan Amode, Irina M. Armean, Olanrewaju Austine-Orimoloye, Andrey G Azov, If Barnes, Ruth Bennett, Andrew Berry, Jyothish Bhai, Alexandra Bignell, Konstantinos Billis, Sanjay Boddu, Lucy Brooks, Mehrnaz Charkhchi, Carla Cummins, Luca Da Rin Fioretto, Claire Davidson, Kamalkumar Dodiya, Sarah Donaldson, Bilal El Houdaigui, Tamara El Naboulsi, Reham Fatima, Carlos García Girón, Thiago A. L. Genez, Jose Gonzalez Martinez, Cristina Guijarro-Clarke, Arthur W. Gymer, Matthew P. Hardy, Zoe Hollis, Thibaut Hourlier, Toby Hunt, Thomas Juettemann, Vinay Kaikala, Mike Kay, Ilias Lavidas, Anh Tuấn Lê, Diana Lemos, José Carlos Marugán, Shamika Mohanan, Aleena Mushtaq, Marc Naven, Denye Ogeh, Anne Parker, Andrew Parton, Malcolm Perry, Ivana Piližota, Irina Prosovetskaia, Manoj Pandian Sakthivel, Ahamed Imran Abdul Salam, Bianca M. Schmitt, Helen Schuilenburg, Dan Sheppard, José G Pérez-Silva, William Stark, Emily Steed, Kyösti Sutinen, Ranjit Sukumaran, Dulika Sumathipala, Marie‐Marthe Suner, Michał Szpak, Anja Thormann, Francesca Floriana Tricomi, David Urbina-Gómez, Andres Veidenberg, Thomas Walsh, Brandon Walts, Natalie L Willhoft, Andrea Winterbottom, Elizabeth Wass, Marc Chakiachvili, Bethany Flint, Adam Frankish, Stefano Giorgetti, Leanne Haggerty, Sarah Hunt, Garth R IIsley, Jane Loveland, Fergal J. Martin, Benjamin Moore, Jonathan M. Mudge, Matthieu Muffato, Emily Perry, Magali Ruffier, John Tate, David Thybert, Stephen J. Trevanion, Sarah Dyer, Peter W. Harrison, Kevin Howe, Andrew Yates, Daniel R. Zerbino, Paul Flicek
Abstract
Ensembl (https://www.ensembl.org) is unique in its flexible infrastructure for access to genomic data and annotation. It has been designed to efficiently deliver annotation at scale for all eukaryotic life, and it also provides deep comprehensive annotation for key species. Genomes representing a greater diversity of species are increasingly being sequenced. In response, we have focussed our recent efforts on expediting the annotation of new assemblies. Here, we report the release of the greatest annual number of newly annotated genomes in the history of Ensembl via our dedicated Ensembl Rapid Release platform (http://rapid.ensembl.org). We have also developed a new method to generate comparative analyses at scale for these assemblies and, for the first time, we have annotated non-vertebrate eukaryotes. Meanwhile, we continually improve, extend and update the annotation for our high-value reference vertebrate genomes and report the details here. We have a range of specific software tools for specific tasks, such as the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) and the newly developed interface for the Variant Recoder. All Ensembl data, software and tools are freely available for download and are accessible programmatically.