Dear all

The new Ensembl marts for release 99 are now live on www.ensembl.org. If you are using biomaRt, you can change your host to access our most recent data:

ensemblmart99 <- useEnsembl(biomart=“ensembl")

Important: Please note that we had to rename some species to accommodate new species name format. Please find the full list below or on our FTP site, for vertebrates: http://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-99/release99biomart_changes.txt

For Vertebrates:

old BiomaRt species name        New BiomaRt species name
m129s1svimj                     mm129s1svimj
maj                             mmaj
makrj                           mmakrj
mbalbcj                         mmbalbcj
mc3hhej                         mmc3hhej
mc57bl6nj                       mmc57bl6nj
mcasteij                        mmcasteij
mcbaj                           mmcbaj
mdba2j                          mmdba2j
mfvbnj                          mmfvbnj
mlpj                            mmlpj
mnodshiltj                      mmnodshiltj
mnzohlltj                       mmnzohlltj
mpwkphj                         mmpwkphj
mwsbeij                         mmwsbeij