We are pleased to announce that the latest Ensembl update (e!83) has
been released:

http://www.ensembl.org/

If you are using biomaRt, you can change your host to access our most recent data (With R 2.2 and Bioconductor version 3.1):

ensembl_mart_83 <- useEnsembl(biomart=“ensembl")

• Ensembl Genes 83
  • Retirement of the "flagged variants" (http://www.ensembl.org/Help/Glossary?id=533)
  • Renamed "Phase" attribute to "start phase" and added new "end phase" attribute to structure and sequence sections.
  • Human assembly updated from GRCh38.p3 to GRCh38.p5
• Ensembl Variation 83
  • Retirement of the genotype and strain data. This will result in the removal of the "Strain Variants", "Strain - Other Variants (Indels, Multiple Nucleotide Polymorphisms)" and "Compare Strain genotypes" attribute sections.
  • Retirement of the "flagged variants" (http://www.ensembl.org/Help/Glossary?id=533)
  • Human assembly updated from GRCh38.p3 to GRCh38.p5
• Ensembl Regulation 83
• Vega 63
  • Renamed "Phase" attribute to "start phase" and added new "end phase" attribute to structure and sequence sections.
  • Human assembly updated from GRCh38.p3 to GRCh38.p5

A complete list of the changes in release 83 can be found at
http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/news.html

For the latest news from the Ensembl project visit our blog at
http://www.ensembl.info

The release 83 blog post can be viewed here:
http://www.ensembl.info/blog/2015/12/08/ensembl-83-has-been-released/

The e83 webinar is planned for Wednesday 16th Dec at 16:00 GMT, please
register using the following URL. Registration is free.
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events/2015/ensembl-release-83-webinar

Best regards,
Amonida
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Amonida Zadissa, PhD
Ensembl Production
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD
UK