[ensembl-announce] Ensembl release 68 is out!

From: Thomas Maurel

The latest Ensembl update (e!68) has been released : http://www.ensembl.org/

Here are some highlights:

Human: The patches for the human genome assembly have been updated to GRCh37.p8, Human somatic variants from COSMIC have been updated to release 59. Human structural variation has been updated and new studies have been added. 

New genomes: The assembly for Mouse has been updated to GRCm38 and Dog has been updated to CanFam3.1.

New species:  Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis).

Other news: We have moved to using Sequence Ontology terms to describe consequences in Ensembl Variation and starting with this release we will be incrementally refreshing the design of the Ensembl web template.

A complete list of the changes in release 68 can be found at http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/news.html

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

The release blog post can be viewed here : http://www.ensembl.info/blog/2012/07/12/ensembl-68-has-been-released/

Best regards,

Thomas Maurel

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Thomas Maurel
Bioinformatician - Ensembl Production Team
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton
Cambridge - CB10 1SD - UK

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Dreamt of creating your Ensembl virtual Machine?

Now you can.
Over at their blog, they posted instructions on how to obtain a virtualbox image which you can use on any platform that virtualbox can be installed on (Win, Mac, Linux)

there are conversion tools to change virtualbox to vmware or even AMI
Should be seeing customised ensembl instances appearing more often


Will be giving this a whirl tomorrow! *rubs hands in glee*


http://asia.ensembl.org/info/data/virtual_machine.html

Ensembl Virtual Machine

Ensembl has available for download a virtual machine pre-packaged and pre-configured the latest ensembl-api. It is a quick and simple way to get started with Ensembl.

Overview of the process

The process is described in detail in the remainder of this document, with the main steps summarised as follows.

1. Obtain VirtualBox
2. Download and import the virtual machine
3. Create shared folders
4. Start and verify the Ensembl installation

UPDATE: the image uses the 64bit version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It runs pretty fast given one core and 4 Gb ram.