Dear all, The new Ensembl marts for release 73 are live on www.ensembl.org. You can change your host to access our most recent data: mart <- useMart(biomart="ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL", host="www.ensembl.org", path="/biomart/martservice") Ensembl Genes 73 Updated Human assembly to GRCh37.p12 Added new species Duck (Anas platyrhynchos) and Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) Added new "QTL chromosome name" and "QTL region" filters in the region section for Rat, Cow and Pig. Added "EntrezGene transcript name" in the filter and attribute sections for several species Ensembl Variation 73 Added new "QTL chromosome name" and "QTL region" filters in the region section for Rat, Cow and Pig. Updated the human somatic variation database to COSMIC 65 data Added a new "year" attribute in the Variation citation section Removed "phenotype name" from the attribute section A complete list of the changes in release 73 can be found at http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/news.html Best Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Maurel Bioinformatician - Ensembl Production Team European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD United Kingdom [[alternative HTML version deleted]]