Dear all, The new Ensembl marts for release 74 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 74 Updated human assembly to GRCh37.p13, mouse assembly to GRCm38.p2 and armadillo assembly to Dasnov3.0. Added new species cave fish (Astyanax mexicanus), sheep (Ovis aries) and spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) Added a new "Phenotype" filter section and new phenotype attributes in the GENE section Replacement of the "possible orthologs" filter and attribute sections by new "Orthology confidence" in the orthologs attribute section and "Paralogy confidence" in the paralogs section. Definition for these two attributes can be found at the following location: http: //www.ensembl.org/info/genome/compara/homology_method.html#homology_ty pes Added "Phase", "cDNA coding start", "cDNA coding end", "Genomic coding start" and "Genomic coding end" in the sequence attribute section Ensembl Variation 74 Updated the human somatic variation database to COSMIC 67 data Added a new "UCSC ID" and "Digital Object Identifier" attribute in the Variation citation section Added Phenotype filters and attributes in the Human structural variation and Human structural variation somatic datasets. Added new variation species sheep (Ovis aries) A complete list of the changes in release 74 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]]