Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the new Ensembl marts for release 76 are now 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") If you are not able to move to the new human assembly GRCh38, our new archive website provide access to the previous annotations: mart <- useMart(biomart="ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL", host="grch37.ensembl.org", path="/biomart/martservice") Ensembl Genes 76 Updated human assembly to GRCh38 Retirement of the human expression data (eGenetics/SANBI EST and GNF/Atlas) and the zebrafish expression data (ZFIN). This will result in the removal of the "EXPRESSION" filter and attribute sections. Retirement of the transcript splicing events data computed by the pipeline developed as part of the ASTD project. These data will be retired for human (Homo sapiens), mouse (Mus musculus), rat (Rattus norvegicus), zebrafish (Danio rerio), c.elegans (Caenorhabitis elegans) and fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster). This will result in the removal of the "Transcript event" filter and attribute sections. Added new species Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) and Olive baboon (Papio anubis) Added new Gene and Transcript version attributes for all the species Added new Transcription Start Site (TSS) attribute in the structure and sequence sections for all the species. Added "QTL chromosome name" and "QTL region" filters for sheep and chicken Added marker start and end filters for sheep Ensembl Variation 76 Updated human assembly to GRCh38 Added "QTL chromosome name" and "QTL region" filters for sheep and chicken A complete list of the changes in release 76 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]]