A ten-nation consortium has reported the first high-quality reference genome sequence of Hordeum vulgare (barley). The barley genome was sequenced and assembled using an array of state-of- the-art methods, taking ten years. For the first time, scientists can now locate all genes precisely in the genome and analyze complex gene families that play a key role in malting and resilience.
We have upgraded our representation of genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana, incorporating the full data set from the 1001 Genomes Project, covering more than 10 million variant loci across 1,135 samples (Cell 2016).
A total of 80,829 variation markers from the iSelect 90k array and 13.8 million Inter-Homoeologous Variants (IHVs) have been added to the new genome assembly of Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring produced by the Earlham Institute.
This data is viewable alongside the existing Axiom 35k and 820k SNP marker sets provided by CerealsDB and located on the new assembly and the publicly available EMS mutant lines from tetraploid (cv. Kronos) and hexaploid (cv. Cadenza) TILLING populations (read more).
Alongside release 32 we have launched a new archive site, where we will keep selected previous releases of Ensembl Plants publicly available. The first release available on the archive site is release 31, and includes the previous assemblies for wheat and maize.
You can search the Track Hub Registry to find more than 900 public RNA-Seq studies aligned to plants (read more) on the Ensembl Genomes site.
This work is a joint project between EnsemblGenomes at the European Bioinformatics Institute and the group of Doreen Ware at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who have developed the Gramene database, a resource for plant comparative genomics based on Ensembl technology. A common set of databases are available through EnsemblGenomes and Gramene, and the two groups are collaborating on the integration of content, quality control and the development of new features.
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