Ensembl Human

Karyotype

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About the Human genome

Assembly

This release is based on the NCBI 36 assembly of the human genome [November 2005]. The data consists of a reference assembly of the complete genome plus the Celera WGS and a number of alternative assemblies of individual haplotypic chromosomes or regions.

Full list of assemblies

The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium have published their scientific analysis of the finished human genome.

• Nature 431, 931 - 945 (21 October 2004)
• WT Sanger Institute Press Release

Annotation

The human genome sequence is now considered sufficiently stable that the three major genome browsers have come together to produce a common set of gene IDs for their annotations. This Consensus CDS ID set has been encorporated into the Ensembl database alongside the existing identifiers.

• More information about the CCDS project.

The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project aims to find functional elements in the human genome.

• More information about the ENCODE resources at Ensembl.

What's New in Ensembl 43

Homo sapiens News

• cDNA Updates
  Ensembl Human and Mouse have received their regular cDNA updates
• Updates to Human databases
  The Ensembl human gene set has been patched to remove some incorrect gene structures and to add a set of Immunoglobulin/T-cell receptor gene segments, inferred from the alignment of segment sequences in the IMGT database..
  Read more...
• Human variation
  Ensembl Human has a new variation database that includes SNPs called from Celera reads, changed alleles/genotypes and updates to match the new patched gene set.
• Xref updates
  Xrefs have been re-run for Human, Rat and Mouse.
• Affy mapping
  Xrefs have been added for Affymetrix data mapped to the Cow, Yeast, Human and Zebrafish genomes.

More news...

Statistics

* Total number of base pairs = sum of lengths of DNA table

** Reference assembly (Golden path) length = sum of non-redundant top level seq regions