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Data updates

GRCh38 Human Annotation

Vega is now on the GRCh38 human assembly. Whilst the overall numbers of genes on the reference assembly is virtually unchanged, many, around 5000, have been reannotated. Approx 1500 stable IDs have been retired.

Mouse Annotation updated

This release of Vega mouse has about 4200 new and over 1000 updated loci. There are around 800 new protein coding genes and large increases in the numbers of lncRNAs and pseudogenes. lncRNAs are now deposited in the European Nucelotide Archive.