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News for Vega Release 57

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Data updates

Human Annotation Updated

This release of human Vega is primarily a tidying up of the annotation on GRCh38 with about 500 loci updated and an additional 200 added. Almost all of this is on the Reference assembly

Rat Annotation Updated

This release of rat Vega represents a large increase in the number of annotated loci, from about 100 to over 1150. These annotations will be published as part of a merged gene set in Ensembl release 77

Pig Annotation Updated

This release of pig has full updates to the annotation on the 'WTSI' assemblies of the X and Y allosomes. The 'Havana update' track can be used to see updates to annotation on the Sscrofa10.2 chromosome made since the original datafreeze was taken in 2012

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BLAST updated (all species)

This release of VEGA has an updated inteface and uses NCBI BLAST+ instead of WU BLAST