Ensembl Mosquito What's New v9.1.1 (18 November 2002)

	Ensembl: Latest Developments
	This release of Ensembl is built upon an overhauled API and schema. This has been undertaken to remove unused old code from the codebase and to improve the design to gain more extensibility and maintainability. Along with the code changes, the Ensembl schema has been updated to improve consistency. Even without a schema diagram its now quite easy to derive foreign key relationships from the column names (identical column names refer to the same thing and can usually be joined). The majority of data is unchanged in this release, it has merely been imported into the new schema. The major exception is SNP data which now uses dbSNP 107. For more details of the changes to the schema and code, please see the change documentation. Updated data in v9.1.1    SNPs The SNP data has been updated to use dbSNP 107. Changes/new features in v9.1.1    Sequence Track One of the benefits of the improved API is the ability to draw accurately down to the basepair level. We have therefore implemented the much-requested feature of sequence display on ContigView. This is currently only available at zoom levels below 200 bpp, but we intend to develop more sequence-level features in future releases.    Amino Acid Track Along with the new sequence track is a track showing codon translations in all three reading frames. This ContigView display is available at zooms below 500 bp.    Variation features Variation features (e.g. SNPs and InDels) are now shown in greater detail on both SNPView and ContigView; they are colour-coded by type and display the ambiguity code/indel length.    Repeat types Repeat features can now be selectively displayed on ContigView by their type. To that end, a new menu ("Repeats") has been added to the contigview menu bar.