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Our plan is to release major updates to the platform (e.g., new visualisations and new analyses) approximately every 6 months. However, new species and updates to existing analyses will be done in incremental updates. Release 1.1 will have several new species, as well as improved orthology predictions and gene trees. The additional genomes planned for Release 1.1 are:

• Amyelois transitella v1
• Bicyclus anynana v1.0
• Danaus plexippus v3
• Operophtera brumata v1
• Papilio polytes Ppol_1.0 (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Papilio xuthus Pxut_1.0 (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Papilio machaon Pap_ma_1.0 (BGI)
• Papilio xuthus Pap_xu_1.0 (BGI)
• Spodoptera frugiperda v2

Please get in touch at help@lepbase.org if you are sequencing a lepidopteran genome and would like to see it hosted on lepbase.org, or if you would like to see additional features implemented. Our goal is to provide a useful home for moth and butterfly genomes with consistent data access interfaces and cross-species analyses.

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Lepbase 1.0 went live on October 1, 2015. Several new genomes and features were added to ensembl.lepbase.org, bringing the total number of lepidopteran genomes up to 30, a nice round number.

The new genomes with gene models are:

• Chilo suppressalis CsuOGS1.0
• Heliconius melpomene Hmel2
• Lerema accius v1.1
• Manduca sexta Msex_1.0
• Papillio glaucus v1.1
• Plodia interpunctella v1

18 Heliconiine DISCOVAR assemblies by the Heliconius Genome Consortium in collaboration with David Jaffe were also added to Lepbase but these are assemblies without gene models and have not yet been published or verified. Please use blast.lepbase.org to search for your region of interest, and webapollo.lepbase.org to contribute any manual annotations. Please contact James Mallet before using any data from these assemblies in a publication.

• Agraulis vanillae helico2
• Eueides tales helico2
• Heliconius besckei helico2
• Heliconius burneyi helico2
• Heliconius cydno helico2
• Heliconius demeter helico2
• Heliconius elevatus helico2
• Heliconius erato helico2
• Heliconius erato himera helico2
• Heliconius hecale helico1
• Heliconius himera helico1
• Heliconius melpomene helico2
• Heliconius numata helico2
• Heliconius pardalinus helico2
• Heliconius telesiphe helico2
• Heliconius timareta helico2
• Laparus doris helico2
• Neruda aoede helico2

New features

Since Lepbase Ensembl Release 0.5 in February 2015, we have added several new features to the site:

1. a standalone blast server using SequenceServer
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2. an autocomplete search box which makes it easier to search for terms even if you don’t know the exact term or its spelling
3. a genome assembly ‘badge’ for visualising genome statistics for each species
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4. Gene trees made using OrthoFinder for determining homologs, RAxML for building maximum likelihood phylogenetic trees, and TreeFix for species tree reconciliation
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5. a download page with scaffold fasta, protein fasta, CDS fasta and annotation GFF files for each species
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6. WebApollo instances for each species at webapollo.lepbase.org to enable manual community-based annotation of these genomes.
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Coming soon

• Query driven data downloads
• RFAM annotations
• Variations
• Whole genome alignments

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The LepBase team are pleased to announce the first public beta release of our Lepidoptera-specific Ensembl genome browser at ensembl.lepbase.org

This initial release builds upon the Lepidopteran content already available at metazoa.ensembl.org . While some Lepidoptera are included in Ensembl Metazoa, these species are the sole focus of the LepBase Ensembl instance. At LepBase we hope that this taxon-oriented approach will enable us to deliver comparative genomics resources to meet the specific needs of the Lepidoptera research community.

In this release (version 0.5), we have added the published genome sequence, gene models, and annotations for the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (currently not yet available in Ensembl Metazoa). We have also added important content to species already present in Ensembl Metazoa, in particular the NCBI RefSeq gene models for the silkworm, Bombyx mori, and linked annotation terms to gene descriptions to improve text searches for genes of interest.

As a beta release there are some inevitable rough edges and missing features. As we work towards version 1 we are planning to include variation information and update the comparative analyses to offer Lepidopteran-specific orthologues and gene trees.

We want LepBase to be a genuinely useful resource for the Lepidoptera research community so we would welcome any feedback and suggestions for features/content/tools/analyses that would be useful. We are particularly keen to add more genomic content so if you have further sequences, assemblies or annotations that you would like to see included, please get in touch at help@lepbase.org and we can work with you to add them to ensembl.lepbase.org.