Ensembl Rapid Release is a new site designed to make our data available more quickly. Release of data occurs on a two-week cycle, meaning we can make our gene sets available with minimal delay once the annotation is complete. For each species we provide a gene set along with additional features such as protein feature annotation and BLAST functionality.

It is important to note that Ensembl Rapid Release is by nature not as fully featured as a typical data release on www.ensembl.org. Currently we do not provide data archiving or programmatic access. We are gradually rolling out comparative analyses across all species, and are working on adding more functionality over the coming months to further improve usability.

More details about Ensembl Rapid Release and the current and planned features.