News and Updates Cattle Genome Coordinator Reports and Newsletters - News - Bovine reference assembly ARS-UCD1.2 (Apr. 18, 2018) Latest genome annotation available (May 15, 2014) Annotation is on UMD3.1 assembly (Feb. 9, 2010) The Cow Hit the News (Apr. 24, 2009) Cattle Genome News Release (Apr. 24, 2009)