Backport of PR #80
Created by: tgrego
This is a copy of https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-io/pull/80 based against release/96
Will replace https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-io/pull/78
Created by: tgrego
This is a copy of https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-io/pull/80 based against release/96
Will replace https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-io/pull/78