v169-preview - 9 Oct. 2007    (Pairings)

Code changes:

• Added mods to detect whether any table matching a pattern with SQL wildcard exists, enhanced tableExists in joiner.c to pay attention to splitPrefix. (Angie)
• Added genericNameValue.as to cover simple name,value tables to fix problem with buildTableDescriptions.pl picking up the incorrect description. (Angie)
• Added recognition of chainLink fields to hFindBed12FieldsAndBinDb so featureBits can find chromField and the TB recoginizes it as positional. (Angie)
• Added Zv7_ to the list of acceptable scaffold prefixes in hgTracks.c. (Bob)
• Ongoing work on hgHeatmap. (Jing, Zack)
• Removed spurious schema link from super-track UI pages that occurs when the first member track is a table, not a composite. (Kate)

Data changes:

• Updated hg18/wgRna track. (Fan)
• Added mm9 miRNA track. (Fan)
• Added NIMH Bipolar built-in for Genome Graphs. (Galt)
• Added hg18 targetScanS track, updated SGP genes, added orangutan and ponAbe2 alignements. (Hiram)
• Added mm8, rn4 Affy Exon probe and transcript tracks. (Hiram)
• Ongoing work on mm9 Conservation track, reloaded allenBrain data. (Hiram)
• Added CONTRAST gene predictions to hg18, mm8, rn4, dm3, danRer4. (Mark)
• Updated danRer5 Vega Genes/Pseudogenes tracks to Vega version 28. (Rachel)
• Added indel-based conservation track for hg18, mm5, canFam1. (Rachel)