v178-preview - 11 Mar. 2008    (Pairings)

Code changes:

• Added wigBedToStep.c to utils -- wiggle-converting utility. (Andy)
• Fixed up snp125Ui, snp125 filtering in hgTracks/variation.c. (Angie)
• Added mods to help detect table corruption and failover gracefully. (Angie)
• Ongoing work on GSID. (Fan)
• Updated hgGene/crd.c to retrieve CTD data from hgFixed DB instead of ctd DB. (Fan)
• Updated hgGene/gad.c so that when a user clicks to expand the list, it presents the GAD section directly. (Fan)
• Ongoing work on ENCODE submission pipeline. (Galt, Kate)
• Ongoing work on Ensembl genes automation. (Hiram)
• Updated some browser build automation utils. (Hiram)
• Ongoing work on instinct. (Jing, Zack)
• Fixed hgTracks bug with generating image map for LD tracks. (Mark)
• Removed outdated use of gene-check in ensembl (hgc). (Mark)
• Fixed bug setting CDS and frame when gene overlaps start of target. (Mark)
• Fixed das crash caused by guessing wrong track type, enabled printing DOCTYPE. (Mark)
• Ongoing work on mafToAnc, ratStuff/segInfo. (Rico)

Data changes:

• Lifted hg17 ultra-conserved tracks to hg18. (Andy)
• Initial work on cow (bosTau4) and sloth (choHof1). (Hiram)
• Added quality track to ponAbe2. (Hiram)