v214-preview - 25 August 2009    (Pairings)

Code changes:

• Upgrades to ENCODE validator (Brian)
• Use GIF's Graphic Control Extension to make images background color transparent (Angie)
• Added support for composite tracks to default to yellow bar when zoomed out too far (Angie)
• More support for BAM (Angie)
• Browser display speed-up efforts (Brian, Hiram, Jim, Larry, Mark)
• Tweaked error handling for CTs (Galt)
• Changed bedToBigBed to multi-pass design to conserve memory (Jim)
• More work on web 2.0 GUI improvements (Larry, Tim)

Data changes:

• More new ENCODE Data (Brian, Tim)
• Updated hg18 snp130 with corrected functional annotations from dbSNP (Angie)
• Updates for MGI: RepTranscript, Allele, Phenotype, and IKMC for mm9 (Angie)
• Vega Genes for hg18, mm9 (Rachel)
• Starting on hg19 UCSC Gene build (Jim)