f8d3476f038e91f93e1097731aa49bd04c7fc711 donnak Wed Jul 7 01:01:00 2010 -0700 Added news item about 10-yr anniversary; archived a news item. diff --git src/hg/htdocs/indexNews.html src/hg/htdocs/indexNews.html index 34da083..1b2bb35 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/indexNews.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/indexNews.html @@ -1,76 +1,122 @@ <!--News Section-----------------------------------------------> <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BGCOLOR="#888888" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="1"> <TR><TD> <TABLE BGCOLOR="#fffee8" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"> <TR><TD> <TABLE BGCOLOR="#D9E4F8" BACKGROUND="images/hr.gif" WIDTH="100%" BORDER=0> <TR><TD> <!--cheap trick to get background on row to be continuous--> <TABLE CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD ALIGN="left"> <FONT SIZE="4"><A NAME="TOC"></A><B> News</B></FONT></TD> <TD ALIGN="right"><A HREF="goldenPath/newsarch.html"><IMG SRC="images/news.jpg" ALT="" ALIGN="right" BORDER=0></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> </TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE BGCOLOR="#fffee8" WIDTH="100%" CELLPADDING=0> <TR><TH HEIGHT=3></TH></TR> <TR><TD WIDTH=10></TD> <TD> <P> To receive announcements of new genome assembly releases, new software features, updates and training seminars by email, subscribe to the <A HREF="https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome-announce" TARGET=_blank>genome-announce</A> mailing list.</P> <!-- start news --> - <FONT FACE="courier" SIZE="3"><B>4 June 2010 - dbSNP 131 available for hg19</B></FONT> + <FONT FACE="courier" SIZE="3"><B>7 July 2010 - Happy +Birthday, Human Genome!</B></FONT> + <P><TABLE ALIGN = RIGHT><TR><TD ALIGN = RIGHT WIDTH = 519 + HEIGHT = 344> + <IMG SRC = "../../images/10yrGraph4.gif" + WIDTH = 504 HEIGHT = 329 ALIGN = RIGHT> + + </TD></TR> + <TR><TD ALIGN=RIGHT> + <FONT SIZE=-1> Top graph: total traffic on the UCSC + domain during June-July, 2000. Bottom graph: page hit <BR> + statistics on genome.ucsc.edu in the + ensuing years since the Genome Browser was released. + <BR> + </FONT> + </TD></TR></TABLE> + <P> + UCSC is pleased to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the + debut of the first assembled human genome sequence and its + then-fledgling visualization tool, the UCSC Genome Browser. + Released on July 7, 2000, the genome sequence instantly + created unprecedented web traffic on the + genome.ucsc.edu domain as researchers around the world + scrambled to download the data: 0.5 terabytes per day, a + record that still stands. + <P> + David Haussler recounts that day: + "Seeing the waterfall of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts pouring + off our server was an emotional moment. We were witnessing + the product of more than three billion years of evolution, + sequences passed down from the beginning of life to + present-day humans." <sup>1</sup> + <P> + The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group is proud of the role + we have played in bringing the + human genome, as well as the genomes of many other species, + to the world. We'd like to thank NHGRI, HHMI, and our other + funding agencies for making this service possible, and + also our many users and collaborators for their suggestions, + contributions, and support throughout the years. We look + forward to serving as a reliable + source of bioinformatics tools and genomic annotations in + the years to come while facing the exciting challenges + presented by rapidly advancing technology. <P> + To read more about UCSC's role in the race to assemble the + first working draft of the human genome, including Jim + Kent's remarkable programming feat that pulled it all + together in the final weeks, see the + <A HREF="http://www.cbse.ucsc.edu/research/hgp_race" + TARGET=_blank>Center for Biomolecular Science and + Engineering</A> (CBSE) website. + </P><P> + <FONT SIZE=-1> + (1) Sansom C, Morrison McKay BJ (2008) ISCB Honors David Haussler and Aviv +Regev. PLoS Comput Biol 4(7): e1000101 + </FONT> + </P> + <HR> + <FONT FACE="courier" SIZE="3"><B>4 June 2010 - dbSNP +131 Available for hg19: </B></FONT> We are pleased to announce the release of dbSNP build 131, available from on the human - assembly (GRCh37/hg19). The dbSNP build 131 is available - at <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP" - target=_blank>NCBI</a>. - The SNPs (131) track contains 26,033,053 - mappings of 23,445,889 reference SNPs that have been mapped to the - reference genome by dbSNP. This is a significant increase from the - provisional hg19 mappings of build 130 (18,404,149 mappings of - 17,512,501 SNPs). - </p><p> - You will find the SNPs (131) track on the Human Feb. 2009 - (GRCh37/hg19) browser in the "Variation and Repeats" group. + assembly (GRCh37/hg19). + <A HREF="goldenPath/newsarch.html#060410">Read more</A>. </p> - <p> - Many thanks to dbSNP at NCBI for the data. The track was - produced at UCSC by Angie Hinrichs and Mary Goldman. - <HR> <P> <FONT FACE="courier" SIZE="3"><B>3 June 2010 - Updated Marmoset Genome Browser Available: </B></FONT> We have released an updated Genome Browser for the marmoset, <em>Callithrix jacchus</em>. - <A HREF="goldenPath/newsarch.html#030610">Read more</A>. + <A HREF="goldenPath/newsarch.html#060310">Read more</A>. </P><p> <font face="courier" size="3"><b>12 May 2010 - Pig Genome Browser Released: </b></font> We have released a Genome Browser for the pig, <em>Sus scrofa</em>. - <a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#120510">Read more</a>. + <a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#051210">Read more</a>. </p><p> <FONT FACE="courier" SIZE="3"><B>6 May 2010 - UCSC Hosts Portal for Neandertal Sequence, Alignments, and Analyses: </B></FONT> In conjunction with the publication of the paper Green <em>et al.</em> <A HREF="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710" TARGET=_blank>A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome</A> in the May 7 issue of <em>Science</em>, the UCSC Genome Browser project has released a public <A HREF="Neandertal">Neandertal portal</A> that may be used to access the Neandertal sequence, alignments to the UCSC hg18 (NCBI Build 36) human reference assembly and the UCSC panTro2 (Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium v2.1) chimpanzee reference assembly, and several associated analyses. <A HREF="goldenPath/newsarch.html#050610">Read more</A>. </P> </TD><TD WIDTH=15> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR></TD></TR></TABLE> </TD></TR></TABLE>