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+		    <FONT FACE="courier" SIZE="3"><B>23 July 2010 - BigBed/BigWig Paper Published</B></FONT>
+                    </P>
+		    <P>Last summer, we announced the release of new data formats for very large data sets: BigBed
+		    and BigWig. Read more about these data formats
+		    <A HREF="https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome-announce/2009-July/000165.html" 
+		    TARGET=_blank>here</A>. As a follow up, we are pleased to announce that we have published a 
+		    paper on these new file formats.
+
+                    <BLOCKQUOTE>
+			Kent WJ, Zweig AS, Barber G, Hinrichs AS, Karolchik D.
+			<A HREF="http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btq351"
+			TARGET=_blank>BigWig and BigBed: enabling browsing of large distributed data sets.</A>
+			<EM>Bioinformatics</EM>. 2010 July 17. Published online in advance of print.
+                    </BLOCKQUOTE>
+
+		   <P>From the abstract:<BR>
+		   BigWig and BigBed files are compressed binary indexed files containing data at several 
+		   resolutions that allow the high-performance display of next-generation sequencing experiment 
+		   results in the UCSC Genome Browser. The visualization is implemented using a multi-layered 
+		   software approach that takes advantage of specific capabilities of web-based protocols and 
+		   Linux and UNIX operating systems files, R trees, and various indexing and compression tricks. 
+		   As a result, only the data needed to support the current browser view is transmitted rather 
+		   than the entire file, enabling fast remote access to large distributed data sets.</P>
+
+		   <P>The supplemental materials (available online) contain the technical details about the 
+		   implementation.
+		    </P><HR>
+
+		    <P>
 		    <FONT FACE="courier" SIZE="3"><B>21 July 2010 - Free Genome Browser
                     workshops available </B></FONT>
                     </P>