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+		    <p style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'courier', serif">
+            18 March 2011 - Sheep Browser Released
+		    </p>
+		    
+		    <p>We are happy to announce the release of a Genome Browser for
+		    the initial release of sheep (<em>Ovis aries</em>) genome. The Feb. 2010 <em>Ovis
+			aries</em> draft assembly(NCBI project <a
+			href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=10709"
+			target=_blank>10709</a>, <a
+			href="ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/genomes/Eukaryotes/vertebrates_mammals/Ovis_aries/
+			Ovis_aries_1.0/" target=_blank>GCA_000005525.1</a>) was produced by the <a
+			href="http://www.sheephapmap.org/" target=_blank>International Sheep Genomics Consortium (ISGC)
+			sequencing center</a>.</p>
+
+			<p>The mitochondrial genome sequenced by <a href="http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/"
+			target=_blank>Justus-Liebig-University.</a></p>
+		    
+		    <p>There are 27 chromosomes, chr1 - chr26, chrX plus the mitochondrial sequence chrM from
+			genbank accession NC_001941 for a total sequence length of 2,860,512,983 bases. There are
+			1,659,241,706 'N' bases in gaps, leaving 1,201,271,277 ACGT bases.</p>
+			
+			<p>The genome has been sequenced using 454 FLX sequencing to 3X coverage (DNA derived from
+			six female sheep each sequenced with 0.5X coverage). Contigs were assembled based on alignment to
+			the bovine genome and ordered into ovine chromosomes using BAC-end sequences and the virtual sheep
+			genome. See also: <a
+			href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=genomeprj&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Overview&list_uids=
+			33937" target=_blank>International Sheep Genomics Consortium Genome Sequencing Project </a>
+			description.</p>
+			
+			<p>We'd like to thank <a
+			href="http://www.sheephapmap.org/" target=_blank>International Sheep Genomics Consortium (ISGC)
+			sequencing center.</a> and <a href="http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/"
+			target=_blank>Justus-Liebig-University.</a> for providing this assembly.
+		    We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC team who worked on 
+		    this release: Chin Li, Greg Roe, and Luvina Guruvadoo. 
+		    The sheep browser annotation tracks were generated by 
+		    UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p>
+
+		    <hr>
+		    
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                     <FONT FACE="courier" SIZE="3"><B>04 March 2011 - The Meaning of Red: Consensus on color scheme for CNVs</B></FONT>
 		    </P>
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 		    Consensus was reached on color standards to represent CNV loss (red) 
 		    and gain (blue) in genomics databases by DGV, NCBI, DECIPHER, UCSC and ISCA 
 		    during the 1st annual ISCA Scientific Conference.
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 		    At the recent ISCA Scientific Conference in Atlanta, GA, Nigel Carter, 
 		    representing DECIPHER, made a plea for a standardized color scheme for 
 		    representation of CNV loss (deletion) or gain (duplication). Discussions 
 		    in person and by email with leaders of major CNV/genomic databases (including 
 		    DGV, dbVar, ISCA, and the UCSC Genome Browser) resulted in the recommendation 
 		    to utilize red to represent loss/deletion (consistent with the original