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  Tue Aug 14 14:47:17 2012 -0700
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+		<font face="courier" size="3"><b>14 August 2012 - Changes to our website</b></font>
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+                <p>We are pleased to announce a few changes to the look and feel of the Genome
+Browser website. In addition to a new font throughout the site, the first thing you might notice is
+a new menu bar across the top of many of the pages. We have reorganized the navigation on our web
+applications with you in mind; we hope you find it more intuitive.</p>
+
+<p>Additionally, we greatly simplified the search mechanism. We collapsed all search methods into a
+single box.</p>
+
+<a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/images/autoselect.jpg" style="border:none; display: block;
+width:700px; height: 129px; margin:0 auto;"><img src="http://genome.ucsc.edu/images/autoselect.jpg"
+style="width:700px; height: 129px; border: 1px solid #000;"></a>
+
+<p>In this box, you can search for chromosomal coordinate ranges, gene names, accession numbers,
+keywords, etc. For a complete list of ways to query the browser data, see <a
+href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/query.html">Querying the Genome Browser</a>.</p>
+
+<p>As always, if you have questions about the website or the data, please <a href="http://hgwdev-greg.cse.ucsc.edu/contacts.html">Contact Us</a>.</p>
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+        <p>        
            	<font face="courier" size="3"><b>16 July 2012 - Tasmanian Devil
 		Assembly Now Available in Genome Browser </b></font>
+	    </p>
                 <p>We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser 
 		for the February 2011 Tasmanian devil assembly, <em>Sarcophilus harrisii</em> 
 		(WTSI version Devil_refv7.0, UCSC version sarHar1). The Tasmanian devil, 
 		which is native to the island of Tasmania, is at risk of extinction due 
 		to a transmissible facial cancer. The devil population in Tasmania has declined by more 
 		than 80% since the first time the disease was observed 14 years ago. 
 		This draft assembly, created by the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/" target="_blank"
 		>Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute</a>,
 		was sequenced using Illumina reads. This completed genome is the first step
 		towards finding genetic mutations in the transmissible cancer, which will help
 		researchers understand the disease and its spread.				
 		<p>
 		Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available 
 		via the Genome Browser 
 		<a href="ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sarHar1/"