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                   To receive announcements of new genome 
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+                <font face="courier" size="3"><b>14 December 2012 -
+                Reduced Coverage During the Holidays</b></font>
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+                <p>
+		The UCSC campus will be closed for the holidays from December 22, 2012 through 
+		January 1, 2013.  During this time the Genome Browser will still be available 
+		however our backup systems will be offline for two days, December 27 and 28. 
+		During this time if we experience any issues, associated fixes are likely to be 
+		delayed. The help desk will also be minimally staffed during this period. We will 
+		be monitoring the mailing lists for urgent messages, but the bulk of the questions 
+		will go unanswered until early January.
+		</p>
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                 <font face="courier" size="3"><b>07 December 2012 -
                 dbSNP 137 Available for hg19</b></font>
 
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                 We are pleased to announce the release of four tracks derived
                 from dbSNP build 137, available on the human assembly (GRCh37/hg19).
                 dbSNP build 137 is available at NCBI. The new tracks contain
                 additional annotation data not included in previous dbSNP tracks,
                 with corresponding coloring and filtering options in the Genome
                 Browser.
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                 As for dbSNP build 137, there are four tracks in this release.
                 One is a track containing all mappings of reference SNPs to the