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14 December 2012 - Reduced Coverage During the HolidaysThe 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. + January 1, 2013. 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.
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,