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luvina
  Wed Apr 8 11:49:18 2015 -0700
added announcement for bigGenPred

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           <a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/blog"
           target=_blank>blog</a> for posts about Genome Browser tools, features, projects and more.
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+	<font face="courier" size="3"><b>08 April 2015 -
+        bigGenePred Format Now Supported in the Genome Browser</b></font>
+        <p>
+	We are pleased to announce that the UCSC Genome Browser now supports data in 
+	bigGenePred format. bigGenePred format stores annotation items that are a linked collection 
+	of exons, much as BED files do, but bigGenePred has additional information 
+	about the coding frames and other gene specific information. bigGenePred files are created initially 
+	from BED-type files with some extra fields, using the program bedToBigBed with a special 
+	AutoSQL file that defines the fields of the bigGenePred. The resulting bigBed files are in an 
+	indexed binary format. The advantage of these bigBed files is that only portions of the files 
+	needed to display a particular region are transferred to UCSC. So for large data sets, 
+	bigBed is considerably faster than regular BED files.
+	<p>
+	This new format is available for use in custom tracks and data hubs. For more information 
+	about bigGenePred, please see our 
+	<a href="genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bigGenePred.html">bigGenePred Track Format help page</a>.
+	</p>
+
+	<hr>
+	<p>
 	<font face="courier" size="3"><b>02 April 2015 -
 	New Tarsier (tarSyr2) Assembly Now Available in the Genome Browser</b></font>
 	<p>
 	We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the September 2013
 	assembly of tarsier, <em>Tarsius syrichta</em> (WashU Tarsius_syrichta-2.0.1,
 	UCSC version tarSyr2). The whole genome shotgun assembly was provided by
 	<a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/tarsius-syrichta/"
 	target="_blank">Washington University</a>.
 	There are 337,189 scaffolds with a total size of 3,453,864,774 bases.
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 	<p>
 	Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome
 	Browser
 	<a href="ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/tarSyr2/">FTP server</a>
 	or the
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          target="_blank">Genome Reference Consortium</a>, who took over the improvement and
         maintenance of the zebrafish genome assembly.
         </p>
 
         <p>
         The GRCz10 assembly improves upon Zv9 by utilizing optical mapping and additional meiotic
         mapping to fill gaps with new clone sequence and improve the positioning of assembly
         components.  This has also been supplemented with a new whole genome shotgun assembly
         WGS31. The result is an assembly with a sequence length of 1.3 Gb in 26 chromosomes and
         1,035 scaffolds.  For more details about the GRCz10 assembly, see the
         <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/210611"
          target="_blank">GRCz10 assembly page</a> or the official
         <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/10-08-2014-zebrafish-grcz10-annotated/"
          target="_blank">GRCz10 announcement</a>.
         </p>
-
-        <p>
-        The danRer10 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser
-        <a href="ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer10/">FTP server</a> or
-        <a href="http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page.
-        </p>
-
-        <p>
-        We'd like to thank the Genome Reference Consortium for providing this assembly. The UCSC
-        zebrafish Genome Browser was produced by Hiram Clawson, Brian Raney and Steve Heitner. See the
-        <a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#zebrafish_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list
-        of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.
-
         <hr>
 
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+	<font face="courier" size="3"><b>08 April 2015 -
+        bigGenePred Format Now Supported in the Genome Browser</b>: </font>
+        We are pleased to announce that the UCSC Genome Browser now supports data in
+        bigGenePred format.
+	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#040815">Read more</a>.
+        </p>
+
+	<p>
 	<font face="courier" size="3"><b>02 April 2015 -
         New Tarsier (tarSyr2) Assembly Now Available in the Genome Browser</b>: </font>
         We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the September 2013
         assembly of tarsier, <em>Tarsius syrichta</em> (WashU Tarsius_syrichta-2.0.1,
         UCSC version tarSyr2).
 	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#040215_2">Read more</a>.
 	</p>
 
         <p>
-        <font face="courier" size="3"><b><b>02 April 2015 - New Training Video!</b></font>
+        <font face="courier" size="3"><b>02 April 2015 - New Training Video!</b></font>
         View it now on our
         <a href="http://bit.ly/genomebrowserYoutube" target=_"blank">YouTube channel</a>.
-        <a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#040215">Read more</a>.
         </p>
-
+-->
         <font face="courier" size="3"><b>01 April 2015 - New GRCz10 Zebrafish Assembly Now Available</b>: </font>
         The most recent zebrafish assembly -- GRCz10 (UCSC version danRer10, Sep. 2014) -- is now
         available in the UCSC Genome Browser.
         <a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#040115">Read more</a>.
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+
 
         <font face="courier" size="3"><b>20 March 2015 - New Visualization Option for RepeatMasker</b>: </font>
 	We are excited to announce the release of the new RepeatMasker Visualization track for the
 	hg38 and mm10 assemblies.
         <a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#032015">Read more</a>.
 
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