42166ebb87f243ac25b1b2cc15c65bdac5a60932
braney
  Fri Jun 26 14:31:11 2015 -0700
make knownGene.as have more generic description to be used for both UCSC
Genes and GENCODE Basic

diff --git src/hg/lib/knownGene.as src/hg/lib/knownGene.as
index f2e6928..b10fc82 100644
--- src/hg/lib/knownGene.as
+++ src/hg/lib/knownGene.as
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 table knownGene
-"Genes based on RefSeq, GenBank, and UniProt."
+"Transcript from default gene set in UCSC browser"
 (
 string  name;               "Name of gene"
 string  chrom;              "Reference sequence chromosome or scaffold"
 char[1] strand;             "+ or - for strand"
 uint    txStart;            "Transcription start position"
 uint    txEnd;              "Transcription end position"
 uint    cdsStart;           "Coding region start"
 uint    cdsEnd;             "Coding region end"
 uint    exonCount;          "Number of exons"
 uint[exonCount] exonStarts; "Exon start positions"
 uint[exonCount] exonEnds;   "Exon end positions"
-string  proteinID;          "UniProt display ID for Known Genes,  UniProt accession or RefSeq protein ID for UCSC Genes" 
-string  alignID;            "Unique identifier for each (known gene, alignment position) pair"
+string  proteinID;          "UniProt display ID, UniProt accession, or RefSeq protein ID" 
+string  alignID;            "Unique identifier (GENCODE transcript ID for GENCODE Basic"
 )