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  Mon Jun 29 11:26:13 2015 -0700
added gencode genes announcement to homepage

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           To receive announcements of new genome 
           assembly releases, new software features, updates and 
           training seminars by email, subscribe to the
           <A HREF="http://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/group/genome-announce?hl=en"
           TARGET=_blank>genome-announce</A> mailing list. Please see our
           <a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/blog"
           target=_blank>blog</a> for posts about Genome Browser tools, features, projects and more.
           </p>
 
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+	<hr>
+	<p>
+	<font face="courier" size="3"><b>29 June 2015 -
+	GENCODE Genes Now the Default Gene Set on the Human (GRCh38/hg38) Assembly</b></font>
+	<p>
+	In a move towards standardizing on a common gene set within the bioinformatics 
+	community, UCSC has made the decision to adopt the GENCODE set of gene models 
+	as our default gene set on the human genome assembly. Today we have released 
+	the GENCODE v22 comprehensive gene set as our default gene set on human 
+	genome assembly GRCh38 (hg38), replacing the previous default UCSC Genes set 
+	generated by UCSC. To facilitate this transition, the new gene set employs 
+	the same familiar UCSC Genes schema, using nearly all the same table names 
+	and fields that have appeared in earlier versions of the UCSC set.
+	</p>
+	<p>
+	By default, the browser displays only the transcripts tagged as &quot;basic&quot; by the 
+	GENCODE Consortium. These may be found in the track labeled "GENCODE Basic" in 
+	the Genes and Gene Predictions track group. However, all the transcripts in the 
+	GENCODE comprehensive set are present in the tables, and may be viewed by 
+	adjusting the track configuration settings for the All GENCODE super-track. 
+	The most recent version of the UCSC-generated genes can still be accessed in 
+	the track &quot;Old UCSC Genes&quot;.
+	</p>
+	<p>
+	The new release has 195,178 total transcripts, compared with 104,178 in the 
+	previous version. The total number of canonical genes has increased from 
+	48,424 to 49,534. Comparing the new gene set with the previous version:
+	</p>
+	<ul>
+	<li>9,459 transcripts did not change.</li>
+	<li>22,088 transcripts were not carried forward to the new version.</li>
+	<li>43,681 transcripts are "compatible" with those in the previous set, 
+	meaning that the two transcripts show consistent splicing. In most cases, 
+	the old and new transcripts differ in the lengths of their UTRs.</li>
+	<li>28,950 transcripts overlap with those in the previous set, but do not 
+	show consistent splicing (i.e., they contain overlapping introns with 
+	differing splice sites)</li>
+	</ul>
+	<p>
+	More details about the new GENCODE Basic track can be found on the
+	<a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=knownGene"> 
+	GENCODE Basic track description page</a>.
+	</p>
+	<hr>
+
 	<hr>
 	<p>
 	<font face="courier" size="3"><b>26 June 2015 -
 	New Bonobo (panPan1) Assembly Now Available in the Genome Browser</b></font>
 	<p>
 	We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the May 2012
 	assembly of bonobo, <em>Pan paniscus</em> (Max-Planck Institute panpan1, UCSC
   version panPan1). The assembly was provided by the
 	<a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/"
 	target="_blank">Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</a>.
 	There are 10,867 scaffolds with a total size of 2,869,190,071 bases.
 	</p>
 	<p>
 	Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome
 	Browser
 	<a href="ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panPan1/">FTP server</a>
 	or the
 	<a href="http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bonobo">Downloads</a>
 	page. These data have
 	<a href="goldenPath/credits.html#bonobo_credits">specific conditions for use</a>.
 	The bonobo (panPan1) browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and
 	collaborators worldwide. See the
 	<a href="goldenPath/credits.html#bonobo_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed
 	list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.
 	</p>
 
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-        <p>
-        <font face="courier" size="3"><b>12 June 2015 -
-        Data Integrator</b></font>
-        <p>Have you ever wished that the Table Browser could associate your custom track items
-	with some other track, while retaining the item names from both? We have released a
-	new tool that can do just that, and more: the Data Integrator.
-	</p>
-
-	<p>Using the Data Integrator you can select up to five tracks, including custom tracks
-	and hub tracks, and output tab-separated text that contains all the fields from both
-	the first track and the overlapping items from the other track(s). If you need only
-	a subset of the fields from your selected tracks, the Data Integrator allows you to
-	choose which fields to include in the output. You can also query your current Genome
-	Browser position, search for positions of items such as genes, SNPs, etc. by name,
-	query over a set of up to 1000 positions, and even retrieve genome-wide data
-	(subject to data size). The Data Integrator output can be viewed in your web browser
-	window or downloaded to an optionally gzip-compressed file. Look for "Data Integrator"
-	in the Genome Browser Tools menu (top blue bar) if you'd like to try it out.
-	</p>
-	</p>
-
-	<p>For more information about the Data Integrator's capabilities and usage, see the
-	user's guide:
-	<a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgIntegratorHelp.html"
-	>http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgIntegratorHelp.html</a>.
-	As always, we welcome questions and feedback on our public mailing list:
-	<a href="mailto:&#103;&#101;&#110;&#111;&#109;e&#64;&#115;&#111;&#101;.uc&#115;c.&#101;&#100;&#117;"
-	>&#103;&#101;&#110;&#111;&#109;e&#64;&#115;&#111;&#101;.uc&#115;c.&#101;&#100;&#117;</a>
-	<!-- above address is genome at soe.ucsc.edu -->
-	</p>
-
-	<p>Thanks to Angie Hinrichs and Matthew Speir for all of their work on this feature.
-	</p>
-
-	<hr>
 
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 <!--
+        <p>
+        <font face="courier" size="3"><b>29 June 2015 -
+        GENCODE Genes Now Default Gene Set on the Human (GRCh38/hg38) Assembly</b>:
+        </font>
+        In a move towards standardizing on a common gene set within the bioinformatics 
+        community, UCSC has made the decision to adopt the GENCODE set of gene models 
+        as our default gene set on the human genome assembly.
+        <a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#062915">Read more</a>.
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
         <font face="courier" size="3"><b>26 June 2015 -
 	      New Bonobo (panPan1) Assembly Now Available in the Genome Browser</b>:
         </font>
 	We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the May 2012
 	assembly of bonobo, <em>Pan paniscus</em> (Max-Planck Institute panpan1, UCSC
   version panPan1).
 	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#062615">Read more</a>.
+        </p>
+-->
 
         <font face="courier" size="3"><b>12 June 2015 -
         Data Integrator</b>: </font>
         Have you ever wished that the Table Browser could associate your custom track items
 	with some other track, while retaining the item names from both? We have released a
 	new tool that can do just that, and more: the Data Integrator.
 	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#061215">Read more</a>.
 	</p>
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 	<p>
         <font face="courier" size="3"><b>28 May 2015 -
         New UCSC Genes Track Released for GRCm38/mm10</b>: </font>
         We're happy to announce the release of an updated UCSC Genes track for the GRCm38/mm10
         mouse Genome Browser.
 	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#052815">Read more</a>.
 	</p>
-
-	<p>
-	<font face="courier" size="3"><b>15 May 2015 -
-        Work for Us! New Job Openings on the UCSC Genome Browser Project</b>: </font>
-	The UCSC Genome Browser project team is looking for two talented people to join our
-	engineering staff based in Santa Cruz, CA.
-	<a href="goldenPath/newsarch.html#051515">Read more</a>. 
-	</p>
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