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  Fri Apr 1 09:25:22 2016 -0700
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   <a href="https://www.lens.org/lens/bio" target="_blank">PatSeq</a>
   database mapped to the genome and then colored based on where the sequence appears in
   the patent document. Details pages contain the patent titles with links to the patents in the
   Lens database. The data from PatSeq is divided into two tracks, one includes those sequences
   that were submitted in bulk patents containing 100 or more sequences and the other containing
   all other sequences. These tracks are currently present on the human (hg19), mouse (mm10),
   and Ebola virus (eboVir3) genomes.
   </p>
 
   <p>
   Thanks to our collaborators at the Lens, Osmat Jefferson and Deniz Koellhofer, for providing the
   data and feedback on the visualization. Thank you to Max Haeussler and Matthew Speir, members of
   the UCSC Genome Browser team, for their efforts in creating these tracks.
   </p>
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+  <hr>
+  <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>1 Apr 2016
+  - Going Back to Our Roots</b></font>
+  <p>
+  For many years, the UCSC Genome Browser has provided a dynamic, cutting-edge
+  interface for
+  viewing genomic data.  As time has gone by, however, it has become clear to us
+  that we
+  cannot keep this up.  It is not fair to you, our users, that our interface
+  keeps changing,
+  and it has increasingly been a burden on us to keep up with emerging web
+  technologies.  Today
+  that all changes, as we return you to the roots of the web: ASCII.
+  <p>
+  <center><img src="newLook.png" width="65%"></center>
+  <p>
+  We apologize again for subjecting you to so many changes over the years, and
+  hope that this
+  new, more consistent interface will find your approval.
+  <p>
+  In related news, we have also revised the interface for uploading custom
+  tracks.  Rather than
+  forcing you to wrestle with inconvenient file formats for your data or attempt
+  to set up a web server,
+  we now provide the option of loading your data from a deck of ISO 6586:1980
+  punch cards.  Simply
+  punch your data onto a deck and mail the deck to us.  Our staff of highly
+  trained specialists
+  will take care of loading track, and will inform you by mail when the process
+  is complete.  Please
+  note that our current policy of expiring unused custom tracks remains in
+  effect; you must visit
+  your track within 72 hours of the postmark date.  Regrettably, decks cannot be
+  returned.
+  <p>
+  Card decks may be addressed to:<br>
+  UCSC Genome Informatics Group<br>
+  Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering<br>
+  CBSE, 501D Engineering II Building<br>
+  University of California, Santa Cruz<br>
+  1156 High Street<br>
+  Santa Cruz, CA 95064
+  <p>
+  This new file format is also an option for data output from the <a
+  href="/cgi-bin/hgTables">UCSC Table Browser</a>.
+  Simply select "mail card deck" from the "output format" menu, and then enter
+  your name and address on the subsequent
+  page.  Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.
+
   <hr>
   <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>21 Mar 2016
   - Genome Browsers for <i>C. elegans</i> and Brown Kiwi Now Available</b></font>
   <p>
   A Genome Browser is now available for the <em>Caenorhabditis elegans</em>
   assembly released February 2013 by the C. elegans Sequencing Consortium
   (C. elegans Sequencing Consortium version WBcel235, UCSC version ce11).
   For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
   for <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/554278" target="_blank">WBcel235</a>.
   There are 7 complete chromosomes with a total size of 100,286,401 bases.
   </p>
 
   <p>
   Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
   <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce11/">FTP server</a> or the