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  Thu Jun 30 12:44:06 2016 -0700
staged gencode genes v24 announcement, refs #10968

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+  <! -- staging gencode genes (hg38) and ucsc genes (mm10) announcment
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+  <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>30 June 2016 - Updated Gene Tracks Available for 
+  the Human (hg38) and Mouse (mm10) Assemblies</b></font>
+  <p>  
+  We are pleased to announce the release of an updated GENCODE Genes
+  track for the Human (GRCh38/hg38) assembly.
+  The GENCODE v24 gene set has 197,782 total transcripts, compared with 
+  195,178 in the previous version. 
+  The total number of canonical genes has increased from 49,534 to 49,948. 
+  Comparing the new gene set with the previous version: 
+  </p>
+  <p>
+  <ul>
+  <li>193,647 transcripts did not change.</li>
+  <li>128 transcripts were not carried forward to the new version.</li>
+  <li>997 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>406 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 GENCODE Genes track can be found on the
+  <a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=knownGene">
+  GENCODE v24 track description page</a>.
+  </p>
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   <font color="#006666" size="4"><b>27 June 2016 - New Way to Share Sessions - Public Sessions!</b></font>
   <p>
   We are excited to announce the release of the
   <a href="cgi-bin/hgPublicSessions">Public Sessions</a>
   page, the newest way to share your UCSC Genome Browser snapshots with your colleagues
   and the world. The Public Sessions page collects sessions that users have elected to share 
   publicly. Sessions on this page can be filtered based on assembly, name, or a phrase from
   the description. Sessions can also be sorted based on their popularity or creation date.
   To add your own sessions to this Public Sessions page, just check the box under "post in
   public listing" on the session management page.
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   <p>
   The Genome Browser <a href="cgi-bin/hgSession">session management</a> page has also received an
   update with the release of the new Public Sessions page. Sessions are now arranged in a table,