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+ We are excited to announce the release of the + Public Sessions + 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. +
+ ++ The Genome Browser session management page has also received an + update with the release of the new Public Sessions page. Sessions are now arranged in a table, + where varying numbers of sessions can be displayed on a page of this table. Sessions can now be + filtered and ordered based on session name, primary assembly, and creation date. Clicking on the + session name now displays that session in the Genome Browser. Session details, such as the name + or the description, can be changed using the "details" button in the new table layout. +
+ ++ The release of the new Public Sessions page also marks a change in our session expiration policy. + We no longer expire sessions and associated custom tracks four months after their last use. + Please note, however, that the UCSC Genome Browser is not a data storage service and that we + encourage you to keep local copies of your session contents and custom track data. +
+ ++ For more information about using sessions to share snapshots of the UCSC Genome Browser, + please see the User Guide or our blog post, + "How to share your UCSC screenthoughts." +
+ ++ Thanks to Jonathan Casper and Matthew Speir for their work on this new tool. +
+ +We are pleased to announce the introduction of a new supported Genome Browser mirror to serve our users in Asia. The genome-asia server (http://genome-asia.ucsc.edu), which is administered by UCSC, is physically located at the RIKEN Yokohama Campus in Japan.
Genome-asia is intended as an alternate, faster access point for those Browser users who are geographically closer to Asia than to the western United States. The mirror is functionally identical to the U.S.-based server, with one exception. Custom tracks residing on the U.S. server are not automatically accessible from the genome-asia mirror; @@ -63,93 +103,53 @@ (http://genome-euro.ucsc.edu) in Bielefeld, Germany. A third-party mirror in Aarhus, Denmark, is available as an emergency backup in the rare event that our three supported sites are offline.
We wish to express our special thanks to Dr. Hideya Kawaji at the RIKEN Advanced Center for Computing and Communication for making this possible. We would also like to acknowledge the following members of the UCSC Genome Browser team for their efforts: Galt Barber, Robert Kuhn, Jorge Garcia, and Luvina Guruvadoo.
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-- 10 May 2016 - New Gateway Page!: - The UCSC Genome Browser team is proud to announce a newly redesigned - Genome Browser Gateway page. - Please see our Gateway video for an introduction to these new features. - Read more. -