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  Tue Jun 25 05:09:04 2019 -0700
making data access section of gene interactions better, refs #17960

diff --git src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/interactions.html src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/interactions.html
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 accompanying this gene interaction graph for more information on its configuration.</p>
 
 <h2>Methods</h2>
 <p>
 The pathways and gene interactions were imported from a number of databases and mined from
 millions of PubMed abstracts. More information can be found in the
 &quot;<a href="../../goldenPath/help/hgGeneGraph.html#methods" target="_blank">Data Sources
 and Methods</a>&quot;
 section of the help page for the gene interaction graph.</p>
 
 <h2>Data Access</h2>
 <p>
 The underlying data for this track can be accessed interactively through the
 <a href="hgTables" target="_blank">Table Browser</a> or
 <a href="hgIntegrator" target="_blank">Data Integrator</a>. 
-For automated analysis, the genome annotation is stored in a bigBed file that can be obtained
+The data for this track is spread across a number of relational tables. The best way to 
+export or analyze the data is using our <a href="../goldenPath/help/mysql.html">public MySQL server</a>.
+The list of tables and how they are linked together are described in the 
+<a href="../goldenPath/help/hgGeneGraph.html#dataAccess">documentation</a> 
+linked at the bottom of the <a href="hgGeneGraph">gene interaction viewer</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The genome annotation is just a summary of the actual interactions database and therefore often not 
+of interest to most users. It is stored in a bigBed file that can be obtained
 from the
 <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/$db/bbi/" target="_blank">download server</a>.
-The data for this track is spread across a number of files and tables. The data underlying the
+
+The data underlying the
 graphical display is in <a href="../../goldenPath/help/bigBed.html" target="_blank">bigBed</a>
 formatted file named <tt>interactions.bb</tt>. Individual regions or the whole genome annotation
 can be obtained using our tool <tt>bigBedToBed</tt>. Instructions
 for downloading source code and precompiled binaries can be found
 <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#utilities_downloads"
 target="_blank">here</a>. The tool can also
 be used to obtain only features within a given range, for example:
 <p>
 <tt>bigBedToBed http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/$db/bbi/interactions.bb
 -chrom=chr6 -start=0 -end=1000000 stdout</tt>
 </p>
 
 <h2>Credits</h2>
 <p>
 The text-mined data for the gene interactions and pathways were generated by Chris Quirk and