438d43910f377e7abe8b81cb9b04acaadaca1b6d
markd
  Thu Jul 18 13:04:33 2019 -0700
indicated that GENCODE gene/transcript status columns are obsolete

diff --git src/hg/inc/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.h src/hg/inc/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.h
index 741a2bb..6c5f4bb 100644
--- src/hg/inc/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.h
+++ src/hg/inc/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.h
@@ -5,35 +5,35 @@
 #ifndef WGENCODEGENCODEATTRS_H
 #define WGENCODEGENCODEATTRS_H
 
 #define WGENCODEGENCODEATTRS_NUM_COLS 14
 #define WGENCODEGENCODEATTRS_NO_PROTEIN_ID_NUM_COLS 13  // older tables
 
 extern char *wgEncodeGencodeAttrsCommaSepFieldNames;
 
 struct wgEncodeGencodeAttrs
 /* Basic set of attributes associated with all Gencode transcripts. */
     {
     struct wgEncodeGencodeAttrs *next;  /* Next in singly linked list. */
     char *geneId;	/* Gene identifier */
     char *geneName;	/* Gene name */
     char *geneType;	/* BioType of gene */
-    char *geneStatus;	/* Status of gene */
+    char *geneStatus;	/* Status of gene (obsolete) */
     char *transcriptId;	/* Transcript identifier */
     char *transcriptName;	/* Transcript name */
     char *transcriptType;	/* BioType of transcript */
-    char *transcriptStatus;	/* Status of transcript */
+    char *transcriptStatus;	/* Status of transcript (obsolete) */
     char *havanaGeneId;	/* HAVANA identifier if gene is in HAVANA */
     char *havanaTranscriptId;	/* HAVANA identifier if transcript is in HAVANA */
     char *ccdsId;	/* CCDS identifier if transcript is in CCDS */
     int level;	/* GENCODE level: 1 = experimental confirmed, 2 = manual, 3 = automated */
     char *transcriptClass;	/* high level type of transcript */
     char *proteinId;	/* Protein identifier (not loaded on many older versions of GENCODE) */
     };
 
 void wgEncodeGencodeAttrsStaticLoad(char **row, int numColumns, struct wgEncodeGencodeAttrs *ret);
 /* Load a row from wgEncodeGencodeAttrs table into ret.  The contents of ret will
  * be replaced at the next call to this function. */
 
 struct wgEncodeGencodeAttrs *wgEncodeGencodeAttrsLoad(char **row, int numColumns);
 /* Load a wgEncodeGencodeAttrs from row fetched with select * from wgEncodeGencodeAttrs
  * from database.  Dispose of this with wgEncodeGencodeAttrsFree(). */