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

diff --git src/hg/lib/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.as src/hg/lib/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.as
index e3b6fba..0186796 100644
--- src/hg/lib/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.as
+++ src/hg/lib/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.as
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 table wgEncodeGencodeAttrs
 "Basic set of attributes associated with all Gencode transcripts."
     (
     string geneId; "Gene identifier"
     string geneName; "Gene name"
     string geneType; "BioType of gene"
-    string geneStatus; "Status of gene"
+    string geneStatus; "Status of gene (obsolete)"
     string transcriptId; "Transcript identifier"
     string transcriptName; "Transcript name"
     string transcriptType; "BioType of transcript"
-    string transcriptStatus; "Status of transcript"
+    string transcriptStatus; "Status of transcript (obsolete)"
     string havanaGeneId; "HAVANA identifier if gene is in HAVANA"
     string havanaTranscriptId; "HAVANA identifier if transcript is in HAVANA"
     string ccdsId; "CCDS identifier if transcript is in CCDS"
     int level; "GENCODE level: 1 = experimental confirmed, 2 = manual, 3 = automated"
     string transcriptClass; "high level type of transcript"
     string proteinId; "Protein identifier (not loaded on many older versions of GENCODE)"
     )