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.sql src/hg/lib/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.sql
index fd55ac2..5c0603f 100644
--- src/hg/lib/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.sql
+++ src/hg/lib/encode/wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.sql
@@ -1,30 +1,30 @@
 # wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.sql was originally generated by the autoSql program, which also 
 # generated wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.c and wgEncodeGencodeAttrs.h.  This creates the database representation of
 # an object which can be loaded and saved from RAM in a fairly 
 # automatic way.
 
 #Basic set of attributes associated with all Gencode transcripts.
 CREATE TABLE wgEncodeGencodeAttrs (
     geneId varchar(255) not null,	# Gene identifier
     geneName varchar(255) not null,	# Gene name
     geneType varchar(255) not null,	# BioType of gene
-    geneStatus varchar(255) not null,	# Status of gene
+    geneStatus varchar(255) not null,	# Status of gene (obsolete)
     transcriptId varchar(255) not null,	# Transcript identifier
     transcriptName varchar(255) not null,	# Transcript name
     transcriptType varchar(255) not null,	# BioType of transcript
-    transcriptStatus varchar(255) not null,	# Status of transcript
+    transcriptStatus varchar(255) not null,	# Status of transcript (obsolete)
     havanaGeneId varchar(255) not null,	# HAVANA identifier if gene is in HAVANA
     havanaTranscriptId varchar(255) not null,	# HAVANA identifier if transcript is in HAVANA
     ccdsId varchar(255) not null,	# CCDS identifier if transcript is in CCDS
     level int not null,	# GENCODE level: 1 = experimental confirmed, 2 = manual, 3 = automated
     transcriptClass varchar(255) not null,	# high level type of transcript
     proteinId varchar(255) not null,	# Protein identifier (not loaded on many older versions of GENCODE)
               #Indices
     index(geneId),
     index(geneName),
     PRIMARY KEY(transcriptId),
     index(havanaGeneId),
     index(havanaTranscriptId),
     index(ccdsId),
     index(proteinId)
 );