96c2606027143a39814b829c7312fd7f6a10f84c kuhn Mon Aug 26 14:56:35 2019 -0700 improved punctuation of sentence diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/history.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/history.html index e0a2b8f..f24c63b 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/history.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/history.html @@ -32,31 +32,31 @@ The UCSC Genome Browser is a web-based tool serving as a multi-powered microscope that allows researchers to view all 23 chromosomes of the human genome at any scale from a full chromosome down to an individual nucleotide. The browser integrates the work of countless scientists in laboratories worldwide, including work generated at UCSC, in an interactive, graphical display.</p> <p> Zoomed out, the coarse-level view shows early chromosome maps as determined by electron microscopy, then the browser drills down to levels of increasing detail, focusing first on chromosome bands, then on gene clusters (showing known genes-mostly those linked to diseases), then single genes, then the components of genes, and finally on the nucleotides-the As, Cs, Gs, and Ts that make up the genome alphabet. Not only does the browser show the genome sequence, but it also delineates known areas of the genome and offers supplementary information about the genes-in effect, providing the word breaks and punctuation.</p> <p> Genome sequences are difficult to read because they consist of letter strings with no breaks or punctuation. The example below contains 7 different letters (genomes contain only 4). Can you -understand what it is saying (line borrowed from the Movie, <em>Charly</em>)?</p> +understand what it is saying? (Line borrowed from the movie, <em>Charly</em>.)</p> <pre> THATTHATISISTHATTHATISNOTISNOTISTHATITITIS</pre> <p> With word breaks and punctuation, it starts to make sense:</p> <pre> THAT THAT IS, IS. THAT THAT IS NOT, IS NOT. IS THAT IT? IT IS!</pre> <p> The UCSC Genome Browser group played a pivotal role in bringing this extraordinary life script into the light of science. The browser presents both experimentally validated and computer-predicted genes along with dozens of lines of evidence that help scientists recognize the key features of genes and predict their function. The databases for the genome browser are updated nightly with new information generated by researchers throughout the world.</p> <p> When directed to focus on a particular segment of the genome, the browser displays a range of data that are stacked vertically. At the top, it shows the chromosome number and the current position on