6c0944e7d8e0bb76773b6c3013b0a5fbd0e95ecf
brianlee
  Thu Feb 6 10:45:07 2020 -0800
Adding message to utils about non-tested external tools and adding more links refs #24920

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@@ -23,42 +23,52 @@
   <strong><a href="http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/protDust/protDust.html">Protein 
   Duster</a></strong> -  removes formatting characters and other non-sequence-related characters 
   from an input sequence. Offers several configuration options for the output format.</li>
   <li>
   <strong><a href="cgi-bin/phyloPng">Phylogenetic Tree PNG Maker</a></strong> - creates a PNG image 
   from the phylogenetic tree specification given. Offers several configuration options for branch 
   lengths, normalized lengths, branch labels, legend etc.</li>
   <li>
   <strong><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#source_downloads">Executable and 
   Source Code Downloads</a></strong> - executable and source code downloads of the Genome Browser, 
   Blat and liftOver.</li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 <p>
 The following tools and utilities created by outside groups may be helpful when working with our
-file formats and the genome annotation databases that we provide:
+file formats and the genome annotation databases that we provide. UCSC has not tested and does
+not endorse any of these external tools.
 <ul class="gbsNoBullet">
   <li>
   <strong><a href="https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/rtracklayer.html">RTracklayer</a></strong> - 
   R package to import genome annotations from our databases</li>
   <li><strong><a href="https://pypi.org/project/twobitreader/">twobitreader</a></strong> - Python package to open
       2bit genome sequence files</li>
   <li><strong><a href="https://pypi.org/project/cruzdb/">CruzDb</a></strong> - 
       Python package to load genome annotations from our servers</li>
   <li><strong><a href="https://pypi.org/project/ucsc-genomes-downloader/">ucsc-genomes-download</a></strong> - 
       Python package to download genome sequences from our servers
   </li>
   <li><strong><a href="https://daler.github.io/trackhub/">trackhub</a></strong> - 
       Python package to manage files in our trackDb format
   </li>
   <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/Ensembl/WiggleTools">WiggleTools</a></strong> - 
       C++ Unix command-line tool to work with bigWig files: combine, merge, scale, aggregate and many other operations.
   </li>
   <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/dpryan79/libBigWig">libBigWig</a></strong> - 
       A C library to read bigWig files, without a dependency on our source code
   </li>
   <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/Gaius-Augustus/MakeHub">MakeHub</a></strong> -
       Python tool to build assembly hubs files for new genomes
   </li>
+  <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/CRG-Barcelona/bwtool/wiki">bwtool</a></strong> -
+      A command-line utility for bigWig files
+  </li>
+  <li><strong><a href="https://bedtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">bedtools</a></strong> -
+      A swiss-army knife of tools for a wide-range of genomics analysis tasks
+  </li>
+  <li><strong><a href="https://bedops.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">BEDOPS</a></strong> -
+      A highly scalable and easily-parallelizable genome analysis toolkit
+  </li>
 </ul>
 </p>
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