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more steps towards kent-core, refs #27614

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+This is a partial copy of the UCSC Genome Browser source code repository
+https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/.  It includes all files that are
+under an MIT license or in the public domain. All files can be packaged,
+redistributed and modified as needed by other projects. 
+
+The code should build with a simple "cd src; make utils". We test this on CentOS and OSX. 
+If you run into problems, please open a ticket or contact genome@soe.ucsc.edu. 
+
+If you want to file issues or pull-requests, please do that at the original repo, at 
+https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/, not here. The changes will get merged into 
+this repository automatically with the next release (see kent/build/kent-core/).
+
+You can find short descriptions for most tools here:
+http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/FOOTER.txt
+
+Here are a few selected tools that are useful when building track and assembly hubs:
+
+bedToBigBed - create a bigBed file for rectangle-shaped annotations (genes, enhancers, promoters, etc)
+bigBedToBed - the inverse of bedToBigBed
+bigBedInfo - Show information about a bigBed file. Can extract .autoSql field definitions.
+
+wigToBigWig - create a bigWig file for signal (barchart) annotations from a .wig file
+bigWigToWig - the inverse of wigToBigWig
+bigWigInfo - show information about bigWig files