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  Wed Sep 6 17:25:50 2023 -0700
Staging and releasing the new GENCODE Known Gene tracks V44 and VM33, refs #30840 #30841

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+<a name="090723"></a>
+<h2>Sep. 07, 2023 &nbsp;&nbsp; GENCODE Genes V44 for human (hg38) and VM33 for mouse (mm39)</h2>
+<p>
+We are pleased to announce the release of the
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=knownGene&c=chrX">GENCODE V44 (hg38)</a>
+and the
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&g=knownGene&c=chrX">GENCODE VM33 (mm39)</a> tracks.
+The track description pages for these tracks contain options
+for configuring the display such as also showing non-coding genes, splice variants, and pseudogenes.
+Different tags and labels may also be toggled.</p>
+
+<p>
+Below is a summary of the contents found in each release. For more details visit the <a target="_blank"
+href="https://www.gencodegenes.org/">GENCODE site</a>.</p>
+<p>
+<table class="stdTbl">
+<tr><th COLSPAN=4>GENCODE v44 Release Stats</th></tr>
+<tr align=left><th>Genes</th><th>Observed</th><th>Transcripts</th><th>Observed</th></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Protein-coding genes</td><td>19,396</td><td>Protein-coding transcripts</td><td>89,067</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Long non-coding RNA genes</td><td>19,922</td><td><font size="-1">- full length protein-coding</font></td><td>63,968</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Small non-coding RNA genes</td><td>7,566</td><td><font size="-1">- partial length protein-coding</font></td><td>25,099</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Pseudogenes</td><td>14,735</td><td>Nonsense mediated decay transcripts</td><td>21,384</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Immunoglobulin/T-cell receptor gene segments</td><td>647</td><td>Long non-coding RNA loci transcripts</td><td>58,246</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Total No of distinct translations</td><td>65,342</td><td>Genes that have more than one distinct translations</td><td>13,594</td></tr>
+</table><BR>
+</p>
+<p>
+<table class="stdTbl">
+<tr><th COLSPAN=4>GENCODE VM33 Release Stats</th></tr>
+<tr align=left><th>Genes</th><th>Observed</th><th>Transcripts</th><th>Observed</th></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Protein-coding genes</td><td>21,403</td><td>Protein-coding transcripts</td><td>58,750</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Long non-coding RNA genes</td><td>14,842</td><td><font size="-1">- full length protein-coding</font></td><td>45,112</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Small non-coding RNA genes</td><td>6,105</td><td><font size="-1">- partial length protein-coding</font></td><td>13,638</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Pseudogenes</td><td>13,809</td><td>Nonsense mediated decay transcripts</td><td>7,218</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Immunoglobulin/T-cell receptor gene segments</td><td>701</td><td>Long non-coding RNA loci transcripts</td><td>26,564</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Total No of distinct translations</td><td>44,993</td><td>Genes that have more than one distinct translations</td><td>10,893</td></tr>
+</table><BR>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We would like to thank the <a target="_blank"
+href="https://www.gencodegenes.org/pages/gencode.html">GENCODE project</a> for providing these
+annotations. We would also like to thank Jonathan Casper and Gerardo Perez for the development and
+release of these tracks.</p>
+
+
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 <h2>Aug. 18, 2023 &nbsp;&nbsp; New GENCODE gene tracks: Human V44 (hg19/hg38) - Mouse VM33
 (mm39)</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce new GENCODE Gene annotation tracks, which correspond
 to <a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2023/07/17/ensembl-110-has-been-released/"
 target="_blank">Ensembl 110</a>, for three assemblies: <a target="_blank"
 href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&c=chrX&g=wgEncodeGencodeV44lift37">hg19/GRCh37</a>,
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chrX&g=wgEncodeGencodeV44">hg38/GRCh38</a>,
 and
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&c=chr12&g=wgEncodeGencodeVM33">mm39/GRCm39</a>.
 For human, the GENCODE V44 annotations were mapped to hg38/GRCh38 and then back-mapped
 to the hg19/GRCh37 assembly. For all three assemblies, the gene sets contain the
 following tracks:</p>
 <ul>