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gperez2
  Fri Sep 8 13:30:18 2023 -0700
Updating news announcement for GENCODE KnownGene V44 and VM33, refs #30840 #30841

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 <p>You can sign-up to get these announcements via our 
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 email list. We send around one short announcement email every two weeks.</p>
 
 <p>Smaller software changes are not announced here.  A summary of the three-weekly release changes can be 
 <a target=_blank href="https://genecats.gi.ucsc.edu/builds/versions.html">here</a>. 
 For the full list of our daily code changes head to <a
 href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/commits/master"
 target=_blank>our GitHub page</a>.</p>
 
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-<h2>Sep. 07, 2023 &nbsp;&nbsp; GENCODE Genes V44 for human (hg38) and VM33 for mouse (mm39)</h2>
+<h2>Sep. 07, 2023 &nbsp;&nbsp; New GENCODE &quot;KnownGene&quot; 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>
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&g=knownGene&c=chrX">GENCODE VM33 (mm39)</a> gene tracks.
+The GENCODE &quot;KnownGene&quot; V44 for hg38 and VM33 gene tracks were built using a UCSC 
+pipeline (KnownGene) and the GENCODE comprehensive gene set to generate high-quality manual
+annotations merged with evidence-based automated annotations. The GENCODE &quot;KnownGene&quot;
+tracks are our default gene tracks, which have extensive associations to external sources. This
+allows for additional metadata on every item as well as external links. The track description pages
+contain options for configuring the display, such as showing non-coding genes, splice variants, and
+pseudogenes. The track description pages for these tracks contain options for configuring the
+display such as also showing non-coding genes, splice variants, and pseudogenes.</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>