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  Thu Nov 30 10:29:32 2023 -0800
News announcement for the HGVS search feature, refs #26016

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+<h2>Nov. 30, 2023 &nbsp;&nbsp; Support for previous RefSeq transcripts while searching on hg38</h2>
+<p>
+Have you ever found a variant in a paper and searched for it on the Genome Browser only 
+to receive an error that the sequence cannot be found? Or perhaps looked up a familiar 
+NM_ identifier and suddenly found no results?</p>
+<p>
+We are pleased to share that we now have support for searching previous RefSeq 
+transcript versions on hg38. This support works for both NM_ accessions 
+and <a target="_blank" href="https://hgvs-nomenclature.org/en/latest/">HGVS</a> 
+searching as demonstrated below:</p>
+
+<p>
+<b>Searching for the latest transcript which always worked:</b>
+<ul>
+<li>
+Sequence search: <a target="_blank" 
+href="../cgi-bin/hgSearch?search=NM_198056.3&db=hg38">NM_198056.3</a></li>
+<li>
+HGVS search: <a target="_blank"
+href="../cgi-bin/hgSearch?search=NM_198056.3%3Ac.1A%3EC&db=hg38">NM_198056.3:c.1A>C</a></li></ul></p>
+<p>
+<b>Searching for a previous version that now works::</b>
+<ul>
+<li>
+Sequence search: <a target="_blank"
+href="../cgi-bin/hgSearch?search=NM_198056.3&db=hg38">NM_198056.2</a></li>
+<li>
+HGVS search: <a target="_blank"
+href="../cgi-bin/hgSearch?search=NM_198056.3%3Ac.1A%3EC&db=hg38">NM_198056.2:c.1A>C</a></li></ul></p>
+
+<p>
+We thank <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/">NCBI</a> and Terence 
+Murphy for creating the archive of deprecated transcripts that allows this feature 
+to work. We would also like to thank the users who wrote requesting the feature 
+allowing us to prioritize it effectively. Finally, we would like to thank Chris Lee, 
+Max Haeussler, Gerardo Perez, and Lou Nassar for developing and testing this feature.</p>
+
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 <h2>Nov. 22, 2023 &nbsp;&nbsp; CRISPR Targets for Zebrafish (danRer10/danRer11) now available</h2>
 <p>
 We are happy to announce the release of the CRISPR Targets track for the Zebrafish
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=danRer10&g=crisprAllTargets" target="_blank">danRer10</a> and
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=danRer11&g=crisprAllTargets" target="_blank">danRer11</a>
 assemblies. CRISPR-Cas9 has been applied in Zebrafish for gene knockout, gene screening
 and other gene editing studies.</p>
 <p>
 The CRISPR Targets track shows the DNA sequences targetable by CRISPR RNA guides using the Cas9
 enzyme from S. pyogenes (PAM: NGG) over the entire zebrafish genome. CRISPR target sites were
 annotated with predicted specificity (off-target effects) and predicted efficiency (on-target
 cleavage) by various algorithms through the tool
 <a href="http://crispor.tefor.net/" target="_blank">CRISPOR</a>. The target sequence of the guide
 is shown with a thick (exon) bar. The PAM motif match (NGG) is shown with a thinner bar. Guides are