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Staging and releasing the new GENCODE Known Gene tracks V47 and VM36, refs #34219 #34218

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+<h2>Oct. 23, 2024 &nbsp;&nbsp; New GENCODE &quot;KnownGene&quot; V47 for human (hg38) and VM36 for mouse (mm39)</h2>
+<p>
+We are pleased to announce the release of the
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=knownGene">GENCODE V47 (hg38)</a>
+and the
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&position=default&g=knownGene">GENCODE VM36 (mm39)</a> gene tracks.
+The GENCODE &quot;KnownGene&quot; V47 and VM36 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.</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 v47 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>19,433</td><td>Protein-coding transcripts</td><td>89,832</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Long non-coding RNA genes</td><td>35,934</td><td><font size="-1">- full length protein-coding</font></td><td>64,988</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Small non-coding RNA genes</td><td>7,565</td><td><font size="-1">- partial length protein-coding</font></td><td>24,844</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Pseudogenes</td><td>14,703</td><td>Nonsense mediated decay transcripts</td><td>21,873</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Immunoglobulin/T-cell receptor gene segments</td><td>648</td><td>Long non-coding RNA loci transcripts</td><td>191,106</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Total No of distinct translations</td><td>65,809</td><td>Genes that have more than one distinct translations</td><td>13,646</td></tr>
+</table><BR>
+</p>
+<p>
+<table class="stdTbl">
+<tr><th COLSPAN=4>GENCODE VM36 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>21,470</td><td>Protein-coding transcripts</td><td>58,547</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Long non-coding RNA genes</td><td>36,172</td><td><font size="-1">- full length protein-coding</font></td><td>44,949</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>13,598</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Pseudogenes</td><td>13,769</td><td>Nonsense mediated decay transcripts</td><td>7,247</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>156,135</td></tr>
+<tr align=left><td>Total No of distinct translations</td><td>44,888</td><td>Genes that have more than one distinct translations</td><td>10,840</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>Oct. 9, 2024 &nbsp;&nbsp; CADD v1.7 and ClinGen CSpec tracks for hg19 and hg38</h2>
 <p>
 We are excited to announce two new tracks available for human assemblies hg38/GRCh38 and hg19/GRCh37.</p>
 
 <h3>Clingen CSpec Variant Interpretation VCEP Specifications</h3>
 <p>
 The <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=clinGenComp">ClinGen VCEP Specifications
 track</a> identifies loci that have <a target="_blank"
 href="https://cspec.genome.network/cspec/ui/svi/">ClinGen criteria Specification (CSpec)</a>
 information. This is used and
 applied by ClinGen Variant Curation Expert Panels (VCEPs) and biocurators in the classification 
 of variants.</p>
 
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