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+ ++We are pleased to announce the release of the +Genome in a Bottle (GIAB) Problematic Regions tracks for the +hg38 +and +hs1 human assemblies. The tracks provide stratifications of the genome to +evaluate variant calls in complex regions and it is designed for use with Global Alliance for +Genomic Health (GA4GH) benchmarking tools like +hap.py. It includes regions with +low complexity, segmental duplications, functional regions, and difficult-to-sequence areas. The +GIAB Problematic Regions composite track consists of four subtracks:
++We would like to thank the Genome in a Bottle Consortium, Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium and NIST +for providing this data. We would also like to thank Megna Chalamala, Jairo Navarro, and Gerardo +Perez for the creation and release of these tracks.
We are pleased to announce the release of the GENCODE V47 (hg38) and the GENCODE VM36 (mm39) gene tracks. The GENCODE "KnownGene" 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 "KnownGene" 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.