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gperez2
  Fri Jan 31 12:23:27 2025 -0800
Releasing and announcing the COSMIC v101 for hg38 and hg19, refs #34904

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+<h2>Jan. 31, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; New COSMIC track for hg19 and update for hg38 COSMIC track</h2>
+<p>
+We are happy to announce the release of the new COSMIC track for <a target="_blank"
+href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=cosmicMuts&position=default">hg19/GRCh37</a> and
+an update for the
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=cosmicMuts&position=default" target="_blank">hg38/GRCh38</a>.
+The <a target="_blank" href="https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/about"
+>Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer</a> (COSMIC) is an online database of expert manually
+curated somatic mutation information relating to human cancers. The COSMIC track displays data from
+the <a target="_blank"
+href="https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/release_notes/">COSMIC v101 release</a>, which includes
+Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) data from 383 samples, including 305 individuals exposed to ionizing
+radiation as children during the 1986 Chernobyl accident and 78 individuals born after 1986. WGS
+detected a total of 318,907 somatic mutations, including 315,022 non-coding variants and 3,885
+coding variants.</p>
+<p>
+We would like to thank COSMIC for providing the data to UCSC. We would also like to thank
+Lou Nassar, Max Haeussler, and Gerardo Perez for their efforts on this release.</p>
+
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 <h2>Dec. 20, 2024 &nbsp;&nbsp; NCBI Gene Orthologs track available for Human (hg38), Mouse (mm39),
     Zebrafish (danRer11), Dog (canFam6), and Cow (bosTau9)</h2>
 <p>
 We are excited to announce a new NCBI Orthologs track for the 
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=refSeqComposite&position=default"
  target="_blank">Human (hg38)</a>, 
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&g=refSeqComposite&position=default"
  target="_blank">Mouse (mm39)</a>,
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=danRer11&g=refSeqComposite&position=default"
  target="_blank">Zebrafish (danRer11)</a>,
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=canFam6&g=refSeqComposite&position=default"