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  Thu May 8 14:50:26 2025 -0700
Announcing the release of the VISTA Enhancers track update, refs #35531

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+<h2>May 5, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; VISTA Enhancers track update for Human and Mouse</h2>
+<p>
+We are happy to announce an update to the VISTA Enhancers tracks for human
+(<a target="_blank"
+	href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=vistaEnhancersBb">GRCh38/hg38</a>
+and <a target="_blank"
+        href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&position=default&g=vistaEnhancersBb">GRCh37/hg19</a>)
+and mouse (<a target="_blank"
+        href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&position=default&g=vistaEnhancersBb">GRCm39/mm39</a>
+and <a target="_blank"
+        href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm10&position=default&g=vistaEnhancersBb">GRCm38/mm10</a>)
+genome assemblies. The track shows potential enhancers whose activity was experimentally validated
+in transgenic mice. With this update, the tracks now include over 1,900 new entries for the human
+assemblies and over 2,500 new entries for the mouse assemblies. Hovering over an enhancer annotation
+now displays the tissues in which the element is active. Most of these noncoding elements were
+selected for testing based on their extreme conservation in other vertebrates or epigenomic
+evidence (ChIP-Seq) of putative enhancer marks. More information on this track can be found on the
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=vistaEnhancersBb&position=default#TRACK_HTML"
+	target="_blank">track description</a> page.</p>
+<p>
+We would like to thank the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the
+<a target="_blank" href="https://enhancer.lbl.gov/vista/">VISTA Enhancer team</a> for providing
+this data. We would also like to thank Max Haeussler and Gerardo Perez for their efforts on this
+release.</p>
+
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 <h2>Mar. 31, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Pseudogenes track for hg38</h2>
 <p>
 We are happy to announce the release of the
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=pseudogenes&position=default">Pseudogenes</a>
 track for the hg38 (GRCh38) genome assembly. The composite track contains pseudogene predictions and
 their corresponding parent genes, as identified by <a href="http://pseudogene.org/pseudopipe/"
 target="_blank">PseudoPipe</a>, a homology-based computational pipeline that searches a mammalian
 genome and identifies pseudogene sequences.</p>
 <p>
 This composite track consists of two subtracks: the <b>Pseudogene Parents</b> track and the
 <b>Pseudogenes</b> track.</p>
 <ul>
   <li><b>Pseudogene Parents</b> &ndash; This track displays parent genes labeled with their HUGO
 	  IDs, which were derived from Ensembl gene IDs provided by the Gerstein lab after dataset