6d3847d1a7c65126cb2b38f631c8b8db737efdf0 lrnassar Wed Jun 25 17:30:56 2025 -0700 Making small tweaks to the new trainings, like reducing the image width to 65% so it better fits on the screen due to the resolution, and staging various updates on our pages including the news archive announcing the release of our new tutorials page, refs #35956 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html index d4190fff887..b8871b98a0e 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html @@ -52,30 +52,58 @@ <p>You can sign-up to get these announcements via our <a target=_blank href="https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/g/genome-announce?hl=en">Genome-announce</a> email list. We send around one short announcement email every two weeks.</p> <p>Smaller software changes are not announced here. A summary of the three-weekly release changes can be found <a target=_blank href="https://genecats.gi.ucsc.edu/builds/versions.html">here</a>. For the full list of our daily code changes head to our <a href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/commits/master" target=_blank>GitHub page</a>. Lastly, see our <a href="credits.html" target="_blank"> credits page</a> for acknowledgments of the data we host.</p> <!-- ============= 2025 archived news ============= --> <a name="2025"></a> +<a name="062625"></a> +<h2>June 26, 2025 New Genome Browser tutorials</h2> +<p> +We have a new training page, <a href="/docs/">Genome Browser Tutorials</a>, that consists of independent +tutorials covering some of our most popular tools. Each tutorial is comprised of three parts:</p> +<ul> +<li>An annotated screenshot identifying the important elements on the page</li> +<li>A guided walkthrough that leads you through the steps to learn the material</li> +<li>An interactive tutorial that redirects you to the tool and highlights elements on your screen +while explaining each step</li></ul> +<p> +The page contains three tutorials, with more planned in the future:</p> +<ul> +<li><a href="/docs/gb101.html">Genome Browser 101</a>: A basic introduction to the most common +UCSC Genome Browser usage, the tracks display</li> +<li><a href="/docs/gatewayTutorial.html">Gateway Page:</a> Learn how best to use the Gateway page +to find assemblies and download shortcuts</li> +<li><a href="/docs/tableBrowserTutorial.html">Table Browser:</a> Learn to extract Genome Browser +data sets and configure the outputs</li> +</ul> +<p> +We would also like to remind everyone of our <a href="/training/index.html">training page</a> +and <a href="/training/education/index.html">education modules</a>, which use +the Genome Browser to teach various topics on genomics and molecular biology.</p> +<p> +We would like to thank Matthew Speir, Max Haeussler, Jairo Navarro, Gerardo Perez +and Lou Nassar for the creating these tutorials.</p> + <a name="062425"></a> <h2>June 24, 2025 New GENCODE gene tracks: Human V48 (hg19/hg38) - Mouse M37 (mm39)</h2> <p> We are happy to announce new GENCODE Gene annotation tracks, which correspond to <a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2025/05/07/ensembl-114-has-been-released/" target="_blank">Ensembl 114</a>, for three assemblies: <a target="_blank" href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=wgEncodeGencodeV48lift37&position=default">hg19/GRCh37</a>, <a target="_blank" href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=wgEncodeGencodeV48&position=default">hg38/GRCh38</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&g=wgEncodeGencodeVM37&position=default">mm39/GRCm39</a>. For human, the GENCODE V48 annotations were mapped to hg38/GRCh38 and then back-mapped to the hg19/GRCh37 assembly. For all three assemblies, the gene sets contain the following tracks:</p> <ul> <li><b>Basic</b> - a subset of the <em>Comprehensive set</em>.</li>