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+ + ++We are pleased to announce the release of the +SpliceAI Wildtype tracks for hg38, available in the +Splicing Impact superTrack. +These tracks show the scores for the genome sequence itself, without variants, from predicted +splice donor (5' intron boundaries) and splice acceptor (3' intron boundaries) sites. Predictions +are strand-specific, with separate subtracks for the plus and minus strands. +
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+These tracks are useful in combination with the variants track for evaluating new transcript +models. They can be used to assess potential exon boundaries or possible splice acceptor sites.
++We would like to thank Illumina for making SpliceAI available, both the model and the precomputed +data files. Thanks to Francois Lecoquierre from the University of Oxford, Jean-Madeleine de Sainte +Agathe from Institut Pasteur Paris, and Michael Hiller from the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt for +suggesting and then creating the SpliceAI Wildtype annotations. We would also like to thank Max +Haeussler and Gerardo Perez for their efforts on this release.
+We are happy to announce the release of the Panmask Easy 151b Regions track for hg38. This new track is available in the Problematic Regions superTrack. The track contains a set of sample-agnostic easy regions where short-read variant calling reaches high accuracy. Easy regions are derived for variant filtration agnostic to individual samples. They are genomic intervals where general variant callers achieve high accuracy without sophisticated filtering.