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  Fri Nov 14 18:53:15 2025 -0800
Releasing and announcing the Varaico tracks, refs #36612

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+<h2>Nov. 14, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Varaico Variants track and new Varaico Variants (suppl) track</h2>
+<p>
+We are pleased to announce the release 2 of the <b>Varaico Variants track</b> and the addition of a new
+<b>Varaico Variants (suppl) track</b> for the human assemblies
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=varsInPubs"
+        target="_blank">hg38/GRCh38</a> and
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&position=default&g=varsInPubs"
+        target="_blank">hg19/GRCh37</a>. The Varaico tracks are generated using literature mining
+methods similar to those used for the <a href="http://bejerano.stanford.edu/AVADA/"
+        target="_blank">AVADA</a>
+resource. With this update, the Varaico Variants track
+now contains more than 5.5 million variants.</p>
+<p>
+The Varaico Variants (suppl) track shows variants extracted from supplementary data files using
+similar methods to those used for the primary Varaico track..</p>
+<div class="text-center">
+<img src="../../images/newsArchImages/varaicoRelease2.png" width='80%'></a>
+</div>
+<p>
+For more information, please visit the <a href="https://varaico.com/"
+	target="_blank">Varaico website</a>.</p>
+<p>
+We would like to thank Johannes Birgmeier for generating and making the Varaico data available.
+We would also like to thank Maximilian Haeussler, Jairo Navarro Gonzalez, and Gerardo Perez for
+creating and releasing these tracks.</p>
+
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 <h2>Oct. 31, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; New GENCODE &quot;knownGene&quot; V49 for human (hg38/hg19) and VM38
 for mouse (mm39)</h2>
 
 <p>
 We are happy to announce the new GENCODE gene annotation tracks, corresponding to
 <a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2025/09/02/ensembl-115-has-been-released/"
 target="_blank">Ensembl release 115</a>, along with GENCODE knownGene V49 for human
 (<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=knownGene">hg38/GRCh38</a>
 and
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&position=default&g=knownGene">hg19/GRCh37</a>)
 and GENCODE knownGene VM38 for mouse
 (<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&position=default&g=knownGene">mm39/GRCm39</a>).
 The GENCODE &quot;knownGene&quot; V49 and VM38 tracks were built using the UCSC knownGene pipeline and the
 GENCODE comprehensive gene set to generate high-quality manual annotations merged with