83b0f7d4e2913e2f42f2f822c8e933872591f36d gperez2 Wed Feb 18 15:27:21 2026 -0800 Announcing the JASPAR 2026 tracks, refs #36264 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html index e4030897a99..f6493091b68 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html @@ -52,30 +52,64 @@ <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="2026"></a> +<a name="021826"></a> +<h2>Feb. 18, 2026 JASPAR 2026 tracks for 8 assemblies</h2> +<p> +We are happy to announce the release of the JASPAR 2026 tracks for +<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=jaspar" target="_blank">hg38</a>, +<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&g=jaspar" target="_blank">mm39</a>, +<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=danRer11&g=jaspar" target="_blank">danRer11</a>, +<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=galGal6&g=jaspar" target="_blank">galGal6</a>, +<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=dm6&g=jaspar" target="_blank">dm6</a>, +<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=ce11&g=jaspar" target="_blank">ce11</a>, +<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=ci3&g=jaspar" target="_blank">ci3</a>, and +<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=ci3&g=jaspar" target="_blank">sacCer3</a>. +These tracks represent genome-wide predicted binding sites for transcription factors with binding +profiles in the +<a href="https://jaspar.elixir.no/about/" target="_blank">JASPAR CORE collection</a>. +JASPAR is a regularly maintained open-access database that stores manually curated transcription +factor (TF) binding profiles as position frequency matrices (PFMs). +</p> +<p> +The JASPAR 2026 update expanded the JASPAR CORE collection by 12% (306 added or upgraded profiles), +culminating in a set of 2,633 non-redundant TF binding profiles. Genome sequences were scanned with +JASPAR 2026 CORE TF binding profiles for each taxon independently using PWMScan. For more +information, see the <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=jaspar#TRACK_HTML" +target="_blank">track description page</a>. +</p> +<p> +The JASPAR database is a joint effort among several labs (please see the latest +<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1209" target="_blank">JASPAR paper</a>). Binding site +predictions and UCSC tracks were computed by the +<a href="https://mathelierlab.com/" target="_blank">CBGR team</a> at NCMBM using code developed at +the Wasserman Lab. We would like to thank Luis Nassar and Gerardo Perez for their efforts on this +release. +</p> + <a name="020926"></a> <h2>Feb. 09, 2026 Phased variants track for human (hg38 and hg19)</h2> <p> We are pleased to announce the release of the Phased Variants container track for <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=phasedVars">hg38/GRCh38</a> and <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&position=default&g=phasedVars">hg19/GRCh19</a>. This new track brings together phased individual-level genotype data from four projects: Human Diversity Genome Project, Simons Genome Diversity Project, gnomad's HGDP+1000 Genomes callset, and the Mexico Biobank. </p> <p> The Phased Variants track includes the following subtracks: </p>