7e9195767501a6492dce8ecddc1a6d28d1980baf jnavarr5 Tue Sep 1 16:04:49 2026 -0700 Making slight edits to the bigCompositeUI announcement, refs #36320 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html index 50eb0f50328..78228ada2b5 100644 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html @@ -57,39 +57,38 @@ 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> <!-- ============= 2026 archived news ============= --> <a name="2026"></a> <a name="090126"></a> <h2>Sep. 1, 2026 New faceted interface for large composite tracks</h2> <p> We are pleased to announce <a href="/docs/hubs/facetedComposite.html" target="_blank">faceted composites</a>, a new -interface for composite tracks that hold very large numbers of subtracks. The standard -composite works well for somewhere between 20 and 50 subtracks, but it becomes unwieldy -once the count runs into the hundreds to thousands. A faceted composite is an alternative -display for those cases: facets along the left side filter the collection while a -paginated table on the right lists the subtracks that match, letting users narrow -thousands of entries down to the handful relevant to their work. The individual-experiment -tracks in the ENCODE4 Regulation collection, <a href="#072226">announced in July 2026</a>, -already use this interface. Faceted composites are configured entirely through trackDb -settings, so any hub developer can build one. +interface for composite tracks that hold very large numbers of subtracks. The standard composite +works well for about 20 to 50 subtracks, but it becomes unwieldy once the count reaches the +hundreds or thousands. A faceted composite is an alternative display for those cases: facets along +the left side filter the collection, while a paginated table on the right lists the matching +subtracks, letting users narrow thousands of entries down to the handful relevant to their work. +The individual-experiment tracks in the ENCODE4 Regulation collection, +<a href="#072226">announced in July 2026</a>, already use this interface. Faceted composites are +configured entirely through trackDb settings, so any hub developer can build one. </p> <div class="text-center" style="margin-top: 1.5em;"> <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=wgEncodeReg4Epigenetics" target="_blank"> <img alt="Faceted composite interface showing facets, search boxes, and a paginated subtrack table" src="/images/newsArchImages/facetedComposite.png" width='75%'></a> <p class="gbsCaption"><em>The faceted composite interface on the ENCODE4 DNase/ATAC/Histone/CTCF (Indiv.) track. Facets on the left filter the 6,353 subtracks, and the table lists those that match.</em></p> </div> <p> A faceted composite otherwise behaves like an ordinary composite, with two differences: </p> <ul> @@ -121,35 +120,35 @@ <p> Two optional settings extend the interface: </p> <ul> <li><code>dataTypes</code> – groups several files per sample, so a single row of the subtrack table can turn on a signal track and a peak track together</li> <li><code>subtrackUrls</code> – turns metadata values into links, which is useful for accession numbers or protocol identifiers</li> </ul> <p> Our new <a href="/docs/hubs/facetedComposite.html" target="_blank">Faceted Composite Tracks</a> documentation page walks through building one, with an <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&position=chr7:155799529-155812871&hubUrl=https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/examples/hubExamples/hubFacetedComposite/hub.txt" -target="_blank">example hub</a> that can be loaded directly into the browser. The complete -reference for each setting lives in our +target="_blank">example hub</a> you can load directly in the browser. The complete reference for +each setting lives in our <a href="/goldenPath/help/trackDb/trackDbHub.html#faceted_composite" target="_blank">trackDb -documentation</a>, and our <a href="/docs/hubs/hubBasics.html" target="_blank">Hub -Basics</a> page is a good starting point if you are new to building hubs. +documentation</a>, and our <a href="/docs/hubs/hubBasics.html" target="_blank">Hub Basics</a> page +is a good starting point if you are new to building hubs. </p> <p> We would like to thank Andrew Smith at the University of Southern California, who contributed the original implementation of this interface, and Jonathan Casper, who developed it into the version released at the UCSC Genome Browser. We also thank Lou Nassar, Gerardo Perez, Clay Fischer, Brian Raney, Max Haeussler, and Jairo Navarro for testing, feedback, and documentation. </p> <a name="082826"></a> <h2>Aug. 28, 2026 Deleteriousness Predictions: EVE and popEVE for hg38</h2> <p> We are pleased to announce the release of two new proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction tracks for hg38: