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jnavarr5
  Wed May 21 16:32:09 2025 -0700
Announcing the Varaico track for hg38 and hg19, refs #34595

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+<a name="052125"></a>
+<h2>May 21, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; Varaico variants track available for human (hg38 &amp; hg19)</h2>
+<p>
+We are happy to announce the release of the Varaico variants track for human assemblies
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=varaico" target="_blank">hg38/GRCh38</a> and
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=varaico" target="_blank">hg19/GRCh37</a>. Varaico stands for
+&quot;<b>Va</b>riation <b>R</b>esearch <b>A</b>dvancing <b>I</b>nsight in <b>C</b>omplex
+<b>O</b>rganisms&quot;. was created using literature mining in a fashion similar to AVADA.
+</p>
+<p>
+Varaico variants are generated by an automated process that extracts purely factual information from
+scientific papers about genes (by matching strings against gene names) and HGVS variant descriptions
+(using regular expressions). Varaico aims to reduce false positive gene and variant mentions, and
+aims to link them together appropriately, but nonetheless, many variants displayed are not mapped to
+the genomic position intended by the authors.</p>
+<p>
+  Mouse-over the variants to show the gene, variant, latest author/year/title, number of
+  publications mentioning the variant, and variant effect.
+  Varaico variants may or may not be disease-causing.</p>
+<div class="text-center">
+  <img src="../images/newsArchImages/Varaico.png" width="80%">
+  <p class="gbsCaption">
+  <em>Mouse-over is shown for the orange item (BRCA1 c.4136_4137del).</em>
+  </p>
+</div>
+<p>
+We would like to thank Johannes Birgmeier for generating and making the Varaico data available. We
+would also like to thank Maximilian Haeussler and Jairo Navarro Gonzalez for creating and releasing
+these tracks. 
+</p>
+
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 <h2>May 19, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; New GENCODE &quot;knownGene&quot; V48 for human (hg38/hg19) and VM37
 for mouse (mm39)</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of the GENCODE Genes V48 for human
 (<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=knownGene">hg38/GRCh38</a> &amp;
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&position=default&g=knownGene">hg19/GRCh37</a>)
 and the GENCODE Genes VM37 for mouse
 (<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm39&position=default&g=knownGene">mm39/GRCm39</a>).
 The GENCODE &quot;knownGene&quot; V48 and VM37 gene tracks were built using a UCSC
 pipeline (knownGene) and the GENCODE comprehensive gene set to generate high-quality manual
 annotations merged with evidence-based automated annotations. The GENCODE &quot;knownGene&quot;
 tracks are our default gene tracks, which have extensive associations to external sources. This
 allows for additional metadata on every item as well as external links. The track description
 pages contain options for configuring the display, such as showing non-coding genes, splice