d10aba5d8ac8abc3655c599b9e421538a8a7e32e
lrnassar
  Wed Jul 22 10:56:04 2026 -0700
Releasing GENCODE V50 knownGene tracks for hg38, hg19 (V50lift37), and mm39 (VM39).

Promote knownGene from the alpha-gated staging file to the released trackDb: bump
shortLabel/longLabel, bigDataUrl, html, and searchTrix to the new version; collapse the
include to a single untagged knownGene.ra; and remove the knownGene.alpha.ra files.
refs #37395 #37393 #37391

diff --git src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg38/knownGene.alpha.ra src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg38/knownGene.alpha.ra
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c4414ba2ef..00000000000
--- src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg38/knownGene.alpha.ra
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-track knownGene
-table knownGene
-shortLabel GENCODE V50
-longLabel GENCODE V50
-#parent knownGeneArchive
-priority 1
-#priority 5
-visibility pack
-type bigGenePred knownGenePep knownGeneMrna
-bigDataUrl /gbdb/hg38/gencode/gencodeV50.bb
-downloadUrl.1 "GFF Format" https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/genes/hg38.knownGene.gtf.gz
-baseColorDefault genomicCodons
-group genes
-isGencode3 on
-directUrl /cgi-bin/hgGene?hgg_gene=%s&hgg_chrom=%s&hgg_start=%d&hgg_end=%d&hgg_type=%s&db=%s
-labelFields geneName,name,geneName2,name2
-defaultLabelFields geneName
-itemRgb on
-#externalDb knownGeneV50
-maxItems 50000
-html knownGeneV50
-searchIndex name
-idXref kgAlias kgID alias
-intronGap 12
-defaultLinkedTables kgXref
-squishyPackPoint 1
-squishyPackField rank
-squishyPackLabel Number of transcripts shown at full height (ranked by <A href="#squishyPack">GENCODE transcript ranking</A>)
-
-searchName knownGeneAcc
-searchTable knownGene
-searchMethod exact
-searchType knownGene
-shortCircuit 1
-semiShortCircuit 1
-termRegex ENST[0-9.]+
-searchPriority 9
-
-searchName knownGeneFast
-searchTable knownGene
-searchType knownGeneFast
-shortCircuit 1
-searchPriority 1001
-searchTrix /gbdb/hg38/knownGeneFastV50.ix
-searchTrixContext on
-doPage 1
-