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.ra src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg38/knownGene.ra
index df1f68c0019..1c79fa8ce61 100644
--- src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg38/knownGene.ra
+++ src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg38/knownGene.ra
@@ -1,61 +1,61 @@
 track knownGene
 table knownGene
-shortLabel GENCODE V49
-longLabel GENCODE V49
+shortLabel GENCODE V50
+longLabel GENCODE V50
 #parent knownGeneArchive
 priority 1
 #priority 5
 visibility pack
 type bigGenePred knownGenePep knownGeneMrna
-bigDataUrl /gbdb/hg38/gencode/gencodeV49.bb
+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 knownGeneV49
+#externalDb knownGeneV50
 maxItems 50000
-html knownGeneV49
+html knownGeneV50
 searchIndex name
 idXref kgAlias kgID alias
 intronGap 12
 hgsid on
 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
 
 # Note: Planning to remove the Previous track now that we have the Archive track set
 #track knownGeneOldV45
 #shortLabel Old UCSC Genes
 #longLabel Previous Version of UCSC Genes
 #group genes
 #visibility hide
 #color 82,82,160
 #type genePred
 #hgsid on
 #oldToNew kgV45ToKgV46
 #baseColorUseCds given
 #baseColorDefault genomicCodons
 
 searchName knownGeneFast
 searchTable knownGene
 searchType knownGeneFast
 shortCircuit 1
 searchPriority 1001
-searchTrix /gbdb/hg38/knownGeneFastV49.ix
+searchTrix /gbdb/hg38/knownGeneFastV50.ix
 searchTrixContext on
 doPage 1