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 <h2>Description</h2>
 <p>
-The
-<a target="_blank" href="https://panelapp.genomicsengland.co.uk/#!">Genomics England PanelApp</a>
-tracks show gene panels that are related to human disorders. Originally developed to
-aid interpretation of participant genomes in the
-<a href="https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/initiatives/100000-genomes-project"
-target="_blank">100,000 Genomes Project</a>, PanelApp is now also being used as the platform for
-achieving consensus on gene panels in the
-<a target="_blank" href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/genomics/nhs-genomic-med-service/">
-NHS Genomic Medicine Service (GMS)</a>.
-As panels in PanelApp are publicly available, they can also be used by other groups
-and projects. Panels are maintained and updated by
-<a target="_blank" href="https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/">Genomics England</a> curators.
+The PanelApp tracks show regions that are related to human disorders. These can be either
+genes, short tandem repeats or copy number variants. The regions were curated by groups of
+specialists collaborating using the PanelApp web tool. The primary website is <a target="_blank"
+href="https://panelapp.genomicsengland.co.uk/#!">Genomics England PanelApp</a>.
+Another deployment of the website, with different data, is 
+<a target=_blank href="https://panelapp-aus.org/">PanelApp Australia</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Originally, PanelApp was developed to aid interpretation of participant genomes in the
+<a href="https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/initiatives/100000-genomes-project" target="_blank">
+100,000 Genomes Project</a>, 
+<a target="_blank" href="https://panelapp.genomicsengland.co.uk/#!">Genomics England PanelApp</a> now being used as the platform for
+achieving consensus on gene panels in the <a target="_blank"
+    href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/genomics/nhs-genomic-med-service/"> NHS
+    Genomic Medicine Service (GMS)</a>. Later, the same platform was also deployed by
+<a target=_blank
+   href="https://www.australiangenomics.org.au/tools-and-resources/panelapp-australia/">Australian
+   Genomics</a>.
+</p>
+
 <p>
 <a href="https://panelapp.genomicsengland.co.uk/panels/entities/" target="_blank">Genes and genomic
-entities</a> (short tandem repeats/STRs and copy number variants/CNVs)
+entities</a>, so short tandem repeats/STRs and copy number variants/CNVs,
 have been reviewed by experts to enable a community consensus to be reached on which
 genes and genomic entities should appear on a <b>diagnostics grade panel</b> for each disorder.
 A <b>rating system</b> (confidence level 0 - 3) is used to classify the level of evidence
 supporting association with phenotypes covered by the gene panel in question.
 </p>
 <p>
-The available data tracks are: 
-</p>
+There are six subtracks in total: Three different types (genes, STRs and CNVs) and these 
+three exist for both countries, England and Australia. The three types of tracks are:</p>
 
 <ul>
   <li>
-    <b>Genomics England PanelApp Genes (PanelApp Genes):</b>
+    <b>PanelApp Genes (PanelApp Genes):</b>
     <br>
     shows genes with evidence supporting a gene-disease relationship.
     <p style="color:red">NOTE: Due to a bug in the PanelApp gene API, between 
        5 and 20% of gene entries are missing as of 11/2/22.</p>
 </li>
   <br>
   <li>
-    <b>Genomics England PanelApp STRs (PanelApp STRs):</b>
+    <b>PanelApp STRs (PanelApp STRs):</b>
     <br>
     shows short tandem repeats that can be disease-causing when a particular number of repeats is
     present.</li>
   <br>
   <li>
-    <b>Only on hg38: Genomics England PanelApp Regions (PanelApp CNV Regions):</b>
+    <b>Only on hg38: PanelApp Regions (PanelApp CNV Regions):</b>
     <br>
     shows copy-number variants (region-loss and region-gain) with evidence supporting a gene-disease
     relationship.</li>
 </ul>
 
+
 <h2>Display Conventions</h2>
 <p>
 The individual tracks are colored by <b>confidence level:</b>
 
 <ul>
 <li><b><font color="#32CD32">Score 3 (lime green)</font></b> - <b>High level of evidence</b> 
 for this gene-disease association. Demonstrates confidence that this gene should be 
 used for genome interpretation.</li>
 <li><b><font color="#FFBF00">Score 2 (amber)</font></b> - <b>Moderate evidence</b> 
 for this gene-disease association. This gene should not be used for genomic 
 interpretation.</li>
 <li><b><font color="red">Score 0 or 1 (red)</font></b> - <b>Not enough evidence</b> 
 for this gene-disease association. This gene should not be used for 
 genomic interpretation. </li>
 </ul>
@@ -88,47 +98,50 @@
 binary for your system. Instructions for downloading source code and binaries can be found
 <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#utilities_downloads">here</a>.
 The tool
 can also be used to obtain only features within a given range, e.g. 
 <tt>bigBedToBed http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/$db/panelApp/genes.bb -chrom=chr21 -start=0 -end=100000000 stdout</tt></p>
 
 <p>
 Please refer to our
 <a target="_blank" href="https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/forum/#!forum/genome">
 mailing list archives</a> for questions, or our
 <a target="_blank" href="/FAQ/FAQdownloads.html#downloads36">
 Data Access FAQ</a> for more information.
 </p>
 <p>
 Data is also freely available on the
-<a target="_blank" href="https://panelapp.genomicsengland.co.uk/#!API">PanelApp API</a>.
+<a target="_blank" href="https://panelapp.genomicsengland.co.uk/#!API">Genomics England PanelApp API</a>
+and the <a target=_blank href="https://panelapp-aus.org/api/docs/">Australia PanelApp API</a>.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Updates and archiving of old releases</h2>
 <p>
 This track is updated automatically every week. If you need to access older releases of the data,
 you can download them from our <a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/archive/$db/panelApp/">archive directory</a> on the download server. To load them into the browser, select a week on the archive directory, copy the link to a file, go to <a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgCustom">My Data &gt; Custom Tracks</a>, click "Add custom track", paste the link into the box and click "Submit".
 </p>
 
 <h2>Methods</h2>
 <p>
 PanelApp files were reformatted at UCSC to the <a target="_blank"
 href="/goldenPath/help/bigBed.html">bigBed</a> format. The script that updates the track is called 
 <tt>updatePanelApp</tt> and can be found in our <a href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/tree/master/src/hg/utils/otto/panelApp">Github repository</a>.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Credits</h2>
 <p>
 Thank you to Genomics England PanelApp, especially Catherine Snow for technical
-coordination and consultation. Thank you to Beagan Nguy, Christopher Lee, Daniel Schmelter,
-Ana Benet-Pag&egrave;s and Maximilian Haeussler of the Genome Browser team for the creation of the tracks.
+coordination and consultation, and Zornitza Stark from Australia PanelApp.
+Thanks to Beagan Nguy, Lou Nassar, Christopher Lee, Daniel Schmelter, Ana
+Benet-Pag&egrave;s and Maximilian Haeussler of the Genome Browser team for the
+creation of the tracks.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Reference</h2>
 <p>
     Martin AR, Williams E, Foulger RE, Leigh S, Daugherty LC, Niblock O, Leong IUS, Smith KR,
     Gerasimenko O, Haraldsdottir E <em>et al</em>.
     <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31676867" target="_blank">
     PanelApp crowdsources expert knowledge to establish consensus diagnostic gene panels</a>.
     <em>Nat Genet</em>. 2019 Nov;51(11):1560-1565.
     PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31676867" target="_blank">31676867</a>
 </p>