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DANIO-CODE as native danRer11 tracks, alpha only.

Converts the DANIO-CODE consortium's public track hub for danRer11 into a
native trackDb: 897 stanzas under one superTrack, with 11 containers for
RNA-seq, CAGE-seq, ChIP-seq, 3P-seq, Hi-C, regulatory elements, cell types,
COPEs/DOPEs, validated enhancers, conservation and consensus promoters.

The 879 data files, 69 GB, are mirrored under /gbdb/danRer11/danioCode and are
byte-identical to the consortium's copies. Four cell-type subtracks are left
out because their files 404 on the consortium's server.

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+<h2>Description</h2>
+
+<p>
+A candidate enhancer predicted from chromatin data is a hypothesis until it is tested.
+The usual test in zebrafish is a transgenic reporter assay: the candidate sequence is
+placed in front of a minimal promoter driving a fluorescent protein, the construct is
+injected into embryos, and the embryos are examined for fluorescence. If the sequence
+is an enhancer, the fluorescence appears in a specific tissue at a specific stage.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This track shows 246 zebrafish enhancers that have been validated this way and that the
+DANIO-CODE consortium collected from the published literature into one curated
+catalogue. The consortium used them as an independent check on its own predictions, and
+they fall predominantly on elements that the chromatin data had classified as
+enhancers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This track is part of the <a href="hgTrackUi?g=danioCode">DANIO-CODE</a> collection.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Display Conventions and Configuration</h2>
+
+<p>
+Enhancers are drawn as blocks, in the colors stored in the data file.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Methods</h2>
+
+<p>
+The DANIO-CODE consortium assembled 1,802 zebrafish developmental genomics datasets,
+1,438 of them already published and 366 generated by consortium members, and
+reprocessed all of them from the raw sequencing reads so that samples from different
+laboratories and different protocols can be compared with each other. ChIP-seq and
+ATAC-seq were run through the ENCODE pipelines, CAGE-seq through the FANTOM pipeline,
+and Hi-C and 4C-seq through the pipelines of the groups that produced them. The
+pipelines are published at
+<a href="https://gitlab.com/danio-code" target="_blank">gitlab.com/danio-code</a>, and
+samples were assigned to developmental stages using ZFIN and ENCODE nomenclature. See
+Baranasic <em>et al</em>. 2022 for details.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The catalogue was assembled by hand from published transgenic reporter experiments in
+zebrafish and mapped onto danRer11. It is Supplementary Table 10 of Baranasic
+<em>et al</em>. 2022.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At UCSC the tracks were converted from the consortium's public track hub at
+<a href="https://trackhub2.genereg.net/DANIO-CODE/DANIO-CODE.hub.txt" target="_blank">
+trackhub2.genereg.net/DANIO-CODE</a> with the script
+<a href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/tree/master/src/hg/makeDb/scripts/danioCode"
+target="_blank">danioCodeHubToRa.py</a>, and the data files were copied from the same
+server. The data themselves were not modified. The steps are documented in
+<a href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/blob/master/src/hg/makeDb/doc/danRer11/danioCode.txt"
+target="_blank">our makeDoc</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Data Access</h2>
+
+<p>
+The data can be explored interactively in table format with the
+<a href="../cgi-bin/hgTables">Table Browser</a> or the
+<a href="../cgi-bin/hgIntegrator">Data Integrator</a> and exported from there to
+spreadsheet or tab-separated tables. From scripts, the data can be accessed through
+our <a href="https://api.genome.ucsc.edu">API</a>, track=<i>dcEvalidation</i>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For automated download and analysis, the annotations are stored in bigBed files that
+can be downloaded from
+<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/danRer11/danioCode/" target="_blank">our
+download server</a>. The file is <tt>transgenic_danRer11.bb</tt>. Individual regions or the whole genome annotation can be
+obtained using our tool <tt>bigBedToBed</tt>, which can be compiled from the source code
+or downloaded as a precompiled 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 features within a given range, for example
+</p>
+<pre>bigBedToBed http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/danRer11/danioCode/transgenic_danRer11.bb \
+    -chrom=chr1 -start=1 -end=59578282 stdout</pre>
+
+<p>
+The original data files, and the sample and protocol metadata behind them, are
+available from the DANIO-CODE data coordination center at
+<a href="https://danio-code.zfin.org" target="_blank">danio-code.zfin.org</a> and from
+the consortium's track hub at
+<a href="https://trackhub2.genereg.net/DANIO-CODE/DANIO-CODE.hub.txt" target="_blank">
+trackhub2.genereg.net/DANIO-CODE</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Credits</h2>
+
+<p>
+Thanks to the DANIO-CODE consortium for collecting, reprocessing and publishing these
+data, and to the laboratories that produced the original datasets.
+</p>
+
+<h2>References</h2>
+Failed to fetch complete links from NCBI after 10 tries.  Try again later or just use the PubMed paper link.
+
+<p>
+Baranasic D, Hörtenhuber M, Balwierz PJ, Zehnder T, Mukarram AK, Nepal C, Várnai C, Hadzhiev Y,
+Jimenez-Gonzalez A, Li N <em>et al</em>.
+<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35789323" target="_blank">
+Multiomic atlas with functional stratification and developmental dynamics of zebrafish cis-
+regulatory elements</a>.
+<em>Nat Genet</em>. 2022 Jul;54(7):1037-1050.
+PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35789323" target="_blank">35789323</a>; PMC: <a
+href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9279159/" target="_blank">PMC9279159</a>
+</p>
+