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Changes to slide decks based on CR; Adding reveal.js to source tree, rather than using CDN, refs #37874 #37904

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 title: "UCSC Genome Browser Slide Decks"
 ---
 
 This page collects training slides for the UCSC Genome Browser. Each slide deck
 has been curated with a specific purpose, from basic navigation to interpreting
 clinical variants. They are self-contained web decks: open one in any browser,
 present it full-screen (press <kbd>F</kbd>), read the presenter notes
-(press <kbd>S</kbd>), or jump to any slide from its **Contents** page. Feel free
-to use them in your courses or local trainings.
+(press <kbd>S</kbd>, which opens them in a separate browser tab; close that tab
+when you are done with them), or jump to any slide from its **Contents** page.
+Feel free to use them in your courses or local trainings.
 [Contact us](/contacts.html) to suggest new slide decks or improvements to the
 current ones.
 
 ## Deck 1: UCSC Genome Browser Basics
 
 Basic features and navigation of the
 [main genome browser display](/cgi-bin/hgTracks): configuring tracks and display
-modes, reading the gene model, the track groups, viewing and extracting DNA, the
-Table Browser, aligning sequences with BLAT, and loading your own data as custom
-tracks, track hubs, and sessions.
+modes, reading the gene model, browsing the track groups, viewing and extracting
+DNA, querying the Table Browser, aligning sequences with BLAT, and loading your
+own data as custom tracks, track hubs, and sessions.
 
 **[&#9654; Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial1-basics/presentation/)**
 &nbsp;·&nbsp; [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial1-basics/tableOfContents/)
 
 <br>
 <iframe src="/docs/slideDecks/tutorial1-basics/presentation/" width="720" height="450" style="max-width:100%;border:1px solid #ccc;border-radius:6px;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" title="Deck 1: UCSC Genome Browser Basics"></iframe>
 
 ## Deck 2: Cancer Data in the Genome Browser
 
 An overview of the cancer and clinical databases hosted by the Genome Browser,
-organized by **somatic** and **germline** diagnosis and worked on the
-<em>BRAF</em> V600E example: CIViC, COSMIC, ClinVar, and TCGA Pan-Cancer for
-somatic variants, and GenCC, OMIM, and gnomAD for germline questions.
+organized by **somatic** and **germline** diagnosis CIViC, COSMIC, ClinVar, and TCGA
+Pan-Cancer for somatic variants, and GenCC, OMIM, and gnomAD for germline
+questions. These databases are explored with a consistent <em>BRAF</em> V600E example throughout.
 
 **[&#9654; Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial2-cancer/presentation/)**
 &nbsp;·&nbsp; [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial2-cancer/tableOfContents/)
 
 <br>
 <iframe src="/docs/slideDecks/tutorial2-cancer/presentation/" width="720" height="450" style="max-width:100%;border:1px solid #ccc;border-radius:6px;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" title="Deck 2: Cancer Data in the Genome Browser"></iframe>
 
 ## Deck 3: Clinical Examples & Variant Interpretation
 
 How to interpret a variant end to end: the **Recommended Track Sets**, the
 regulatory and epigenetic context that non-coding variants need, worked germline
 (<em>BRCA2</em>) and somatic (<em>BRAF</em> V600E) examples, expression, and AI
 predictors such as AlphaMissense and SpliceAI.
 
 **[&#9654; Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial3-clinical/presentation/)**
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 non-coding and regulatory variants, structural variants (CNVs), and repeat
 expansions.
 
 **[&#9654; Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial4-clinical-cases/presentation/)**
 &nbsp;·&nbsp; [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial4-clinical-cases/tableOfContents/)
 
 <br>
 <iframe src="/docs/slideDecks/tutorial4-clinical-cases/presentation/" width="720" height="450" style="max-width:100%;border:1px solid #ccc;border-radius:6px;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" title="Deck 4: Clinical Case Studies"></iframe>
 
 ## Deck 5: Teaching with the Browser
 
 Ready-made, interactive teaching modules from our
 [Education portal](/training/education/): the central dogma (reading frames,
 codons, splicing), variant effects (synonymous, missense, nonsense, frameshift),
 and real disease and evolution case studies. Each module is a clickable session
-plus a short page, ready to drop into a lecture or assignment.
+plus a short description of that session and what it shows, ready to drop into a lecture or assignment.
 
 **[&#9654; Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial5-teaching/presentation/)**
 &nbsp;·&nbsp; [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial5-teaching/tableOfContents/)
 
 <br>
 <iframe src="/docs/slideDecks/tutorial5-teaching/presentation/" width="720" height="450" style="max-width:100%;border:1px solid #ccc;border-radius:6px;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true" title="Deck 5: Teaching with the Browser"></iframe>