97805fb2ceb73357aa78aa94107148dc355d4e1c
mspeir
Tue Sep 22 08:36:22 2026 -0700
Conservation tracks: give the description pages a real Data Access section, refs #34803
The hgdownload link block on these pages had no header, and on 18 of them it sat
above the Description, which is where it got overlooked. Move it into an
Data Access
in the usual place, after Methods and before Credits, and
add pointers to the Table Browser, the Data Integrator and the REST API, plus
the maf* and bigWig* command line tools.
134 pages: 55 had a download block that was moved and labeled, 56 get a list
built from hgdownload directories that were checked to exist, 21 have no
download directory of their own and so get the Table Browser and API pointers
only, and 2 already had a Data Access section that was reworked. Existing
download lists are unchanged apart from http -> https and an added
target="_blank".
Wording follows what each track actually holds, so the alignment-only pages do
not claim conservation scores and the Data Integrator is only mentioned where it
can really be used, since it does not handle MAF.
Also corrects one link: hg18 cons44way pointed at multiz44way/maf, which
redirects; it is now multiz44way/maf/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context)
diff --git src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/ebola/bunEbo1/cons160way.html src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/ebola/bunEbo1/cons160way.html
index 4cfc30821e4..b779e4d487b 100644
--- src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/ebola/bunEbo1/cons160way.html
+++ src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/ebola/bunEbo1/cons160way.html
@@ -100,30 +100,42 @@
G3809_2014) EM124v4_2014) EM095B_2014) G3789v1_2014) G3805v1_2014)
G3765v2_2014) G3816_2014) G3750v2_2014) G3805v2_2014) EM098_2014) G3850_2014)
G3750v3_2014) NM042v2_2014) NM042v3_2014) G3687v1_2014) Reston_PA_1990)
Pennsylvania_1990) reconstructReston_2008) Reston08-A_2008)
Alice_TX_USA_MkCQ8167_1996) Reston09-A_2009) Reston_1996) Reston08-E_2008)
Reston08-C_2008) Nakisamata_2011) Gulu_Uganda_2000) Gulu_2000) EboSud-603_2012)
EboSud-609_2012) EboSud-602_2012) EboSud-682_2012) EboSud-639_2012) Maleo_1979)
Bundibugyo_Uganda_2007) Bundibugyo_2007) EboBund-120_2012) EboBund-122_2012)
EboBund-112_2012) EboBund-14_2012) Cote_dIvoire_CIEBOV_1994) Cote_dIvoire_1994)
Yambio_2004) Boniface_1976) Marburg_KitumCave_Kenya_1987)
Marburg_MtElgon_Musoke_Kenya_1980)
Framing tables from the genes were constructed to enable
visualization of codons in the multiple alignment display.
+Data Access
+
+The alignments and the conservation scores can be retrieved for a single region or for a list of
+regions with the Table Browser,
+which returns the alignments in MAF format and the scores as wiggle data. The conservation
+scores, though not the alignments, can also be joined with other annotations in the Data Integrator. For automated access, our REST API serves the alignment and conservation tracks
+individually, by name.
+
+
Credits
This track was created using the following programs:
- Alignment tools: blastz and multiz by Minmei Hou, Scott Schwartz and Webb
Miller of the Penn State Bioinformatics Group
- Chaining and Netting: axtChain, chainNet by Jim Kent at UCSC
- Conservation scoring: phastCons, phyloP, phyloFit, tree_doctor, msa_view and
other programs in PHAST by
Adam Siepel at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (original development
done at the Haussler lab at UCSC).
- MAF Annotation tools: mafAddIRows by Brian Raney, UCSC; mafAddQRows
by Richard Burhans, Penn State; genePredToMafFrames by Mark Diekhans, UCSC
- Tree image generator: phyloPng by Galt Barber, UCSC