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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/human/hg18/phyloPCons28way.html src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg18/phyloPCons28way.html
index c9d00efc805..816b73de33f 100644
--- src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg18/phyloPCons28way.html
+++ src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/hg18/phyloPCons28way.html
@@ -71,30 +71,46 @@
vertebrate tree model for this track was
generated using the phyloFit program from the PHAST package
(REV model, EM algorithm, medium precision) using multiple alignments of
4-fold degenerate sites extracted from the 28way alignment
(msa_view). The 4d sites were derived from the
Oct 2005 Gencode Reference Gene set,
which was filtered to select single-coverage long transcripts. A second,
mammalian tree model including only placental mammals was used
to generate the placental mammal conservation scoring.
+Data Access
+
+The conservation scores can be retrieved for a single region or for a list of regions with the
+Table
+Browser, and joined with other annotations in the Data
+Integrator. For automated access, they are also served by our REST API.
+
+
+The files behind this track can be downloaded from our download server:
+
+
+
Credits
This track was created using phyloP, phyloFit, and other programs in PHAST by
Adam Siepel's group at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (original development
done at the Haussler lab at UCSC).
The phylogenetic tree is based on Murphy et al. (2001) and general
consensus in the vertebrate phylogeny community as of March 2007.
References
Siepel A, Pollard KS, Haussler D.
New methods for detecting lineage-specific selection.