d953601aa1ab7e04ad424f10ec36d7bbd2c8c34b
mspeir
  Sat Sep 5 17:13:58 2026 -0700
trackLists: say what the malacards table is actually for, refs #37781

The row read "which no track points at", which is true and misleading in the
same breath. hgGene's malaCardsSection joins the table against kgXref and
builds the MalaCards links on the gene details page, so a mirror that skips
the table loses that section. Nothing about the schedule or the hg38-only
load changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

diff --git src/hg/utils/otto/trackLists/collect.py src/hg/utils/otto/trackLists/collect.py
index 69ca533b99d..7236f217281 100755
--- src/hg/utils/otto/trackLists/collect.py
+++ src/hg/utils/otto/trackLists/collect.py
@@ -184,31 +184,32 @@
  "omim":("OMIM","track",["omim"]),
  "lovd":("LOVD","track",["lovd"]),
  "mitoMap":("MITOMAP","track",["mitoMap"]),
  "clinGen":("ClinGen","track",["clinGen"]),
  "varChat":("VarChat","track",["varChat"]),
  "vista":("VISTA Enhancers","track",["vistaEnhancers"]),
  "civic":("CIViC","track",["civic"]),
  "pubtatorDbSnp":("PubTator","track",["pubtator"]),
  "ncbiRefSeq":("NCBI RefSeq","track",["ncbiRefSeq"]),
  "uniprot":("UniProt","track",["unipFull","unipMut","uniprot"]),
  "grcIncidentDb":("GRC Incident","track",["grcIncident"]),
  "insight":("InSiGHT VCEP ClinVar","hub",
             "updates a hub rather than a trackDb track: insightClinVar and "
             "pms2clParalogVars, on hg19 and hg38"),
  "malacards":("MalaCards","table",
-              "loads the hg38 malacards table, which no track points at"),
+              "loads the hg38 malacards table; no track shows it, but the gene "
+              "details page uses it for the MalaCards disease links"),
  "refSeqHistorical":("RefSeq Historical","notifier",
                      "checks whether NCBI has a new release; changes no data"),
  "vcepVersions":("VCEP spec versions","notifier",
                  "compares our VCEP pages against the ClinGen registry"),
 }
 # commands the keyword match gets wrong or too coarse
 OVERRIDE = {
  "omimUploadWrapper": ("infrastructure",     "pushes the OMIM tables to hgwbeta"),
  "covidCheck":        ("UniProt (wuhCor1)",  "UniProt; Mutations on wuhCor1"),
  "clinGenCspec":      ("ClinGen CSpec",      "ClinGen VCEP Specifications"),
 }
 INFRA = ["readOnlyKentMirror","lastLog","ottoCompareGitVsHiveFiles","liftRequest",
          "GenArk","buildPublicSessionThumbnails","generateTipOfDay","cellBrowser",
          "cbAnnotServer","tabulate_facets","tsv_to_json","updateNewsSec","tusd",
          # this job itself: it writes a page, it does not touch track data, and a