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  Thu Mar 6 14:27:46 2025 -0800
Announcing the release of the MITOMAP track, refs #24849

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+<h2>Mar. 06, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; New MITOMAP track for hg38 and hg19</h2>
+<p>
+We are pleased to announce the release of the MITOMAP track for the
+<a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chrM&g=mitoMap">hg38/GRCh38</a>
+and <a target="_blank"
+href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&c=chrMT&g=mitoMap">hg19/GRCh37</a> human assemblies.
+<a target="_blank" href="https://www.mitomap.org/foswiki/bin/view/MITOMAP/WebHome">MITOMAP</a>
+is a database of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation, allowing users to look up human
+mitochondrial gene loci, search public mitochondrial sequences, and browse or search for reported
+nucleotide variants in both the general population and clinical disease studies.
+</p>
+<p>
+This release includes two tracks within the MITOMAP composite track:
+</p>
+<ul>
+  <li><b>MITOMAP Control and Coding Variants</b> &ndash; Contains variants, including mini
+	  insertions and deletions, in the complete mtDNA. The item colors correspond to the variant
+	  type: 
+	  <b><font color="#53AF01">control region</font></b>
+	  vs. <b><font color="#3E89D3">coding region</font></b>
+  <li><b>MITOMAP Disease Mutations</b> &ndash; Contains disease-annotated mutations (variants) in
+	  the complete mtDNA. The item colors correspond to the variant type:
+          <b><font color="##015587">coding/control</font></b> 
+	  vs.<b><font color="#9933FF">rRNA/tRNA</font></b>
+</ul>
+<div class="text-center">
+  <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/s/gperez2/MITOMAP" target="_blank">
+  <img src="../images/newsArchImages/mitoMap_MT_TL1.jpg" alt="hg38 session
+  visualizing the MITOMAP track" width='60%'></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+More information on this composite track can be found on the
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chrM&g=mitoMap#TRACK_HTML" target="_blank">track description</a>
+page.
+</p>
+<p>
+We would like to thank Shiping Zhang and the entire MITOMAP resource for making these annotations
+available. We would also like to thank Max Haeussler, Luis Nassar, and Gerardo Perez for their
+efforts on this release.
+</p>
+
+
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 <h2>Mar. 05, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Splicing Impact Prediction Scores super track (hg19/hg38) and SpliceVarDB track for hg38</h2>
 <p>
 We are excited to announce the new Splicing Impact Prediction Scores and Databases super track for
 the
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=spliceImpactSuper&position=default">hg38/GRCh38</a>
 and <a target="_blank"
 href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=spliceImpactSuper&position=default">hg19/GRCh37</a> human assemblies.
 This super track includes the 
 <a target="_blank" href="newsarch.html#042524">AbSplice Scores</a>,
 <a target="_blank" href="newsarch.html#081224">SpliceAI</a>, and, for hg38, the new
 <a target="_blank"
 href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=spliceVarDb&position=default">SpliceVarDB track</a>.
 <a target="_blank" href="https://splicevardb.org/">SpliceVarDB</a>
 is an online database consolidating over 50,000 variants assayed for their effects on