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 <p>You can sign-up to get these announcements via our 
 <a target=_blank href="https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/g/genome-announce?hl=en">Genome-announce</a>
 email list. We send around one short announcement email every two weeks.</p>
 
 <p>Smaller software changes are not announced here.  A summary of the three-weekly release changes can be 
 found <a target=_blank href="https://genecats.gi.ucsc.edu/builds/versions.html">here</a>. 
 For the full list of our daily code changes head to our <a
 href="https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/commits/master"
 target=_blank>GitHub page</a>. Lastly, see our <a href="credits.html" target="_blank">
 credits page</a> for acknowledgments of the data we host.</p>
 
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+<h2>July 7, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; UCSC Genome Browser turns 25</h2>
+<p>
+July 7th marks the 25th anniversary of the UCSC Genome Browser. Our visualization journey 
+began when Jim Kent wrote the <a href = "https://hgwdev-hiram.gi.ucsc.edu/intronerator/index.html"
+target="_blank">Intronerator</a>, which displayed regions of C. elegans. This was the 
+foundation for the UCSC Genome Browser as we know it now, and decades later, we are 
+proud to continue serving our ever-growing users.<br><br>
+So, how has the Browser evolved over the years?
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li>We now have <b>165k</b> monthly users and <b>1.5M</b> users per year
+<li>The project is now comprised of <b>three million lines of code</b>
+<li>We have responded to over <b>15k</b> mailing questions from our users
+<li>The Genome Browser’s data exchange formats, like bigBed and track hubs 
+have become industry standards, allowing other software like IGV to build their tooling upon our data
+</ul>
+
+<div class="text-center">
+  <img src="../images/ucscGenomeBrowser2003Database.png" alt="Example screenshot from 2003 UCSC Genome Browser"
+width="50%">
+</div>
+
+<p>
+With user growth each year, the Genome Browser has continued to become more critically 
+important to research with time. A recent <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02034-7"
+target="_blank">Nature article</a> shared some examples from 
+users of the Genome Browser for the 25 year anniversary. See our <a href="/goldenPath/history.html"
+target="_blank">history page</a> if you would like to learn more about the project's past.</p>
+
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 <h2>June 26, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browser tutorials</h2>
 <p>
 We have a new training page, <a href="/docs/">Genome Browser Tutorials</a>, that consists of independent 
 tutorials covering some of our most popular tools. Each tutorial is comprised of three parts:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>An annotated screenshot identifying the important elements on the page</li>
 <li>A guided walkthrough that leads you through the steps to learn the material</li>
 <li>An interactive tutorial that redirects you to the tool and highlights elements on your screen 
 while explaining each step</li></ul>
 <p>
 The page contains three tutorials, with more planned in the future:</p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="/docs/gb101.html">Genome Browser 101</a>: A basic introduction to the most common 
 UCSC Genome Browser usage, the tracks display</li>