2f270790e0c543b935be5159bf78c1209a5469bd lrnassar Mon Jul 7 14:27:44 2025 -0700 Announcing 25 year anniversary, refs #35980 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html index 9cbc3bcbdc7..625cc38ce62 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html @@ -52,30 +52,60 @@ <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> <!-- ============= 2025 archived news ============= --> <a name="2025"></a> +<a name="070725"></a> +<h2>July 7, 2025 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> + <a name="062625"></a> <h2>June 26, 2025 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>