8a54e2bef64ddd7eab88d9e4a73b4fb7e331358c lrnassar Mon Jul 7 14:29:09 2025 -0700 Small tweak to be more correct, refs #35980 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html index 625cc38ce62..c8838f98f11 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html @@ -55,31 +55,32 @@ 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 +July 7th marks the 25th anniversary of the human genome going online, and the start 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">