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Releasing and announcing the new ENCODE4 cCREs track, refs #34109

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+<h2>Jan. 15, 2026 &nbsp;&nbsp; New ENCODE cCREs track available for human (hg38)</h2>
+<p>
+We are proud to announce a new <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chr7&g=cCREs&position=default"
+        target="_blank">
+ENCODE Registry of cCREs (candidate Cis-Regulatory Elements)</a> 
+container track for the hg38/GRCh38 genome as described in <a target="_blank"
+href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09909-9"</a>Moore et al., <em>Nature</em> 2026</a>. 
+This container contains candidate Cis-Regulatory 
+Elements (cCREs) generated by the ENCODE Consortium during Phase 4 (ENCODE4) and Phase 3 (ENCODE3).
+The previous "ENCODE3 cCREs" track is retained for archival purposes. The tracks include both integrated 
+(biosample-agnostic) and biosample-specific annotations derived from core epigenomic assays.</p>
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+<img src="/images/encode4cCREsNews.png" width='75%'></a>
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+<p>
+The new tracks include:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><b><a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?c=chr7&g=cCREregistry&position=default&db=hg38" target="_blank">
+ENCODE4 cCREs</a>:</b> This track presents the ENCODE Registry of 2,348,854 cCREs identified 
+and classified using data from all phases of the ENCODE Project (Phases 1–4). The registry 
+integrates chromatin accessibility and ChIP-seq signals across thousands of biosamples. All cCREs 
+are consolidated into a single, cell type-agnostic annotation track displayed here.</li>
+<li><b><a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?c=chr7&g=coreCcres&position=default&db=hg38" target="_blank">
+ENCODE4 Core Collection</a>:</b> This track displays biosample-specific cCREs alongside 
+genome-wide epigenomic signals for the ENCODE4 Core Collection, consisting of 170 biosamples 
+comprehensively profiled using four core assays: DNase-seq, ChIP-seq for H3K4me3 and H3K27ac 
+(histone modifications), and ChIP-seq for CTCF. These data support detailed analysis of 
+regulatory activity in individual biosamples.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+The cCREs are colored by their putative functional assignment based on biochemical 
+signatures and genomic context:</p>
+<div class="text-left">
+<p>
+<img src="/images/encode4cCREs.png" width='35%'>
+</div>
+<p>
+This results in the following classifications:</p>
+
+<table cellpadding='2'>
+  <tr>
+    <th style="border-bottom: 2px solid;">Color</th>
+    <th style="border-bottom: 2px solid;"></th>
+    <th style="border-bottom: 2px solid;">UCSC label</th>
+    <th style="border-bottom: 2px solid;">ENCODE classification</th>
+    <th style="border-bottom: 2px solid;">Classification criteria</th>
+  </tr>
+<tr><td style='background-color: #FF0000;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>red</td>
+        <td>promoter</td>
+        <td>promoter-like signature</td>
+        <td>within 200 bp of TSS, high chromatin accessibility and H3K4me3</td></tr>
+<tr><td style='background-color: #FFA700;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>orange</td>
+        <td>proximal enhancer</td>
+        <td>TSS-proximal enhancer-like signature</td>
+        <td>high chromatin accessibility and H3K27ac, within 2 kb of TSS; if within 200 bp of TSS, must have low H3K4me3</td></tr>
+<tr><td style='background-color: #FFCD00;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>yellow</td>
+        <td>distal enhancer</td>
+        <td>TSS-distal enhancer-like signature</td>
+        <td>high chromatin accessibility and H3K27ac, &gt;2 kb from TSS</td></tr>
+<tr><td style='background-color: #FFAAAA;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>pink</td>
+        <td>CA-H3K4me3</td>
+        <td>chromatin accessibility + H3K4me3</td>
+        <td>high chromatin accessibility and H3K4me3, low H3K27ac, not within 200 bp of TSS</td></tr>
+<tr><td style='background-color: #00B0F0;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>blue</td>
+        <td>CA-CTCF</td>
+        <td>chromatin accessibility + CTCF</td>
+        <td>high chromatin accessibility and CTCF, low H3K4me3 and H3K27ac</td></tr>
+<tr><td style='background-color: #800080;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>dark purple</td>
+        <td>CA-TF</td>
+        <td>chromatin accessibility + transcription factor</td>
+        <td>high chromatin accessibility, low H3K4me3, H3K27ac, and CTCF, bound by transcription factor</td></tr>
+<tr><td style='background-color: #06B050;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>green</td>
+        <td>CA</td>
+        <td>chromatin accessibility</td>
+        <td>high chromatin accessibility, low H3K4me3, H3K27ac, and CTCF</td></tr>
+<tr><td style='background-color: #CC99FF;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>light purple</td>
+        <td>TF</td>
+        <td>transcription factor</td>
+        <td>low chromatin accessibility, low H3K4me3, H3K27ac, and CTCF, bound by transcription factor</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+This dataset was produced by the ENCODE Data Analysis Center
+(<a href="https://www.umassmed.edu/zlab/" target="_blank">Zlab</a> at UMass Medical Center). Thanks
+to Mingshi Gao, Zhiping Weng, and Jill Moore for providing this data and
+initial version of the track. Thanks also to the ENCODE Consortium, the ENCODE production
+laboratories, and the ENCODE Data Coordination Center for generating and processing the datasets
+used here.</p>
+<p>
+For more details on this track and data, see the <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chr7&g=cCREs&position=default" 
+target="_blank">track description page</a>, as well as 
+Moore <em>et al</em>. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09909-9" target="_blank">
+An Expanded Registry of Candidate cis-Regulatory Elements for Studying Transcriptional Regulation</a>
+. <em>Nature</em>. 2026 January 7. PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39763870"
+target="_blank">39763870</a>; PMC: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11703161/"
+target="_blank">PMC11703161</a>.
+</p>
+
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 <h2>Dec. 19, 2025 &nbsp;&nbsp; EVA SNP release 8 for 41 assemblies</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of the EVA SNP Release 8 tracks for 41 assemblies.
 These tracks contain mappings of single nucleotide variants and small insertions and deletions
 (indels) &mdash; collectively Simple Nucleotide Variants (SNVs) &mdash; from the European Variation
 Archive (<a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/" target="_blank">EVA</a>) Release 8. The full list of
 assemblies that contain the EVA SNP release 8 track is below:</p>
 
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