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markd
  Tue Aug 19 10:21:11 2025 -0700
updates to recount3 tracks (not complete)

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 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
 </head>
 
 <body>
 <h2>Description</h2>
 <p>
-<a href="https://rna.recount.bio/" target="_blank">Recount3</a> is a comprehensive resource for
-re-analyzing RNA-seq data. It provides uniformly processed RNA-seq data and associated metadata
-from a wide range of studies, enabling researchers to access and analyze gene expression data in a
-consistent manner. Recount3 aggregates data from multiple sources, including the Sequence Read
-Archive (SRA) and the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, and reprocesses it using a
-standardized pipeline. This allows for cross-study comparisons and meta-analyses, facilitating
-discoveries in genomics and transcriptomics.
-</p><p>
-These tracks display the recount3 intron data including split read counts.
+Recount3 is a comprehensive resource for re-analyzing RNA-seq data. It provides uniformly processed
+RNA-seq data and associated metadata from a wide range of studies, enabling researchers to access
+and analyze gene expression data in a consistent manner. Recount3 aggregates data from multiple
+sources, including the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project,
+and reprocesses it using a standardized pipeline. This allows for cross-study comparisons and
+meta-analyses, facilitating discoveries in genomics and transcriptomics.
+</p>
+<p>
+These tracks display the recount3 intron data, including split read counts and splice junction motifs.
 </p>
-
 
 <h2>Display Conventions</h2>
 <p>
-Intron blocks are grayscale colored based on read support (darker tones indicate higher coverage).
-By default only introns with a minimum read count of 10,000 are shown. This setting can be changed
-on the track configuration page. The SRA track is only visible when zoomed in within 10 million
-bases because of its data density.
+Intron items are colored based on splice junction motifs and read support (darker colors indicate higher coverage).
+Split read counts and splice motifs are shown on mouseover.
+By default, only introns with a minimum read count of 10,000 are shown. This setting can be changed
+on the track configuration page.
 </p>
 <p>
-The intron ends are color-coded:
+The intron items are color-coded:
 <ul>
-<li><b><font color="#2E2585">Dark blue</font></b> GT donors and AG acceptors (CT and AC on 
+  <li><b><font color="#00008b">Blue</font></b> GT donors and AG acceptors (CT and AC on
 the minus strand)</li>
-<li><b><font color="#5DA899">Teal</font></b> GC donors (GT on the minus strand) </li>
-<li><b><font color="#C26A77">Faded red</font></b> AT donors and AC acceptors (GT and GT on the 
+  <li><b><font color="#00ced1">Turquoise</font></b> GC donors (GT on the minus strand)</li>
+  <li><b><font color="#ff8c00">Orange</font></b> AT donors and AC acceptors (GT and GT on the
 minus strand)</li>
-<li>Introns with non-standard ends do not have colored tags.</li>
+  <li><b><font color="#a9a9a9">Grey</font></b> Non-canonical junction motifs. These could be sequencing errors, polymorphisms, or very rare U12 introns.</li>
 </ul>
-<p>
-Split read counts and splice motifs are shown on mouseover.
 </p>
 
-<h2>Methods</h2>
 <p>
-Junction files were converted to bed format. For grayscaling total read count was log10
-transformed and multiplied by 10 to get a score between 0 and 225, which can be found
-in the bed score field.
+Introns can be filtered by:
+<ul>
+  <li><b>read count</b> - Number of split reads supporting the intron. The default is a minimum of 10,000 reads.</li>
+  <li><b>intron size</b> - Length of the intron. The default is 30 to 100,000.</li>
+  <li><b>splice junction motif</b> - The motif is specified in the form <em>GT/AG</em>, with canonical motifs being uppercase and unknown motifs being lowercase.
+    The default is no filtering.</li>
+  <li><b>strand</b> - Filter by positive strand (&apos;+&apos;),
+    negative strand (&apos;-&apos;), and/or
+    unknown strand (&apos;.&apos;).  The default is no strand filtering (&apos;all&apos;).
+  </li>
+</ul>
 </p>
 
 <h2>Data Access</h2>
 The raw data can be explored interactively with the
 <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables">Table Browser</a> or the
 <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgIntegrator">Data Integrator</a>.
 For automated analysis, the data may be queried from our
 <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/api.html">REST API</a>.<br>
 Please refer to our
 <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/forum/#!forum/genome">mailing list archives</a>
 for questions, or our
 <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads.html#downloads36">Data Access FAQ</a>
 for more information.
 <p>
 The original junction files can be found at <br>
 <a href="https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/gtexv2/junctions.bgz" target="_blank">
 https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/gtexv2/junctions.bgz</a><br>
 <a href="https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/tcgav2/junctions.bgz" target="_blank">
 https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/tcgav2/junctions.bgz</a><br>
 <a href="https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/srav3h/junctions.bgz" target="_blank">
 https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/srav3h/junctions.bgz</a><br>
 <a href="https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/ccle/junctions.bgz" target="_blank">
 https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/ccle/junctions.bgz</a><br>
 <a href="https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/srav1m/junctions.bgz" target="_blank">
 https://snaptron.cs.jhu.edu/data/srav1m/junctions.bgz (mouse)</a><br>
 </p>
 
+<h2>Methods</h2>
+<p>
+Junction files were converted to bed format. For grayscaling total read count was log10
+transformed and multiplied by 10 to get a score between 0 and 225, which can be found
+in the bed score field.
+</p>
+
 <h2>References</h2>
 <p>
 Wilks C, Zheng SC, Chen FY, Charles R, Solomon B, Ling JP, Imada EL, Zhang D, Joseph L, Leek JT
 <em>et al</em>.
 <a href="https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-021-02533-6"
 target="_blank">
 recount3: summaries and queries for large-scale RNA-seq expression and splicing</a>.
 <em>Genome Biol</em>. 2021 Nov 29;22(1):323.
 PMID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34844637" target="_blank">34844637</a>; PMC: <a
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628444/" target="_blank">PMC8628444</a>
 </p>