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diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html
index 3eeed328e39..7fc030f2870 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/newsarch.html
@@ -1603,31 +1603,31 @@
         <li><b>BRCA Variants</b> - <br>
         Shows single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and small insertion/deletion
         variants of &lt; 50 nucleotides (indels)</li>
         <li><b>BRCA Structural Variants</b> - <br>
         Shows variants &lt;= 50 nucleotides</li>
         <li><b>ACMG Popfreq Variants</b> - <br>
         Shows the provisionally-assigned ACMG evidence code for the
         Population Frequency group, for variants of &lt; 50 nucleotides</li>
         <li><b>ACMG Popfreq SVs</b> - <br>
         Shows the provisionally-assigned ACMG evidence code for the Population
         Frequency group, for variants of &lt;= 50 nucleotides</li>
     </ul>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
-The <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTracks?genome=hg38&position=default&hubUrl=https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/enigma/hub.txt"
+The <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTracks?genome=hg38&position=default&hubUrl=https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/enigma/hub.txt"
 target="blank"><b>ENIGMA BRCA1/BRCA2 specs 1.1.0</b></a> track hub contains data from the
 <a href="https://enigmaconsortium.org/" target="_blank">ClinGen ENIGMA BRCA1 and BRCA2 Expert Panel
 Specifications</a> to the ACMG/AMP Variant Interpretation
 Guidelines for BRCA1/BRCA1 Version 1.1.0. The ENIGMA VCEP has adapted the ACMG-AMP codes for the
 BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. Before using the data, always verify that the ClinGen Criteria Specification
 (CSpec) version numbers here match the latest version on the
 <a target="_blank" href="https://cspec.genome.network/cspec/ui/svi/affiliation/50087">
 CSpec Registry</a>.
 </p>
 <ul>
     Data is available for the hg19 and hg38 genomes assemblies and the tracks
     available are:
     <ul>
         <li><b>BRCA1/BRCA2 protein domains 1.1.0</b> -<br>
         Shows the (potentially) clinically important functional domains for 
@@ -3526,35 +3526,35 @@
 
 <a name="013023"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 30, 2023 &nbsp;&nbsp; Addition of GRCh38 patch 14 sequences to hg38</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the addition of GRCh38 patch release 14 to the
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=hg38">hg38</a> assembly. hg38 has been updated with patches
 since its release in 2013. The GRC patch releases do not change any previously existing
 sequences; they simply add new sequences for fix patches or alternate haplotypes that correspond
 to specific regions of the main chromosome sequences. For most users, the patches are unlikely
 to make a difference and may complicate the analysis as they introduce more duplication.</p>
 
 <p>
 More information on how patch sequences are incorporated can be found on the
 <a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/patches/" target="_blank">Patching up the Genome</a> blog post.
 The blog post contains details about the new
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/latest/"
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/latest/"
 target="_blank">/latest</a>,
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/initial/"
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/initial/"
 target="_blank">/initial</a>, and
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/p14/" target="_blank">/p14</a>
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/p14/" target="_blank">/p14</a>
 download directories on the downloads server. With the addition of new sequences to hg38, we can
 expect to see BLAT return more matches to the genome.</p>
 
 <ul>
   <li>
     The <b>initial/</b> subdirectory contains files for the initial release of GRCh38, which has 455
     sequences, 261 alternate sequences, and no fix sequences. It is the same as the
     parent download directory. This is probably the best genome file for aligners and most analysis
     tasks, a version called &quot;analysisSet&quot; for the human genome.
   </li>
   <li>
     The <b>p14/</b> subdirectory contains files for GRCh38.p14 (patch release 14), which has 711
     sequences, 351 alternate sequences, and 166  fix sequences.
   </li>
   <li>
@@ -3877,33 +3877,33 @@
 fix patch sequences (not all of which are included in UCSC's hg19).</p>
 
 <p>
 dbSNP build 155 is composed of 5 subtracks:
 <ul>
   <li><b>Common dbSNP(155)</b> - Common (1000 Genomes Phase 3 MAF >= 1%) Short Genetic Variants</li>
   <li><b> ClinVar dbSNP(155)</b> - Short Genetic Variants in ClinVar</li>
   <li><b>Mult. dbSNP(155)</b> - Short Genetic Variants that map to multiple genomic loci</li>
   <li><b>All dbSNP(155)</b> - All Short Genetic Variants</li>
   <li><b>Map Err dbSnp(155)</b> - Mappings with Inconsistent Coordinates</li>
 </ul></p>
 
 <h3>Data Access</h3>
 <p>
 The complete data can be found across two separate directories in our download server, a bigBed file
-(bigDbSnp) for <a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg19/snp/">hg19</a>
-and <a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/snp/">hg38</a>, and a
-<a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hgFixed/dbSnp/">shared secondary
+(bigDbSnp) for <a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg19/snp/">hg19</a>
+and <a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/snp/">hg38</a>, and a
+<a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hgFixed/dbSnp/">shared secondary
 details file</a> which holds additional variant details.<p>
 </p>
 
 <p>
 We would like to thank the dbSNP group at NCBI for providing access to these data. We would also
 like to thank Galt Barber, Angie Hinrichs, and Gerardo Perez for their efforts on this release.
 </p>
 
 
 <a name="080222"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 08, 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; New GENCODE gene tracks: Human V41 (hg19/hg38) - Mouse VM30
 (mm39)</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce new GENCODE Gene annotation tracks, which correspond
 to <a href="https://www.ensembl.info/2022/05/31/whats-coming-in-ensembl-release-107-ensembl-genomes-54/"
@@ -4058,31 +4058,31 @@
 
 
 
 <a name="052422"></a>
 <h2>May 24, 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Assembly Request Page</h2>
 <p>
 Find the genome of your favorite organism on our new <a href="/assemblyRequest.html"
 target="_blank">assembly request</a> page. Click &quot;view&quot; to launch a browser,
 or the &quot;request&quot; button to request that we add yours.</p>
 <div class="text-center">
   <a href="/assemblyRequest.html">
    <img src="../images/newsArchImages/requestPage.png" alt="New Assembly Request Page" width="700">
   </a>
 </div>
 <p>Our most recent blog post,
-<a href="https://genome-blog.soe.ucsc.edu/blog/2022/04/12/genark-hubs-part-4/"
+<a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/2022/04/12/genark-hubs-part-4/"
 target="_blank">GenArk Hubs Part 4 - New assembly request page</a> describes how to use this new
 feature.</p>
 <p>
 With the realization that we could not possibly host every single genomic assembly available, we created
 <a href="help/hgTrackHubHelp.html#Assembly" target="_blank">Assembly Hubs</a>. Assembly Hubs allow
 anyone to host and view the genome of any species in the context of the UCSC Genome Browser.
 Last summer we <a href="newsarch.html#060121">announced</a> the creation of the Genome Archive
 (GenArk) which included Assembly Hubs for the genomic assemblies of more than 1,300 species.
 Since then, we have taken this a step further by creating this new <a href="/assemblyRequest.html"
 target="_blank">Assembly Request</a> page that displays about 14,000 assemblies: those that
 are available for viewing and those that can be requested. We currently have nearly 1,700 assembly
 hubs available for viewing at the click of a button. Upon first visiting the page shows only
 <b>the first 500 assemblies</b>. Use the <em>select assembly type to display</em> button to
 &quot;show all&quot; assemblies. If you don't see the organism or assembly you
 are interested in then please use the page to request it. We will build an Assembly Hub for you
@@ -4386,31 +4386,31 @@
 </p>
 
 <a name="041222"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 12, 2022 &nbsp;&nbsp; T2T CHM13 v2.0 now available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 The Genome Browser has a <a href="/goldenPath/history.html">rich history</a> intricately connected
 to human genomic research. We have provided display to almost two dozen human genomes beginning 
 with the first drafts in the year 2000. Nearly 22 years later, the <a 
 href="https://sites.google.com/ucsc.edu/t2tworkinggroup" target="_blank">T2T consortium</a> has 
 published the most complete human haploid genome sequence to date, having added just about all of the 200 
 million bases (8%) missing from the current reference. We are proud of all the scientists 
 involved, including our colleagues in the <a href="https://genomics.ucsc.edu/" 
 target="_blank">UCSC Genomics Institute</a>, who played a role in this release. We strive
 to facilitate omics research and thus would like to announce our expanded support for 
 the <a 
-href="/cgi-bin/hgTracks?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/hub.txt&genome=GCA_009914755.4&position=lastDbPos" 
+href="/cgi-bin/hgTracks?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/hub.txt&genome=GCA_009914755.4&position=lastDbPos" 
 target="_blank">T2T-CHM13 v2.0 browser</a>.</p>
 
 <a name="CHM13"></a><h3>What is T2T-CHM13 v2.0?</h3>
 <p>
 <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6987" target="_blank">T2T-CHM13 v2.0</a> 
 was produced by sequencing the CHM13hTERT human cell line from a hydatiform mole, which is
 haploid, meaning it contains nearly uniform homozygosity. 
 It also employed recent technologies such as <a target="_blank"
 href="https://www.pacb.com/technology/hifi-sequencing/">HiFi</a> and <a target="_blank" 
 href="https://nanoporetech.com/">nanopore</a> sequencing. The result is a 
 3.055 billion base pair genome that includes gapless assemblies for all main chromosomes 
 and introduces nearly 200 Mbp of novel sequence containing 1956 gene predictions, 99 of
 which are predicted to be protein coding. The completed regions include all centromeric satellite 
 arrays, recent segmental duplications, and the short arms of all five acrocentric chromosomes. A Y
 chromosome was added from Genome in a Bottle's HG002 sample.</p>
@@ -4502,60 +4502,60 @@
 <li><a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hub_3267197_GCA_009914755.4&c=CP068277.2&g=hub_3267197_hgLiftOver"
 target="_blank">Human liftOver</a> - Contains one to one Nextflow LiftOver pipeline 
 alignments between CHM13 and hg19/hg38.</li>
 <li><a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hub_3267197_GCA_009914755.4&c=CP068277.2&g=hub_3267197_GCA_009914755_4_T2T-CHM13v2_0ChainNet"
 target="_blank">Chain/Net Track</a> - Alignment track between CHM13 and four other human
 genomes that shows rearrangements in our usual chains (=alignable) and net (=synteny)
 display formats. Other genomes are hg19, hg38, HG002pat, and HG002mat.</li></ul></p>
 
 <h3>How to display my data in CHM13?</h3>
 <p>
 We have added support for CHM13 to our <a href="/cgi-bin/hgConvert?db=hg38&position=lastDbPos"
 target="_blank">hgConvert tool</a>. This allows region conversion of the current viewing 
 window between hg19/hg38 to CHM13 and vice versa. We will also be adding support for 
 conversion of data using our <a href="/cgi-bin/hgLiftOver" target="_blank">hgLiftOver tool</a> 
 at our next version release on May 3rd. In the meantime, the command line version of 
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#utilities_downloads"
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#utilities_downloads"
 target="_blank">liftOver</a> in combination with the proper <a target="_blank"
 href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/liftOver/">chain file</a>
 can be used to lift annotations.</p>
 
 <figure class="text-center">
 <img class='text-center' src="../images/hgConvert.png" width='80%' alt="Using hgConvert tool
 to see coordinates between hg38 and CHM13.">
 </figure>
 
 <p>
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgCustom" target="_blank">Custom tracks</a> and <a href="/cgi-bin/hgHubConnect"
 target="_blank">track hubs</a> can also be used to display annotations on CHM13. In the case of 
 track hubs, using <code>genome GCA_009914755.4</code> is sufficient to declare the assembly. 
 We have also expanded our support of variable chromosome names, so data can be loaded using either 
 UCSC (&quot;chr1&quot;), NCBI (&quot;CP068277.2&quot;) or Ensembl (&quot;1&quot;) sequence 
 identifiers. <b>There should no longer be a need to convert sequence names</b>.</p>
 <p> 
 It is worth noting that GenArk assemblies are functionally hubs, which means all data is 
 stored in binary files, not MySQL databases. If your existing data pipelines do not work 
 because our data formats have changed compared to hg19/hg38, please do not hesitate to 
 contact us. Most formats are very similar to the MySQL tables and we have command 
 line tools that can perform the conversions.</p>
 
 <h3>Where to download CHM13 data?</h3>
 <p>
 All GenArk hubs are hosted on our download server. This means that all settings information 
 and data for displaying this browser can be found there: 
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/"
-target="_blank">https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/</a></p>
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/"
+target="_blank">https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/</a></p>
 <p>
 We also provide FASTA files there with two different sequence identifiers (the 
 &quot;chr1&quot; format and Genbank accessions), gene annotations in GFF and other 
 formats and assembly indexes with either Genbank or &quot;chr1&quot; sequence names for the 
 aligners bwa-mem2, bowtie2, hisat2 and minimap2. Detailed download instructions can 
 be found in the README and on our 
 <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=hub_3267197_GCA_009914755.4"
 target="_blank">assembly description page</a></p>
 <p>
 All liftOver files, including files to/from hg19/hg38 and CHM13 can also be found 
 on our download server: 
 <a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/liftOver/"
 target="_blank">https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/GCA/009/914/755/GCA_009914755.4/liftOver/</a></p>
 
 <h3>Acknowledgments</h3>
@@ -4835,31 +4835,31 @@
 <p>
 The JASPAR database is a joint effort between several labs (please see
 the latest <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34850907" target="_blank">JASPAR paper</a>).
 Binding site predictions and UCSC tracks were computed by the <a href="http://cisreg.ca/"
 target="_blank">Wasserman Lab</a>. We would like to thank Daniel Schmelter and Jairo Navarro at UCSC
 for building and testing these tracks.</p>
 
 <!-- ============= 2021 archived news ============= -->
 <a name="2021"></a>
 
 <a name="122021"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 20, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Last of three blog posts about new GenArk hubs</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the third blog post in a three-part series about
 our new GenArk Assembly Hubs.
-This <a href="https://genome-blog.soe.ucsc.edu/blog/2021/12/20/genark-hubs-part-3/"
+This <a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/2021/12/20/genark-hubs-part-3/"
 target="_blank">final installment</a> provides some explanation of the technical
 details behind the process. The <a href="https://bit.ly/UCSC_blog_GenArk1">first post</a>
 was about accessing the data, and the <a href="https://bit.ly/UCSC_blog_GenArk2">second post</a>
 shared examples of using the hub's data with BLAT, PCR, and External Tools.</p>
 
 <a name="121621"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 16, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Track Hub Filters Quick Start Guide</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce a help page specific to building filters on Track Hubs.
 <a href="help/hgTrackHubHelp.html#Intro">Track Hubs</a> are web-accessible directories of
 genomic data that can be viewed on the UCSC Genome Browser. Track Hubs allow a lab to share and
 host all their genomic data (<a href="help/bam.html">BAMs</a>, <a href="help/vcf.html">VCFs</a>,
 ect.) via a single Genome Browser link. Such links can load multiple hubs and even be combined with
 a position parameter to easily reference laboratory data around a gene of interest, see examples in
 a recent <a href="https://bit.ly/UCSC_blog_sharing">blog bost</a> about sharing data with URLs.</p>
@@ -4897,31 +4897,31 @@
 </p>
 <p>
 Each section of the <a href="help/hubQuickStartFilter.html">Track Hub Filters Quick Start Guide</a>
 comes with examples and sessions allowing to quickly click into real interactive
 demonstration hubs to experiment with how the settings work. The example hubs also provide a
 starter template for building similar hubs.</p>
 <p>
 Many thanks to Lou Nassar for building this Filters Quick Start Guide and Brian Raney for
 his work implementing the new filter software.</p>
 
 <a name="120621"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 6, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Second of three blog posts about new GenArk hubs</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the second blog post in a three-part series about
 our new GenArk Assembly Hubs.
-This <a href="https://genome-blog.soe.ucsc.edu/blog/2021/12/06/genark-hubs-part-2/"
+This <a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/2021/12/06/genark-hubs-part-2/"
 target="_blank">second installment</a> provides examples of using the GenArk
 hubs' data with BLAT, PCR, and External Tools.</p>
 
 <a name="120321"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 3, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Variants of Concern SARS-CoV-2 track with Omicron</h2>
 <p>
 The Genome Browser has updated our <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=variantMuts">
 Variants of Concern</a> track to include the 
 latest WHO-designated variant of concern (VOC), Omicron B.1.1.529. This evolving virus has 
 been a challenge for everyone and we are humbled to continue providing public data
 and our high-quality genetics research tools, now updated with the latest COVID 
 variant information.</p>
 <p>
 This update comes as two separate subtracks to the Variants of Concern (VOC) track, one with amino 
 acid mutations sourced from <a href="https://cov-lineages.org/" target="_blank">cov-lineages.org</a> 
@@ -4959,41 +4959,41 @@
   <li><b>NCBI Assembly ID:</b> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/8227741"
   target="_blank">8227741</a></li>
   <li><b>NCBI BioProject ID:</b> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/13179"
   target="_blank">13179</A></li>
   <li><b>NCBI BioSample ID:</b> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN02953603"
   target="_blank">SAMN02953603</a></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>147</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>2,312,802,198</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#dog_credits" target="_blank">Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#dog_use" target="_blank">Data use conditions and
       restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" target="_blank">Rsync</a> and
-      <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam6/" target="_blank">FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog" target="_blank">Downloads page</a></li>
+      <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam6/" target="_blank">FTP</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog" target="_blank">Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="112321"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 23, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; First of three blog posts about new GenArk hubs</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the first blog post in a three-part series about
 our new GenArk Assembly Hubs.
-This <a href="https://genome-blog.soe.ucsc.edu/blog/2021/11/23/genark-hubs-part-1/"
+This <a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/2021/11/23/genark-hubs-part-1/"
 target="_blank">first installment</a> explains what the GenArk hubs are, and
 shares a number of different ways to access their over 1500 genomes.</p>
 
 <a name="111821"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 18, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Clinical Rare Disease track - Orphadata</h2>
 <p>
 We are happy to share another clinical resource for genetic disease correlation, 
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=orphadata">the Orphadata track</a> from 
 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.orpha.net/">the Orphanet consortium</a>. This 
 track shows nearly 8000 genes, on hg19 and hg38, 
 annotated with human disorders and epidemiological information 
 including Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) disorder name, association type, 
 modes of inheritance, age of first symptoms, and disease prevalence (if available). 
 This data is gathered by a consortium of more than 40 countries, focusing 
 on rare diseases. This track includes gene-disease display filters
@@ -5335,35 +5335,35 @@
 
 <a name="101221"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 18, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Addition of GRCh38 patch 13 sequences to hg38</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the addition of GRCh38 patch release 13 to the
 <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=hg38">hg38</a> assembly. hg38 has been updated with patches
 since its release in 2013. The GRC patch releases do not change any previously existing
 sequences; they simply add new sequences for fix patches or alternate haplotypes that correspond
 to specific regions of the main chromosome sequences. For most users, the patches are unlikely
 to make a difference and may complicate the analysis as they introduce more duplication.</p>
 
 <p>
 More information on how patch sequences are incorporated can be found on the
 <a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/patches/" target="_blank">Patching up the Genome</a> blog post.
 The blog post contains details about the new
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/latest/"
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/latest/"
 target="_blank">/latest</a>,
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/initial/"
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/initial/"
 target="_blank">/initial</a>, and
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/p13/" target="_blank">/p13</a>
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/p13/" target="_blank">/p13</a>
 download directories on the downloads server. With the addition of new sequences to hg38, we can
 expect to see BLAT return more matches to the genome.</p>
 
 <ul>
   <li>
     The <b>initial/</b> subdirectory contains files for the initial release of GRCh38, which has 455
     sequences, 261 alternate sequences, and no fix sequences. It is the same as the
     parent download directory. This is probably the best genome file for aligners and most analysis
     tasks, a version called &quot;analysisSet&quot; for the human genome.
   </li>
   <li>
     The <b>p13/</b> subdirectory contains files for GRCh38.p13 (patch release 13). It has 640 sequences
     including alternate and fix sequences.
   </li>
   <li>
@@ -5453,35 +5453,35 @@
 
 <a name="080421"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 04, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Addition of GRCm38 patch 6 sequences to mm10</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the addition of GRCm38 patch release 6 to the mm10 assembly. mm10 has
 been updated with patches since its release in 2012. The GRC patch releases do not change any
 previously existing sequences; they simply add new sequences for fix patches or alternate haplotypes
 that correspond to specific regions of the main chromosome sequences. For most users, the patches
 are unlikely to make a difference and may complicate the analysis as they introduce more
 duplication.</p>
 
 <p>
 More information on how patch sequences are incorporated can be found on the
 <a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/patches/" target="_blank">Patching up the Genome</a> blog post.
 The blog post contains details about the new
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm10/bigZips/latest/"
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm10/bigZips/latest/"
 target="_blank">/latest</a>,
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm10/bigZips/initial/"
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm10/bigZips/initial/"
 target="_blank">/initial</a>, and
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm10/bigZips/p6/" target="_blank">/p6</a>
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm10/bigZips/p6/" target="_blank">/p6</a>
 download directories on the downloads server. With the addition of new sequences to mm10, we can
 expect to see BLAT return more matches to the genome.</p>
 
 <ul>
   <li>
     The <b>initial/</b> subdirectory contains files for the initial release of GRCm38, which has 66
     sequences, no original alternate sequences, and no fix sequences. It is the same as the
     parent download directory. This is probably the best genome file for aligners and most analysis
     tasks, a version called &quot;analysisSet&quot; for the human genome.
   </li>
   <li>
     The <b>p6/</b> subdirectory contains files for GRCm38.p6 (patch release 6). It has 239 sequences
     including alternate and fix sequences. Note that these patches include
     &quot;strain-specific&quot; sequences. You may want to check with the authors of your aligner if
     the software can recognize these sequences.
@@ -5516,33 +5516,33 @@
   <li><B>NCBI BioProject ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/577946'
 TARGET='_blank'>577946</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioSample ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN13041969'
 TARGET='_blank'>SAMN16261960</A></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>167</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>1,451,301,209</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#xentro_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#xentro_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro10/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro10/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xentro"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xentro"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 <p>
 We would like to thank the University of California, Berkeley for creating this new X. tropicalis assembly.
 We would also like to thank Hiram Clawson, Lou Nassar, and Gerardo Perez for the development and release of
 the xenTro10 genome browser.
 </p>
 
 <a name="072021"></a>
 <h2>July 20, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated GENCODE tracks released for hg38, hg19, and mm39</h2>
 <p>
 We have updated our GENCODE gene datasets to the latest releases; v38 
 for human (hg38 &amp; hg19) and v27 for the mouse genome assembly (mm39). 
 These new annotation data were released by GENCODE in May 2021 
@@ -5822,100 +5822,100 @@
   <li><b>RefSeq Diffs</b> &ndash; alignment differences between the human reference genome(s) and RefSeq transcripts
   <li><b>RefSeq Select</b> &ndash; a single Select transcript representative for each protein-coding gene
   <li><b>RefSeq HGMD</b> &ndash; transcripts with clinical variants in Human Gene Mutation Database
 </ul>
 <p>
 We would like to thank NCBI and the RefSeq Annotation database for collecting and curating these data.
 We would also like to thank Hiram Clawson, Lou Nassar, and Gerardo Perez for developing and releasing these tracks.
 </p>
 
 <a name="060121"></a>
 <h2>June 1, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Archive (GenArk) hubs and Dynamic BLAT</h2>
 <p>
 Do you have a favorite species or a research organism for which you'd like to visualize
 the genomic sequence? With the recent addition of genomic assemblies for more than 1,300
 species, it's possible that your favorite is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser.
-Check <a  href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/">this list</a> of new assemblies 
+Check <a  href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/">this list</a> of new assemblies 
 to see if yours is a click away. Each of these Genome Browser assembly hubs comes pre-loaded 
 with several annotation tracks, gene models, and the ability to align genomic sequence to 
 the reference assembly using the <a  href="/FAQ/FAQblat.html">BLAT</a> 
 alignment tool. You can add your own data to your view of the assembly hub by uploading a 
 <a  href="help/customTrack.html">custom track</a> 
 or creating a <a href="help/hgTrackHubHelp.html">track hub</a>.</p>
 <p>
-We call this group of assembly hubs, the <a href=https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/>
+We call this group of assembly hubs, the <a href=https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/>
 Genome Archive (GenArk)</a>. The genomes in the GenArk are sourced from 
 <a href=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/ target="_blank">NCBI RefSeq</a>, 
 the  <a href="https://vertebrategenomesproject.org/" target="_blank">Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP)</a> 
 and other projects. See the complete list of assembly hubs <a target="_blank"
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/UCSC_GI.assemblyHubList.txt">here</a>.</p>
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/UCSC_GI.assemblyHubList.txt">here</a>.</p>
 <p>
 GenArk assemblies can be found by searching the common name (e.g.
  <a href="../h/GCF_001984765.1">American Beaver</a>) or GCA/GCF accession
 (e.g. <a href="../h/GCF_001984765.1">GCF_001984765.1</a>) directly on the
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgGateway">Genome Browser Gateway page</a>.
 A full list can also be seen on the <a 
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs">GenArk portal</a> which
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs">GenArk portal</a> which
 is organized by phylogenetic groups and projects:<br>
 
 <div align="left">
 <table class="stdTbl">
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/index.html">Primates</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/index.html">Primates</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/index.html">Mammals</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/index.html">Mammals</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/index.html">Birds</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/index.html">Birds</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/index.html">Fishes</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/index.html">Fishes</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/index.html">Vertebrates</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/index.html">Vertebrates</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/invertebrate/index.html">Invertebrates</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/invertebrate/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/invertebrate/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/invertebrate/index.html">Invertebrates</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/invertebrate/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/invertebrate/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fungi/index.html">Fungi</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fungi/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fungi/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fungi/index.html">Fungi</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fungi/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fungi/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/plants/index.html">Plants</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/plants/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/plants/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/plants/index.html">Plants</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/plants/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/plants/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/index.html">VGP</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/index.html">VGP</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/legacy/index.html">Legacy</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/legacy/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
- <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/legacy/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/legacy/index.html">Legacy</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/legacy/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a></td>
+ <td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/legacy/trackData.html">Track statistics</a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/globalReference/index.html">Global Reference</a></td>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/globalReference/index.html">Global Reference</a></td>
  <td><a></a></td>
  <td><a></a></td></tr>
 
- <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/mouseStrains/hubIndex.html">Mouse Strains</a></td>
+ <tr><td><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/mouseStrains/hubIndex.html">Mouse Strains</a></td>
  <td><a></a></td>
  <td><a></a></td></tr>
 
 </table></div></p>
 <p>
 The number of NCBI RefSeq assemblies has been increasing each year, and we expect the trend to continue as assemblies 
 from VGP, and other projects are released. Our next step is to add additional clades to GenArk including archaea,
 viruses, and bacteria.</p>
 
 <p>
 As mentioned above, assembly hubs in the GenArk allow for sequence alignment using the BLAT tool. We extended our traditional
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgBlat?command=start">BLAT tool</a> to accommodate these assembly hubs and we call it Dynamic BLAT. Dynamic BLAT
 pre-computes index genomes files, which allows assemblies to have a BLAT server without needing it to be resident in the 
 computer's memory. Dynamic BLAT allows us to offer BLAT services on nearly all of our GenArk assemblies, with a few exceptions
 due to excessive genome size.</p>
@@ -5981,33 +5981,33 @@
   <li><B>NCBI BioProject ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/662791'
 TARGET='_blank'>662791</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioSample ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN16261960'
 TARGET='_blank'>SAMN16261960</A></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>176</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>2,647,915,728</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#rat_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#rat_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn7/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn7/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rat"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rat"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 <p>
 We would like to thank the Darwin Tree of Life Project at the Wellcome Sanger Institute for 
 creating this new rat assembly. We would also like to thank Hiram Clawson, Lou Nassar, and 
 Gerardo Perez for the development and release of the rn7 genome browser.
 </p>
 
 <a name="041321"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 13, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Haploinsufficiency predictions for human (hg19)</h2>
 <p>
 We are happy to announce a new haploinsufficiency predictions track for human assembly
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&c=chrX&g=decipherHaploIns">GRCh37/hg19</a>. This track displays
 haploinsufficiency predictions for human genes from
@@ -6370,34 +6370,34 @@
   <li><b>Scaffold count:</b> 994</li>
   <li><b>Total size:</b> 2,897,824,427</li>
   <li>
     <a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#marmoset_credits" target="_blank">Acknowledgments</a>
   </li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li>
     <a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#marmoset_use" target="_blank">Data use conditions and
     restrictions</a>
   </li>
   <li>
     <a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" target="_blank">Rsync</a> and
-    <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/calJac4/" target="_blank">FTP</a>
+    <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/calJac4/" target="_blank">FTP</a>
   </li>
   <li>
-    <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#marmoset" target="_blank">Downloads
+    <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#marmoset" target="_blank">Downloads
     page</a>
   </li>
 </ul>
 
 <a name="020321"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 3, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Exome Sequencing Probesets for human (hg38/hg19)</h2>
 <p>
 In our effort to better support personalized medicine and clinical genetics researchers,
 we are happy to announce the addition of 78 new whole exome sequencing (WES) probes and targets 
 tracks from several major companies for human genomes hg38 and hg19. Our new tracks 
 include data on WES kits from Illumina, Agilent, Roche, IDT, Twist, and MGI (BGI).
 Understanding exome sequencing probes and targets helps bring awareness to the different
 gene isoforms and alternative splicing that may be important for disease research.
 You can find these tracks under the &quot;Mapping and Sequencing&quot; group or go directly
 to the description pages of the &quot;Exome Probesets&quot; tracks below:</p>
@@ -6486,33 +6486,33 @@
   <li><B>NCBI BioProject ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/318403'
 TARGET='_blank'>318403</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioSample ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN04851098'
 TARGET='_blank'>SAMN04851098</A></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>794</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>2,343,218,756</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#dog_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#dog_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam5/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam5/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="012221"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 22, 2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updates to gnomAD variation track (GRCh37/hg19)(GRCh38/hg38)</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce updates to the gnomAD Variants super-track for the <a target="_blank"
 href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&c=chrX&g=gnomadSuper">hg19/GRCh37</a>
 and <a target="_blank"
 href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chrX&g=gnomadVariants">hg38/GRCh38</a>
 human assemblies.</p>
 <ul>
   <li>gnomAD v3.1 is now available and contains variants from 76,156 whole genomes (and no exomes),
       all mapped to the GRCh38/hg38 reference sequence. 4,454 genomes were added to the number of
@@ -6625,54 +6625,54 @@
 hg19</a>) - This track set shows the results of the <a target="_blank" 
 href="https://www.covid19hg.org/blog/2020-11-24-covid-19-hgi-results-for-data-freeze-4-october-2020/">
 GWAS Data Release 4 (October 2020)</a> from the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.covid19hg.org/">
 COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI)</a> which aims to identify the genetic determinants of 
 SARS-CoV-2 infection susceptibility, disease severity and outcomes.</li>
 <li>
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&c=NC_045512v2&g=sarsCov2PhyloPub">
 Updated - Phylogenetic Tree and Variants from High-coverage Sequences in Public Databases</a>
 - Updated from release <b>28-08-20</b> to <b>28-10-20</b>. This track displays a phylogenetic tree
 inferred from SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences from <a 
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType_s=Nucleotide&VirusLineage_ss=SARS-CoV-2,%20taxid:2697049" 
 target="_blank">GenBank</a>, <a href="https://www.cogconsortium.uk/data/" 
 target="_blank">COG-UK</a> and the <a href="https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/release_genome" 
 target="_blank">China National Center for Bioinformation</a>, and variants found
 in the sequences. Since this track is sourced from public databases, we can offer VCF files with
-sequence variants for <a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/wuhCor1/sarsCov2PhyloPub/" 
+sequence variants for <a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/wuhCor1/sarsCov2PhyloPub/" 
 target="_blank">download</a>.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p><br>
 We would like to thank the publication authors <a target="_blank" 
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32895485">Li <em>et al</em></a> and
 <a target="_blank" 
 href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.06.372037v1">Liu <em>et al</em></a> for
 making these data available. We would also like to thank
 <a href="http://public.gi.ucsc.edu/~jferna10/" target="_blank">Jason Fernandes</a>,
 <a href="https://www.cogconsortium.uk/" target="_blank">COG-UK</a>,
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/" target="_blank">GenBank</a>,
 the <a href="https://gisaid.org/" target="_blank">GISAID Initiative</a>,
 the <a href="https://www.covid19hg.org/" target="_blank">COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI)</a>
 and their <a target="_blank" href="https://www.covid19hg.org/partners/">partners</a>, as well as
 Rachel Liao, Juha Karjalainen, and Kumar Veerapen from the <a target="_blank" 
 href="https://www.broadinstitute.org/">Broad Institute</a>.</p>
 
 <p>
 These tracks are made possible due to the worldwide efforts of scientists, including the
 <a href="/staff.html" target="_blank">Genome Browser team</a>. We will continue to
 provide SARS-COVID-2 resources as they become available. For the latest data, see our
-<a href="http://genome-preview.soe.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=wuhCor1&position=lastDbPos" 
+<a href="http://genome-preview.gi.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=wuhCor1&position=lastDbPos" 
 target="_blank">preview site</a>. Note that content on our preview server has not
 undergone our QA process, and is subject to change at any time.</p>
 
 <!-- ============= 2020 archived news ============= -->
 <a name="2020"></a>
 
 <a name="122320"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 23, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; New ClinVar Interpretations track for human (hg19/hg38)</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to release a new track, <b>ClinVar Interpretations</b>, for the hg19/GRCh37 and 
 hg38/GRCh38 human assemblies. This track can be found as part of the <a target="_blank"
 href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chr10&g=clinvar">ClinVar Composite</a>. It is the first
 track to use our bead graph display, which is a variation of our existing <a target="_blank"
 href="#062019">lollipop display</a>.</p>
 <p>
@@ -6771,33 +6771,33 @@
   <li><B>NCBI BioProject ID:</B> <A HREF="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/384558"
 TARGET="_blank">384558</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioSample ID:</B> <A HREF="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN06841387"
 TARGET="_blank">SAMN06841387</A></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>7,873</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>2,400,934,290</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#hawaiian_monk_seal_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#hawaiian_monk_seal_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/neoSch1/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/neoSch1/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#hawaiian_monk_seal"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#hawaiian_monk_seal"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 <p>
 We would like to thank Alan F. Scott at Johns Hopkins University and NCBI for creating this new Hawaiian 
 monk seal assembly. We would also like to thank Hiram Clawson, Robert Kuhn, and Gerardo 
 Perez for the development and release of the neoSch1 genome browser.
 </p>
 
 <a name="120220"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 2, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; New and updated UniProt tracks for 117 assemblies</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce new and updated
 <a href="https://www.uniprot.org/" target="_blank"</a>UniProt tracks</a> for the
 following assemblies:</p><br>
@@ -7141,32 +7141,32 @@
     NCBI Genome ID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/52" target="_blank">52</a>
     (Mus musculus)</li>
   <li>
     NCBI Assembly ID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/7358741"
     target="_blank">7358741</a></li>
   <li>
     NCBI BioProject ID: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/20689"
     target="_blank">20689</a></li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 For more information about the files included in the GRCm39 GenBank submission, see the
 <a href="https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/000/001/635/GCA_000001635.9_GRCm39/README.txt"
 target="_blank">GRCm39 README</a>. The GRCm39 GenBank record provides a detailed array of
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000001635.27/" target="_blank">statistics about
 this assembly</a>. Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the
-Genome Browser <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm39/">FTP server</a> or
-the <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse" target="_blank">Downloads
+Genome Browser <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm39/">FTP server</a> or
+the <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse" target="_blank">Downloads
 page</a>. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators
 worldwide.</p>
 <p>
 We would like to thank the GRC and NCBI for creating this new mouse assembly. We would also like to
 thank Hiram Clawson and Jairo Navarro for the development and release of the mm39 genome browser.
 </p>
 
 <a name="102120"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 21, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; October 21st release for SARS-CoV-2 genome browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce our fourth data release for the <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=wuhCor1" 
 target="_blank">coronavirus genome browser</a>. (See also our <a 
 href="#040320">first</a>, <a href="#050420">second</a>, and <a href="#080720">third</a> 
 releases)</p>
 <p>
@@ -7233,31 +7233,31 @@
 identify selection sites of interest in SARS-CoV-2 data from <a 
 href="https://www.gisaid.org/about-us/mission/" target="_blank">GISAID</a>.</li>
 <li>
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&c=NC_045512v2&g=sarsCov2PhyloPub">
 Phylogenetic Tree and Variants from High-coverage Sequences in Public Databases</a>
 - This track displays a phylogenetic tree inferred from SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences 
 from <a 
 href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType_s=Nucleotide&VirusLineage_ss=SARS-CoV-2,%20taxid:2697049" 
 target="_blank">GenBank</a>, <a href="https://www.cogconsortium.uk/data/" 
 target="_blank">COG-UK</a> and the <a href="https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/release_genome" 
 target="_blank">China National Center for Bioinformation</a>, and variants found 
 in the sequences. It uses the phylogenetic tree from the <a 
 href="https://github.com/roblanf/sarscov2phylo/releases/tag/28-08-20" 
 target="_blank">sarscov2phylo 28-08-20</a> release, pruned to include only public 
 sequences. Since the public sequences are unrestricted, we can offer VCF files with 
-sequence variants for <a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/wuhCor1/sarsCov2PhyloPub/" 
+sequence variants for <a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/wuhCor1/sarsCov2PhyloPub/" 
 target="_blank">download</a>.</li>
 <li>
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&c=NC_045512v2&g=Starr_Bloom_antibody">
 Spike protein receptor-binding domain (S RBD) Deep Mutational Scanning</a> - Tracks created 
 from this data include:<ul>
 <li>
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&c=NC_045512v2&g=Starr_Bloom_antibody">
 S RBD Deep Mutational Scanning: Antibody Escape</a> - This track shows deep mutational 
 scanning data measuring the effect of the mutations to the Spike RBD to binding of antibodies 
 using a yeast surface display system.</li>
 <li>
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&c=NC_045512v2&g=Starr_Bloom_bind">
 S RBD Deep Mutational Scanning: ACE2 Binding</a> - This track shows deep mutational scanning 
 data measuring effect of all possible point (amino acid) RBD mutations on ACE2 binding 
 affinity using a yeast surface display system.</li>
@@ -7293,31 +7293,31 @@
 We would also like to thank <a href="http://www.robertlanfear.com/" target="_blank">
 Rob Lanfear</a>, <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.02.130955v1" 
 target="_blank">Irwin Jungreis</a>, <a href="http://zhanglab.net/" target="_blank">
 Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang</a>, <a href="http://public.gi.ucsc.edu/~jferna10/" target="_blank">
 Jason Fernandes</a>, <a href="https://snerli.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">
 Santrupti Nerli</a>, <a href="https://www.lji.org/faculty-research/labs/peters/#overview" 
 target="_blank">Bjoern Peters</a>,
 the <a href="https://research.fhcrc.org/bloom/en.html" 
 target="_blank">Bloom Lab</a>, the <a href="https://www.weizmann.ac.il/pages/" 
 target="_blank">Weizmann Institute of Science</a> and the <a href="https://gisaid.org/" 
 target="_blank">GISAID Initiative</a>.</p>
 <p>
 These tracks are made possible due to the worldwide efforts of scientists, including the 
 <a href="/staff.html" target="_blank">Genome Browser team</a>. We will continue to 
 provide SARS-COVID-2 resources as they become available. For the latest data, see our 
-<a href="http://genome-preview.soe.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=wuhCor1&position=lastDbPos" 
+<a href="http://genome-preview.gi.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=wuhCor1&position=lastDbPos" 
 target="_blank">development site</a>. Note that content on our preview server has not 
 undergone our QA process, and is subject to change at any time.</p>
 
 <a name="101520"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 15, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Ensembl gene tracks for 47 assemblies (v101)</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce an update to the
 <a href="http://uswest.ensembl.org/info/genome/genebuild/index.html" target="_blank">
 Ensembl gene annotation</a> tracks to <strong>v101</strong> for the
 following assemblies:</p><br>
 <div class="container">
   <div class="row">
   <div class="col-sm-4">
   <ul>
         <li>Armadillo <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=dasNov3&g=ensGene"
@@ -7721,32 +7721,32 @@
 TARGET='_blank'>4438481</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioProject ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/369439'
 TARGET='_blank'>369439</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioSample ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN11078986'
 TARGET='_blank'>SAMN11078986</A></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>5486</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>3,044,872,214</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#gorilla_credits">Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#gorilla_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a></li>
-  <li>FTP: <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gorGor6/" >Gorilla</a></li>
-  <li>Downloads page: <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#gorilla">Gorilla</a>
+  <li>FTP: <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gorGor6/" >Gorilla</a></li>
+  <li>Downloads page: <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#gorilla">Gorilla</a>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 
 
 <a name="082120"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 21, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; Wildfires in Santa Cruz County</h2>
 <p>
 Northern California and the county of Santa Cruz are experiencing  
 serious wildfires, including in the Santa Cruz mountains just north 
 of UCSC campus.  
 Campus has been evacuated and shutdowns are occurring.  We believe 
 that the Genome Browser will not be affected, but it is possible 
 that if power is lost, backup power will not last indefinitely.  
@@ -7785,31 +7785,31 @@
 <p>
 We should add that the Browser team wishes to express our sadness 
 and concern for the loss of property and displacement experienced by 
 many people in the UCSC community.  We are doing everything we can to 
 help those who need it.  It is possible that responses on the mailing 
 list will be delayed.
 </p>
 
 <a name="080720"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 7, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; Eight new data tracks for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID) </h2>
 <p>
 We are working hard to support the scientific effort against the COVID pandemic and are happy
 to announce eight new annotation tracks on the SARS-CoV-2 genome. These datasets reveal information
 about duplication regions, sequencing, gene identities, plasmid constructs,
 protein contact sites, and variant distribution. Like nearly all of our tracks, the data are open-access
-and downloadable through our <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#SARS-CoV-2">
+and downloadable through our <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#SARS-CoV-2">
 Downloads page</a> or <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTables">Table Browser</a> page. 
 More information on each of these datasets can be obtained by reading the data 
 track descriptions linked below.</p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=problematicSites">Problematic sites</a> shows 
 regions that are ambiguous and may warrant caution or masking for analysis.</li>
 <li><a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=rapid">RAPID Primers</a>
 marks regions that were successfully used for Nanopore sequencing. </li>
 <li><a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=unipCov2AliSwissprot">UniProt proteins</a>
 was updated and displays protein sequences mapped to the SARS-CoV-2 genome.</li>
 <li><a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=phyloGenes">PhyloCSF Genes</a>
 shows curated SARS-CoV-2 protein-coding genes conserved within the Sarbecovirus subgenus 
 as calculated with comparative genomics algorithms.</li>
 <li><a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=addgene">AddGene Plasmid Alignments</a>
 describes sequences contained in Addgene plasmids that align to the SARS-CoV-2 genomes.</li>
@@ -8063,49 +8063,49 @@
   <li><B>NCBI BioProject ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/526933'
 TARGET='_blank'>526933</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioSample ID:</B> <A HREF='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN11123633'
 TARGET='_blank'>SAMN11123633</A></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>4,357</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>3,051,901,337</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#bonobo_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#dog_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a></li>
-  <li>FTP: <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam4/" 
+  <li>FTP: <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam4/" 
 target="_blank" >Dog</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panPan3/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panPan3/" 
 target="_blank" >Bonobo</a></li>
-  <li>Downloads page: <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog"
+  <li>Downloads page: <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog"
 target="_blank" >Dog</a> and
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bonobo"
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bonobo"
 target="_blank" >Bonobo</li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="070720"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 07 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; Three new SARS-CoV-2 (COVID) variation and 
 comparative Genomics tracks published; 20th Anniversary of the Genome Browser</h2>
 <h3>New SARS-CoV-2 (COVID) Tracks</h3>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce three new SARS-CoV-2 (COVID) data track about coronavirus variation 
 and conservation. Like nearly all of our tracks, the data are open-access
-and downloadable through our <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#SARS-CoV-2">
+and downloadable through our <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#SARS-CoV-2">
 Downloads page</a> or <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTables">Table Browser</a> page. </p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=PhyloCSF_smooth">PhyloCSF (Codon Substitution 
 Frequency)</a> shows protein-coding potential score for each nucleotide in the genome in each
 of coding frame based on an aligning the SARS-CoV-2 genome with 44 Sarbecovirus genomes.</li> 
 <li><a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=microdel">Microdeletions</a> 
 shows sequence deletions found among thousands of SARS-CoV-2 genomes deposited in the 
 <a href="https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/next-hcov-19-app/" target="_blank">GISAID 
 database</a> (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data). </li>
 <li><a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=wuhCor1&g=multiz7way">Human CoV</a> shows an alignment
 between SARS-CoV-2 and six other human-infecting coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-1 and MERS.</li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 We would also like to thank the many people involved in this research and publication including 
 the researchers Irwin Jungreis at MIT, Brianna Sierra Chrisman at Stanford, and
@@ -8167,86 +8167,86 @@
  <li>Part 1:  Dissecting / Understanding the URL </li>
  <li>Part 2:  Links inside genes and more tricks for links </li>
  <li>Part 3:  Composite tracks and hosted custom tracks </li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 
 <p>
 Thanks to Robert Kuhn for production and to the Browser staff for all the features.
 <p>
 
 </p>
 
 <a name="062520"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 25, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; Vertebrate Genomes Project assembly hub update</h2>
 <p>
-We are proud to announce our first major update to the <a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/" 
+We are proud to announce our first major update to the <a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/" 
 target="_blank">Vertebrate Genomes Project assembly hub</a>. This is a follow up to our 
 <a href="#082819">initial release</a>, and expands the hub to 168 assemblies.</p>
 <p>
 With this update, we have created three additional hubs in addition to the main hub:</p>
 
 <ul>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/index.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/index.html">
 <b>Primary assembly (72)</b></a> - Main hub which contains the primary
 assemblies for each of the organisms.</li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpAlt.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpAlt.html">
 <b>Alternate/haplotype (68)</b></a> - Secondary hub which contains alternate 
 haplotype assemblies for a subset of the organisms in the primary hub.</li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpTrio.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpTrio.html">
 <b>Trio mat/pat (17)</b></a> - Secondary hub which contains trio assemblies (child, maternal,
 paternal) for a subset of the organisms in the primary hub.</li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpLegacy.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpLegacy.html">
 <b>Legacy/superseded (11)</b></a> - Hub containing previous assemblies that have since been updated.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 As with the previous release, all assemblies are built with a minimum set of data tracks including
 gene annotations, CpG islands, GC content, and repeat masking. <a target="_blank" 
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a> and 
-<a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/trackData.html">
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a> and 
+<a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/trackData.html">
 track statistics</a> are also available for all hubs. Links to the different pages are included
 below:</p>
 
 <p>
 <table border='1'><thead>
 <tr><th colspan=5 style='text-align:center;'>Available VGP assemblies</th></tr>
 <tr><th>Index pages:&nbsp;</th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/index.html'>primary assembly</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpAlt.html'>alternate/haplotype</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpTrio.html'>trio mat/pat</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpLegacy.html'>legacy/superseded</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/index.html'>primary assembly</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpAlt.html'>alternate/haplotype</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpTrio.html'>trio mat/pat</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpLegacy.html'>legacy/superseded</a></th>
 </tr><tr>
 <th>Assembly statistics:&nbsp;</th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/asmStats.html'>primary assembly</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpAltStats.html'>alternate/haplotype</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpTrioStats.html'>trio mat/pat</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpLegacyStats.html'>legacy/superseded</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/asmStats.html'>primary assembly</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpAltStats.html'>alternate/haplotype</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpTrioStats.html'>trio mat/pat</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpLegacyStats.html'>legacy/superseded</a></th>
 </tr><tr>
 <th>Track statistics:&nbsp;</th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/trackData.html'>primary assembly</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpAltData.html'>alternate/haplotype</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpTrioData.html'>trio mat/pat</a></th>
-<th><a href='https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpLegacyData.html'>legacy/superseded</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/trackData.html'>primary assembly</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpAltData.html'>alternate/haplotype</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpTrioData.html'>trio mat/pat</a></th>
+<th><a href='https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/vgpLegacyData.html'>legacy/superseded</a></th>
 </tr>
 </thead>
 </table></p>
 
 <p>
 All data are available from the UCSC download servers. For information on how to download
 specific assembly data, refer to the assembly gateway page once the hub is connected, e.g.
-<a href="../../cgi-bin/hgGateway?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/hub.txt&genome=GCA_004115265.2_mRhiFer1_v1.p" 
+<a href="../../cgi-bin/hgGateway?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/hub.txt&genome=GCA_004115265.2_mRhiFer1_v1.p" 
 target="_blank">greater horseshoe bat</a>. This page also includes information on starting
 a local BLAT server for the assembly.</p>
 <p>
 We would like to thank the <a href="https://vertebrategenomesproject.org/" 
 target="_blank">Vertebrate Genomes Project</a> and the <a href="https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/" 
 target="_blank">Genome 10k Project</a> for their sequencing efforts and making these genomes
 available. We would also like to thank Hiram Clawson and Luis Nassar from the Genome Browser team
 for the development and release of these assembly hubs.</p>
 
 <a name="061920"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 19, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Self Chain track for human (GRCh38/hg38)</h2>
 <p>
 We have updated the <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chr16&g=chainSelf">
 Self Chain</a> track for the human GRCh38/hg38 assembly. The Self Chain track shows
 alignments of the human genome with itself, using a gap scoring system that allows longer
@@ -8395,54 +8395,54 @@
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce new NCBI RefSeq assembly hubs for vertebrate genomes. Currently these
 hubs contain 295 assemblies, encompassing most RefSeq vertebrate genomes.</p> 
 <p>
 All assemblies contain multiple gene models including NCBI RefSeq annotations, and Ensembl gene
 predictions where available. Additional tracks include repeat masking and simple repeat data.
 A complete list of available tracks for each assembly can be found in the respective track
 statistics pages.</p>
 <p>
 The assemblies are divided into five categories. See the assembly statistics link below for a 
 complete list of available genomes in each hub. Assembly statistics such as genome size, 
 gaps, and masking are also available for each genome. Lastly, track statistics are also available
 displaying all available tracks for each assembly, as well as their genomic coverage.</p><br>
  
 <ul>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/index.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/index.html">
 </b>Primates</b></a> - <a target="_blank" 
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
-- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/trackData.html">
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
+- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/primates/trackData.html">
 Track statistics</a></li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/index.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/index.html">
 </b>Mammals</b></a> - <a target="_blank" 
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
-- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/trackData.html">
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
+- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/mammals/trackData.html">
 Track statistics</a></li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/index.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/index.html">
 </b>Birds</b></a> - <a target="_blank" 
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
-- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/trackData.html">
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
+- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/birds/trackData.html">
 Track statistics</a></li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/index.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/index.html">
 </b>Fish</b></a> - <a target="_blank" 
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
-- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/trackData.html">
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
+- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/fish/trackData.html">
 Track statistics</a></li>
-<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/index.html">
+<li><a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/index.html">
 </b>Other vertebrates</b></a> - <a target="_blank" 
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
-- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/trackData.html">
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/asmStats.html">Assembly statistics</a>
+- <a target="_blank" href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/vertebrate/trackData.html">
 Track statistics</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 These assemblies can be found on our list of <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgHubConnect">
 Public Hubs</a>, or by searching for a species by NCBI accession or name directly from the 
 <a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hgGateway">Gateway page</a>.</p>
 <p>
 We would like to thank NCBI RefSeq for making these data available. 
 We would also like to thank Hiram Clawson and Lou Nassar for the 
 development and release of these hubs.</p>
 
 <a name="052220"></a>
 <h2>May. 22, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated GENCODE gene tracks: Human V34 (hg19/hg38) - Mouse M25
 (mm10) and updated GTEx V8 gene expression track in hg38</h2>
@@ -9202,38 +9202,38 @@
 <h2>Mar. 17, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; New mitochondrial sequence for human (hg19)</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a patch to the hg19 assembly that will introduce a new
 mitochondrial sequence, <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg19&position=chrMT:4277-5648"
 target="_blank">chrMT</a>, to the assembly. We used GenBank sequence NC_001807 for chrM in hg19 and
 earlier, but the sequence preferred by the community is the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence
 (rCRS), <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/251831106" target="_blank">NC_012920</a>. The
 new chrMT is the rCRS, NC_012920. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/grc/help/patches/"
 target="_blank">Patch sequences</a> from
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_000001405.14" target="_blank">GRCh37.p13</a> have
 also been added to hg19.</p>
 <p>
 More information on how patch sequences are incorporated can be found on the
 <a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/patches/" target="_blank">Patching up the Genome</a> blog post.
 The blog post contains details about the new
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/latest/"
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/latest/"
 target="_blank">/latest</a> download directory on the downloads server. With the addition of new
 sequences to hg19, we can expect to see BLAT return more matches to the genome.</p>
 <p>
 Also, with these patches, the hg19 genome is not optimal anymore for aligners. So we added an
-&quot;<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/analysisSet/"
+&quot;<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/analysisSet/"
 target="_blank">analysis set</a>&quot; version of the hg19 genome fasta file to our
-<a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/" target="_blank">bigZips</a>
+<a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/" target="_blank">bigZips</a>
 directory, and indexes for BWA, Bowtie2, and Hisat2.</p>
 <p>
 We would like to thank the Genome Reference Consortium for creating the patches to hg19. We would
 also like to thank Angie Hinrichs and Jairo Navarro at UCSC for implementing and testing the latest
 patch to hg19.</a>
 
 <a name="022720"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 27, 2020 &nbsp;&nbsp; New NCBI RefSeq Select + MANE track for Human (hg38)</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce a new track, RefSeq Select+MANE, for the <a 
 target="_blank" href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chr1&g=refSeqComposite">GRCh38/hg38</a> 
 human assembly. This track is a combination of NCBI transcripts with the <em>RefSeq Select</em> 
 tag, as well as transcripts with the <em>MANE Select</em> tag. The result is a track with a 
 single representative transcript for every protein-coding gene. The track can be 
 found as part of the NCBI RefSeq composite track.</p>
@@ -9458,33 +9458,33 @@
 While processing the information downloaded from dbSNP, UCSC annotates some properties of 
 interest. These are noted on the item details page, and may be used to include or exclude 
 affected variants. These UCSC notes (currently 26) can be divided into three categories:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>Information about ClinVar status, allele frequencies reported by twelve projects, and 
 the presence of other variants at the same genomic position</li>
   <li>Notes about rare variants or ambiguous nucleotides in the reference genome</li>
   <li>Indicators that allele frequency data might be incomplete and/or mapping variants across 
 different assemblies had issues with indel differences between assemblies</li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>Data Access</h3>
 <p>
 With the bigDbSnp format, these data will no longer be available as a database table dump. The
 complete data can be found across two separate files in our download server, a bigBed file 
-(bigDbSnp) for <a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg19/snp/">hg19</a> 
-and <a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/snp/">hg38</a>, and a 
-<a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hgFixed/dbSnp/">shared secondary 
+(bigDbSnp) for <a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg19/snp/">hg19</a> 
+and <a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/snp/">hg38</a>, and a 
+<a target="_blank" href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hgFixed/dbSnp/">shared secondary 
 details file</a> which holds additional variant details.<p>
 <p>
 Additional information including visibility display, a complete list of UCSC notes, and a methods 
 section can be found in the <a target="_blank" 
 href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=dbSnp153Composite">track description 
 page</a>.</p>
 <p>
 We would like to thanks the dbSNP group at NCBI for providing access to these data. We would 
 also like to thank Angie Hinrichs and the UCSC Genome Browser team for their efforts on this
 release.</p>
 
 <a name="112719a"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 27, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; New EPD TSS track for human and mouse</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of the new EPDnew Promoters track for human
@@ -9847,75 +9847,75 @@
   <li><B>NCBI BioProject ID:</B> <A HREF="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/476474"
 TARGET="_blank">476474</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioSample ID:</B> <A HREF="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN09435472"
 TARGET="_blank">SAMN09435472</A></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>2,979</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>2,971,331,530</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#rhesus_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#rhesus_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac10/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac10/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rhesus"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rhesus"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="082819"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 28, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; Vertebrate Genomes Project assembly hub</h2>
 
 <p>
-The UCSC Genome Browser is proud to announce its <a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/" 
+The UCSC Genome Browser is proud to announce its <a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/" 
 target="_blank">Vertebrate Genomes Project assembly hub</a>. The <a 
 href="https://vertebrategenomesproject.org/" target="_blank">Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP)</a> 
 aims to generate near error-free reference genome assemblies of all 70,000 extant 
 vertebrate species.</p>
 
 <p>
-As of now, the <a href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/" 
+As of now, the <a href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/" 
 target="_blank">VGP assembly hub</a> includes 24 vertebrate assemblies. See our <a 
-href="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/asmStatsVGP.html" 
+href="https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/asmStatsVGP.html" 
 target="_blank">assembly statistics page</a> for specific information (gap counts, 
 masking percent, genome size, etc.) on each individual assembly. All assemblies have a 
 combination of Genome Browser generated data tracks, as well as external data. These include:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>Augustus gene predictions on all assemblies, as well as imported NCBI gene predictions 
 when available.</li>
   <li>A RefSeq mRNAs track which is generated in-house, mapping RefSeq mRNAs from various other 
 organisms to each individual assembly. This track includes origin mRNA species and gene names, 
 which may help to identify genes on the less annotated assemblies.</li>
   <li>CpG island and GC percent tracks.</li>
   <li>Repeat masking tracks by both RepeatMasker and WindowMasker + SDust.</li></ul>
 <p>
 These tracks also include individual track description pages with a summary of their contents 
 or results where applicable. Such as a summary of all RepeatMasker elements found in the 
-<a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/hub.txt&genome=hub_1489433_GCA_007474595.1_mLynCan4_v1.p&g=hub_1489433_repeatMasker" 
+<a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/hub.txt&genome=hub_1489433_GCA_007474595.1_mLynCan4_v1.p&g=hub_1489433_repeatMasker" 
 target="_blank">Canada lynx</a> or gene count and genome coverage of NCBI genes for the 
-<a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/hub.txt&genome=hub_1489433_GCF_004115215.1_mOrnAna1.p.v1&g=hub_1489433_ncbiGene" 
+<a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/hub.txt&genome=hub_1489433_GCF_004115215.1_mOrnAna1.p.v1&g=hub_1489433_ncbiGene" 
 target="_blank">platypus</a>.</p>
 
 <p>
 All data are available from the UCSC download servers. For information on how to download 
 specific assembly data, refer to the assembly gateway page once the hub is connected. Here 
 is an example of the gateway page for the 
-<a href="../../cgi-bin/hgGateway?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/hub.txt&genome=GCA_004115265.2_mRhiFer1_v1.p" 
+<a href="../../cgi-bin/hgGateway?hubUrl=https://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/VGP/hub.txt&genome=GCA_004115265.2_mRhiFer1_v1.p" 
 target="_blank">greater horseshoe bat</a>. This page also includes information on starting 
 a local BLAT server for the assembly.</p>
 
 <p>
 We would like to thank the <a href="https://vertebrategenomesproject.org/" 
 target="_blank">Vertebrate Genomes Project</a> and the <a href="https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/" 
 target="_blank">Genome 10k Project</a> for their sequencing efforts and making these genomes 
 available. We would also like to thank Hiram Clawson and Luis Nassar from the Genome Browser team 
 for the development and release of this assembly hub.</p>
 
 <a name="073119"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 31, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browser: Horse, equCab3 (<em>Equus caballus</em>)</h2>
 <p>
 A genome browser is now available for the <em>Equus caballus</em> assembly released in Jan. 2018 by the
 <a href="https://louisville.edu/medicine/" target="_blank"> University of Louisville</a> (EquCab3.0).
@@ -9934,33 +9934,33 @@
   <li><b>NCBI BioProject ID:</b> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/421018"
 target="_blank">421018</a></li>
   <li><b>NCBI BioSample ID:</b> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN02953672"
 target="_blank">SAMN02953672</a></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>4,701</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>2,506,966,135</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#horse_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#horse_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/equCab3/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/equCab3/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#horse"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#horse"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="071919"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 19, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; New GENCODE V31 gene tracks for human, hg19 and hg38</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of the new GENCODE Gene annotation tracks, which corresponds
 to the <a href="http://www.ensembl.info/2019/05/20/whats-coming-in-ensembl-97-ensembl-genomes-44/"
 target="_blank">Ensembl 97 release</a> for human assemblies, <a target="_blank"
 href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=wgEncodeGencodeV31lift37">hg19/GRCh37</a> and
 <a target="_blank" href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=wgEncodeGencodeV31">hg38/GRCh38</a>.
 All GENCODE V31 annotations are available for hg38/GRCh38, and the annotation release was
 back-mapped to the hg19/GRCh37 assembly. For both hg19 and hg38, the GENCODE v31 gene set contains
 the following tracks:</p>
@@ -10006,31 +10006,31 @@
 <p> 
 The TransMap tracks are an attempt to map features, such as mRNAs, ESTs, and gene annotations
 from one organism to another through pairwise, whole-genome alignments. These new TransMap tracks
 are:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>Ensembl Mappings</li>
   <li>RefSeq Gene Mappings</li>
   <li>GenBank RNA Mappings</li>
   <li>EST Mappings</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 You can read more about how these tracks were created on the
 <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=transMapV5" target="_blank">track description page</a> 
 for the hg38/GRCh38 version of these tracks. The TransMapV4 data can still be found in our 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/" target="_blank">download server</a>.</p>
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/" target="_blank">download server</a>.</p>
 
 <p>
 Thanks to Mark Diekhans and Lou Nassar for their work in creating and releasing these tracks.</p>
 
 <a name="070919"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 9, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; Expanded CRISPR track released for human (hg19/GRCh37)</h2> 
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of an expanded
  <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg19&hideTracks=1&knownGene=pack&crisprAllTargets=pack&position=chr7:116397500-116398000" target="_blank">CRISPR Targets track</a> for the human 
 hg19/GRCh37 assembly. This track shows the DNA sequences targetable by CRISPR RNA guides 
 using the Cas9 enzyme from <i>S. pyogenes</i> (PAM: NGG) over the entire human genome. CRISPR target
 sites were annotated with predicted specificity (off-target effects) and predicted efficiency
 (on-target cleavage) by various algorithms through the tool 
 <a href="http://crispor.tefor.net/" target="_blank">CRISPOR</a>. 
 </p>
@@ -10114,37 +10114,37 @@
   <li><B>NCBI BioProject ID:</B> <A HREF="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/54005"
 TARGET="_blank">54005</A></li>
   <li><B>NCBI BioSample ID:</B> <A HREF="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN02981400"
 TARGET="_blank">SAMN02981400</A></li>
   <li><b>Scaffold count: </b>71,135</li>
   <li><b>Total size: </b>2,959,373,024</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#Baboon_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a></li>
-  <li>FTP: <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau9/" 
+  <li>FTP: <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau9/" 
 target="_blank" >Cow</a> and 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/papAnu4/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/papAnu4/" 
 target="_blank" >Baboon</a></li>
-  <li>Downloads page: <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow"
+  <li>Downloads page: <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow"
 target="_blank" >Cow</a> and 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#baboon"
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#baboon"
 target="_blank" >Baboon</li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="062519"></a>
 <h2> Jun. 25, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; JSON API now available</h2>
 <p>
 The UCSC Genome Browser is pleased to announce its new <a href="help/api.html" 
 target="_blank">JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Application Programming 
 Interface (API)</a>. The API provides direct access to different 
 data including annotations and sequence data for both native Genome Browser assemblies as 
 well as hubs.</p>
 
 <p>
 Some functions possible with the API include:
@@ -10277,33 +10277,33 @@
   <li><b>NCBI BioProject information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJEB21211" 
 target="_blank" > PRJEB21211</a></li>
   <li><b>NCBI BioSample information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMEA104116709"
 target="_blank" > SAMEA104116709</a></li>
   <li><b>Contig+scaffold count:</b> 71,598</li>
   <li><b>Total size:</b> 2,358,908,658</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#chinese_hamster_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#chinese_hamster_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/criGriChoV2/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/criGriChoV2/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chinese_hamster"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chinese_hamster"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="052119"></a>
 <h2>May 21, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browser: Cat, felCat9 (<em>Felis catus</em>)</h2>
 <p>
 A genome browser is now available for the <em>Felis catus</em> assembly released in November 2017 by the
 <a href="https://www.genome.wustl.edu/" target="_blank">Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University (WashU) School of Medicine</a> (Felis_catus_9.0).
 <h3>About the assembly:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><b>UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID:</b> felCat9</li>
   <li><b>Sequencing/Assembly provider ID:</b> <a href="https://www.genome.wustl.edu/" target="_blank">
   Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University (WashU) School of Medicine</a></li>
   <li><b>Assembly date:</b> November 2017</li>
@@ -10315,33 +10315,33 @@
   <li><b>NCBI BioProject information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/16726" 
 target="_blank" > 16726</a></li>
   <li><b>NCBI BioSample information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN02953640"
 target="_blank" > SAMN02953640</a></li>
   <li><b>Contig+scaffold count:</b> 9434</li>
   <li><b>Total size:</b> 2,521,863,845</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#cat_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#cat_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat9/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat9/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 
 
 <a name="041019"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 10, 2019 &nbsp;&nbsp; GENCODE Genes VM20 track released for mouse (GRCm38/mm10)</h2>
 <p>
 We are  pleased to announce the release of the GENCODE Genes VM20 track for the Mouse assembly
 (<a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=mm10&position=chr12%3A56694976-56714605&hideTracks=1&knownGene=full&ignoreCookie=1"
 target="_blank">GRCm38/mm10</a>). 
 In this GENCODE Genes update, we have made the ENSMUST* IDs the default IDs and have added
 the GENCODE pseudogenes to the knownGene tables.
 </p>
@@ -10718,33 +10718,33 @@
   <li><b>NCBI BioProject information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/13342" 
 target="_blank" > 13342</a></li>
   <li><b>NCBI BioSample information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN02981218"
 target="_blank" > SAMN02981218</a></li>
   <li><b>Contig+scaffold count:</b> 1928</li>
   <li><b>Total size:</b> 1,065,365,425</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#chicken_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#chicken_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal6/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal6/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chicken"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chicken"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="111918"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 19, 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browser: Orangutan, ponAbe3 (<em>Pongo pygmaeus abelii
 </em>)</h2>
 <p>
 A genome browser is now available for the <em>Pongo pygmaeus abelii</em> assembly released in January 2018 by the
 <a href="http://www.gs.washington.edu/" target="_blank"> University of Washington</a> (Susie_PABv2).
 <h3>About the assembly:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><b>UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID:</b> ponAbe3</li>
   <li><b>Sequencing/Assembly provider ID:</b> <a href="http://eichlerlab.gs.washington.edu/index.html">
 University of Washington</a></li>
@@ -10757,33 +10757,33 @@
   <li><b>NCBI BioProject information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/369439" 
 target="_blank" > 369439</a></li>
   <li><b>NCBI BioSample information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN06275555" 
 target="_blank" > SAMN06275555</a></li>
   <li><b>Contig+scaffold count:</b> 5,300</li>
   <li><b>Total size:</b> 3,065,052,215</li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#orangutan_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#orangutan_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
   <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ponAbe3/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ponAbe3/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#orangutan"
+  <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#orangutan"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 </p>
 
 <a name="111618"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 16, 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; GENCODE Genes v29 track released for human (GRCh38/hg38)</h2>
 <p>
 We are  pleased to announce the release of the GENCODE Genes v29 track for the Human
 (<a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=hg38" target="_blank">GRCh38/hg38</a>) 
 assembly. In this GENCODE Genes update, we have made the ENST* IDs the default IDs and have added
 the GENCODE pseudogenes to the knownGene tables. 
 </p>
 <p>
 More details about the GENCODE Genes v29 track can be found on the
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=knownGene" target="_blank">GENCODE Genes track description
@@ -10922,32 +10922,32 @@
   <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/305108" target="_blank">anoGam3</a>. </li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3>Garter snake <a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=thaSir1">(Thamnophis_sirtalis-6.0/thaSir1)</a>
 </h3>
 <ul>
   <li>Assembly released Jun. 2015 by <a href="https://www.genome.wustl.edu/"
   target="_blank">The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine</a>.</li>
   <li>There are 7,930 scaffolds with a total size of 1,424,897,867 bases.</li>
   <li>For more information about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for
   <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/472161" target="_blank">thaSir1</a>.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">Genome Browser FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads page</a>. Please observe the
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">Genome Browser FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads page</a>. Please observe the
 <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads.html#download2">conditions of use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC
 and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/credits.html">Credits</a> for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to these releases.</p>
 
 <a name="081018"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 10, 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; New interact track type</h2>
 <p>
 The UCSC Genome Browser is proud to announce a new method to visualize interactions between regions
 of the genome. The interact track format (and the binary-indexed bigInteract version) displays
 pairwise interactions as arcs or half-rectangles connecting two genomic regions on the same
 chromosome. Cross-chromosomal interactions can also be represented in this format. This format is
 useful for displaying functional element interactions such as SNP/gene interactions, and is also
 suitable for low-density chromatin interactions, such as ChIA-PET, and other use cases with a
@@ -11327,32 +11327,32 @@
    <li><b>NCBI Assembly information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/1474531" 
       target="_blank"> 1474531</a> <em> (Pmar_germline 1.0) </em></li>
    <li><b>BioProject information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/357048" 
       target="_blank"> 357048</a></li>
    <li><b>BioSample information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN06131802" 
       target="_blank"> SAMN06131802</a></li>
    <li><b>Contig+scaffold count:</b> 36,453</li>
    <li><b>Total size:</b> 1,130,417,696</li>
    <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#lamprey_credits" target="_blank">Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
    <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#lamprey_use" target="_blank">
        Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
    <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" target="_blank">Rsync</a> and 
-       <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/petMar3/" target="_blank">FTP</a></li>
-   <li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lamprey" target="_blank">
+       <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/petMar3/" target="_blank">FTP</a></li>
+   <li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lamprey" target="_blank">
        Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 <a name="022018"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 20, 2018 &nbsp;&nbsp; New video:  Visibility control in the Browser </h2>
 <p>
 We have released a new video demonstrating the
 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKix2B3hwnw&list=UUQnUJepyNOw0p8s2otX4RYQ"
    target=_blank>visibility controls</a> in the Browser.
  In our Browser <a href = "http://bit.ly/ucscTraining" target = _blank>training
  workshops</a> we are often asked about the meaning of the track controls:
  squish, dense, pack and full.  In this tutorial we describe the controls for
  BED, wiggle and conservation tracks.  There is also a discussion of visibility 
  control in composite tracks (2-level nesting) and supertracks (3-level).
 
@@ -11745,33 +11745,33 @@
 <li><b>BioProject information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/169343" 
 target="_blank" > NCBI Bioproject: 169343</a></li>
 <li><b>BioSample information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMEA1029457" 
 target="_blank" > NCBI Biosample: SAMEA1029457</a></li>
 <li><b>Contig+scaffold count:</b> 132,340</li>
 <li><b>Total size:</b> 3,286,643,896</li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#bonobo_credits" 
 target="_blank">Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#bonobo_use" 
 target="_blank">Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank">Rsync</a> and 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panPan2/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panPan2/" 
 target="_blank">FTP</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bonobo"
+<li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bonobo"
 target="_blank">Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 <a name="121317"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 13, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New NCBI RefSeq Functional Elements tracks for human and mouse</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new set of 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/functionalelements/" target="_blank">functional
 regulatory elements</a> for the <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=refSeqFuncElems"
 target="_blank">hg38/GRCh38</a> and <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm10&g=refSeqFuncElems"
 target="_blank">mm10/GRCm38</a> assemblies. NCBI is now providing
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/" target="_blank">RefSeq</a> and
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/" target="_blank">Gene</a> records for non-genic
 functional elements that have been described in the literature and are experimentally validated.
 Elements in scope include experimentally-verified gene regulatory regions, known structural
@@ -11848,33 +11848,33 @@
 <li><b>BioProject information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/12348" 
 target="_blank" > NCBI Bioproject: 12348</a></li>
 <li><b>BioSample information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN00000117" 
 target="_blank" > NCBI Biosample: SAMN00000117</a></li>
 <li><b>Contig+scaffold count:</b> 68,152</li>
 <li><b>Total size:</b> 1,440,398,454</li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#xentro_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#xentro_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro9/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro9/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xentro"
+<li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xentro"
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 <a name="112117"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 21, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New NCBI RefSeq tracks for mouse, mm10</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new set of gene annotation tracks for the mm10/GRCm38
 assembly based on data from NCBI's Reference Sequence Database (RefSeq). For all of these tracks,
 the alignments and coordinates are provided by RefSeq. These tracks are organized in a composite
 track that includes:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>RefSeq All &ndash; all annotations from the curated and predicted sets
   <li>RefSeq Curated &ndash; curated annotations beginning with NM, NR, or NP
   <li>RefSeq Predicted &ndash; predicted annotations beginning with XM or XR
   <li>RefSeq Other &ndash; all other RefSeq annotations not included in RefSeq All
@@ -11915,33 +11915,33 @@
 <li><b>BioProject information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/338693" 
 target="_blank" > NCBI Bioproject: 338693</a></li>
 <li><b>BioSample information:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN04518361" 
 target="_blank" > NCBI Biosample: SAMN04518361</a></li>
 <li><b>Contig/scaffold count: </b>108,033</li>
 <li><b>Total size:</b> 2,718,433,805</li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#african_clawed_frog_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#african_clawed_frog_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenLae2/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenLae2/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#african_clawed_frog" 
+<li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#african_clawed_frog" 
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 
 <a name="111317"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 13, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New genome browser: Pig, susScr11 <em>(Sus scrofa)</em> </h2>
 <p>Please welcome <a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=susScr11" target="_blank" 
 >susScr11</a>, the 191st genome assembly in the UCSC Genome Browser. This is the third assembly in
 the browser for pig <em>(Sus scrofa)</em> .</p>
 <h3>About the assembly:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li><b>UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID:</b> susScr11</li>
 <li><b>Sequencing/Assembly provider ID:</b> The Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium (SGSC) 
 Sscrofa11.1</li>
 <li><b>Assembly date:</b> Feb. 2017</li>
@@ -11953,33 +11953,33 @@
 <li><b>BioProject ID:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/13421" 
 target="_blank" > 13421</a></li>
 <li><b>BioSample ID:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN02953785" 
 target="_blank" > SAMN02953785</a></li>
 <li><b>Contig/scaffold count: </b>613</li>
 <li><b>Total size:</b> 2,501,912,388</li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#pig_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#pig_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/susScr11/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/susScr11/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#pig" 
+<li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#pig" 
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 <a name="110717"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 07, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New genome browser: Chinese hamster <em>(Cricetulus griseus)</em> 
 ovary cell line, CHO-K1</h2>
 <p>Please welcome <a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=criGriChoV1" target="_blank" 
 >criGriChoV1</a>, the 190th genome assembly in the UCSC Genome Browser. This assembly marks the 
 first cell line to reside in the browser; the Chinese hamster <em>(Cricetulus griseus)</em> ovary 
 cell line, CHO-K1.</p>
 <h3>About the assembly:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li><b>UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID:</b> criGriChoV1</li>
 <li><b>Sequencing/Assembly provider ID:</b> Beijing Genomics Institute CriGri_1.0</li>
 <li><b>Assembly date:</b> Aug. 2011</li>
@@ -11991,50 +11991,50 @@
 <li><b>BioProject ID:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/69991" 
 target="_blank" > 69991</a></li>
 <li><b>BioSample ID:</b><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/SAMN02981352" 
 target="_blank" > SAMN02981352</a></li>
 <li><b>Contig/scaffold count: </b>109,152</li>
 <li><b>Total size:</b> 2,399,786,748</li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#chinese_hamster_credits" 
 target="_blank" >Acknowledgments</a></li>
 </ul>
 <h3>Data and Downloads:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#chinese_hamster_use" 
 target="_blank" >Data use conditions and restrictions</a></li>
 <li><a href="../goldenPath/help/ftp.html" 
 target="_blank" >Rsync</a> and 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/criGriChoV1/" 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/criGriChoV1/" 
 target="_blank" >FTP</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chinese_hamster" 
+<li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chinese_hamster" 
 target="_blank" >Downloads page</a></li>
 </ul>
 
 <a name='110217'></a>
 <h2>Nov. 2, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Zebrafish assembly danRer11 available!</h2>
 <p>
 A genome browser is now available for the Zebrafish (<em>Danio rerio</em>) assembly released in
 May 2017 by The Genome Reference Consortium. For more information and statistics
 about this assembly, see the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000002035.6/">
 NCBI assembly record</a> for GRCz11. There are 20,680 contigs and 2,848 scaffolds in this assembly 
 with a total size of 1,679,203,469 bases.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the <a
-href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer11">Genome Browser FTP
-server</a> or the <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">Downloads
+href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer11">Genome Browser FTP
+server</a> or the <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">Downloads
 page</a>. Please observe the <a href="https://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQdownloads.html#download2">
 conditions for use</a> when accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this 
 browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#zebrafish_credits">Credits page</a> for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.
 </p>
 
 <a name="102717"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 27, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; Public European UCSC MariaDB server now available!</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce that a public MariaDB server of UCSC Genome Browser
 data is now available in Europe! This should speed up programmatic access to
 the underlying MariaDB databases for users in Europe. Connect to this new MariaDB
 server using the command:</p>
 <pre><code> mysql --user=genome --host=genome-euro-mysql.soe.ucsc.edu -A</code></pre>
@@ -12079,41 +12079,41 @@
 
 <p>
 <b><a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=gtexEqtlTissue" target="_blank">hg19: GTEx Tissue eQTL
 </a></b></br>This track is a composite track containing 44 subtracks representing the GTEx eQTL 
 tissues. Each subtrack contains all eQTLs identified for that tissue. Filtering is available for 
 all 44 subtracks.</p>
 
 <p>
 These two tracks join the previously released GTEx data tracks and track hubs in the UCSC Genome
 Browser:
 <ul>
 <li><a href="../cgi-bin/hgGtexTrackSettings?db=hg19&g=gtexGene"
 target="_blank">GTEx Gene</a></li>
 <li><a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=gtexTranscExpr" target="_blank">
 GTEx Transcript</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtex/gtexHub.html" target="_blank">
+<li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtex/gtexHub.html" target="_blank">
 GTEx RNA-Seq Signal Hub</a> on <a href="
-../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&hubUrl=http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtex/hub.txt" 
+../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&hubUrl=http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtex/hub.txt" 
 target="_blank">hg19</a> and 
-<a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&hubUrl=http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtex/hub.txt" 
+<a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&hubUrl=http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtex/hub.txt" 
 target="_blank">hg38</a>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtexAnalysis/gtexAse.html" target="_blank">
+<li><a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtexAnalysis/gtexAse.html" target="_blank">
 GTEx Analysis Hub: Allele-Specific Expression</a> on <a href="
 ../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&hubUrl=
-http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtexAnalysis/gtexAnalysisHub.html" target="_blank">hg19</a> and 
-<a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&hubUrl=http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtexAnalysis/gtexAnalysisHub.html" 
+http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtexAnalysis/gtexAnalysisHub.html" target="_blank">hg19</a> and 
+<a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&hubUrl=http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/gtexAnalysis/gtexAnalysisHub.html" 
 target="_blank">hg38</a>.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 Please see the related October 11, 2017 publication in <i>Nature</i>,
 &quot;<a href="https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7675/full/nature24277.html" 
 target="_blank">Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues</a>&quot; for an in-depth 
 article about these data.</p>
 
 <p>
 Acknowledgments to UCSC Genome Browser engineer, Kate Rosenbloom, for creating these tracks.
 </p>
 
 <a name="092917"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 29, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; VAI tool can now output HGVS terms</h2>
@@ -12298,31 +12298,31 @@
 href="mailto:&#103;e&#110;&#111;&#109;e&#64;&#115;&#111;&#101;.&#117;&#99;&#115;c.&#101;d&#117;">&#103;e&#110;&#111;&#109;e&#64;&#115;&#111;&#101;.&#117;&#99;&#115;c.&#101;d&#117;</a>.</p>
 <!-- above address is genome at soe.ucsc.edu --> 
 <p>
 We would like to thank Hiram Clawson, Maximilian Haeussler, Christopher Lee, and Jairo Navarro for
 the development and release of these tracks.</p>
 
 <a name="071417"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 14, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New alternative mouse strain hub and strain-specific annotations</h2>
 <p>
 A mouse strain assembly hub is now available and shows an alignment of 16 assembled laboratory mice
 strains, including the reference mouse (mm10) as well as the reference rat (rn6). This hub contains
 some of the most common mice strains used in disease models such as NOD, BALB/c, and C3H. Each
 mouse strain in the assembly hub is displayed as the primary sequence along with strain-specific
 annotations. You can load this hub from our <a href="../cgi-bin/hgHubConnect"
 target="_blank">Public Hubs</a> or the following
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/mouseStrains/hubIndex.html" target="_blank">page</a>.
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/hubs/mouseStrains/hubIndex.html" target="_blank">page</a>.
 </p>
 <p>
 Along with the release of this assembly hub, a new track is available for mm10. The
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm10&g=strainSNPs" target="_blank">Mouse SNPs</a> track shows
 single nucleotide variants between the different strains of mice and all SNP and indel calls are
 relative to the reference mouse genome (GRCm38/mm10).</p>
 <p>
 Special thanks to Joel Armstrong, Ian Fiddles, and Benedict Paten for the alignment generation, as
 well as Thomas Keane and the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/data/mouse-genomes-project"
 target="_blank">Mouse Genomes Project</a> for providing the genome assemblies. Thanks to Hiram 
 Clawson and Jairo Navarro for the development and release of this track and hub.</p>
 
 <a name="2017-07-14"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 14, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Video:  Multi-Region mode for viewing 
 discontinuous regions in the Browser</h2>
@@ -12402,31 +12402,31 @@
 how you can get boxplots of data points to show up on track item 
 <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgc?db=hg38&c=chr9&l=133255601&r=133275214&o=133257408&t=133275201&g=gtexGene&i=ABO">
 details pages</a>? Well, look no
 further as we have just released support for a GTEx style 
 <a href="help/barChart.html">barChart track format</a>. This new track format is
 available for use with custom tracks, and in binary format (bigBarChart) for use in track hubs. 
 Both barChart and bigBarChart formats support external matrix and sample files specifying data 
 points for a boxplot display on details pages, while the barChart/bigBarChart file typically 
 specifies summary values (mean or median) over the matrix, which determines the bar heights. See 
 the <a href="help/barChart.html">documentation</a> for further explanation and examples. 
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Along with the release of this new track format are some tools that help to create the tracks,
 <code>expMatrixToBarchartBed</code> and <code>bedJoinTabOffset</code>. Both utilities are free for
-all use cases, and can be downloaded from our <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe">
+all use cases, and can be downloaded from our <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/admin/exe">
 directory of utilities</a>. For more information about this new track format and helper scripts, 
 please see the <a href="help/barChart.html">help documentation</a>.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Thanks to Kate Rosenbloom, Christopher Eisenhart and Christopher Lee for the development
 and testing of this new track format. 
 </p>
 
 <a name="060817"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 8, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New command line tool for annotating variants, vai.pl</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new command-line tool for annotating variants, 
 <code>vai.pl</code>. This program is similar to our web-based 
 <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgVai">Variant Annotation Integrator (VAI)</a>, except it allows for bypassing 
@@ -12446,64 +12446,64 @@
 Thanks to Angie Hinrichs and Christopher Lee for the development and testing of the program.</p>
 
 <a name="060617"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 6, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New genome browser available for ciona intestinalis</h2>
 <p>
 A genome browser is now available for the ciona intestinalis(<em>vase tunicate</em>)
 assembly released in April 2011 by The Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University. 
 For more information and statistics
 about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000224145.1/" target="_blank">
 Ciona intestinalis</a>.
 There are 6,381 contigs and 1,272 scaffolds in this assembly with a total size of
 115,227,500 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ci3/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ciona">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ci3/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ciona">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#ciona">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="credits.html#ciona_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <a name="060217"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 2, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New default tracks for human and mouse assemblies</h2>
 <p>
 We have made several changes to the sets of default tracks for some of our human and
 mouse assemblies. The
 <a href="https://genome-blog.gi.ucsc.edu/blog/gtex-resources-in-the-browser/" target="_blank">GTEx
 Gene Expression</a> track is now part of the set of default tracks for both human genome assemblies
 hg38 and hg19. In addition, we have added the
 <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&g=dgvPlus">DGV Struct Var</a> track, which displays large
 structural variant such as CNVs, inversions and in/dels, to the default track set for
 the human genome assembly hg19. Lastly, for the mouse genome assembly mm10, we have added the
 <a href="../../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm10&g=cons60way">60-way Vertebrate Conservation</a> track to
 its set of default tracks.</p>
 
 <a name="051617"></a>
 <h2>May 16, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New genome browser available for golden eagle</h2>
 <p>
 A genome browser is now available for the golden eagle (<em>Aquila chrysaetos canadensis</em>)
 assembly released in October 2014 by Washington University. For more information and statistics
 about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_000766835.1/" target="_blank">Aquila_chrysaetos-1.0.2</a>.
 There are 17,032 contigs and 1,142 scaffolds in this assembly with a total size of
 1,192,743,076 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/aquChr2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#golden_eagle">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/aquChr2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#golden_eagle">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#golden_eagle_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="credits.html#golden_eagle_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="051517"></a>
 <h2>May 15, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New TransMap annotation tracks released</h2>
 <p>We are pleased to announce the release of a new set of TransMap V4 tracks for nearly 70
 different assemblies.</p>
 
 <p> The TransMap tracks are an attempt to map features, such as mRNAs, ESTs,and gene predictions
 from one organism to another through pairwise, whole-genome alignments. These new TransMap tracks
 are:
 <ul>
@@ -12585,69 +12585,69 @@
 
 <img src="../images/highlightScreenshot2017.png" alt="Highlight screenshot" width="899"
 height="602"></p>
 
 <a name="042117"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 21, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browser available for Chinese pangolin</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Chinese pangolin (<em>Manis pentadactyla</em>) assembly 
 released in August 2014 by Washington University. For more information and statistics about this
 assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_000738955.1/" target="_blank">M_pentadactyla-1.1.1</a>.
 There are 230,930 contigs and 92,772 scaffolds in this assembly with a total size of
 2,204,741,241 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/manPen1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chinese_pangolin">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/manPen1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chinese_pangolin">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#chinese_pangolin_credits">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="credits.html#chinese_pangolin_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 
 <a name="042017"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 20, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browsers available for Tibetan frog and American Bison</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Tibetan frog (<em>Nanorana parkeri</em>) assembly released
 in March 2015 by the Bejing Genomics Institute. For more information and statistics about this
 assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000935625.1/" target="_blank">BGI_ZX_2015</a>.
 There are 147,513 contigs and 25,188 scaffolds in this assembly with a total size of
 2,053,867,363 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/nanPar1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tibetan_frog">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/nanPar1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tibetan_frog">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#tibetan_frog_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="credits.html#tibetan_frog_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the American bison (<em>Bison bison bison</em>) assembly
 released in October 2014 by U.Maryland.
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/8907" target="_blank">Bison_UMD1.0</a>.
 There are 470,415 contigs and 128,431 scaffolds in this assembly
 with a total size of 2,828,031,685 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bisBis1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bison">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bisBis1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bison">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#bison_credits">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="credits.html#bison_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="032017"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 20, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; 20 Species Conservation Track now available on RGSC 6.0/rn6</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new Conservation track based on the rat
 (RGSC 6.0/rn6) assembly. This track shows multiple alignments of 20 vertebrate species and
 measurements of evolutionary conservation using two methods (phastCons and phyloP) from the
 PHAST package for all species. The multiple alignments were generated using multiz and other
 tools in the UCSC/Penn State Bioinformatics comparative genomics alignment pipeline. Conserved 
 elements identified by phastCons are also displayed in this track. For more details, visit the
@@ -12679,66 +12679,66 @@
 examples to our <a href="help/hgTrackHubHelp.html#Compatibility">help documentation</a> that show 
 how to use hubCheck to test track hub compatibility.</p> 
 
 <a name="031517a"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 15, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browsers available for
 Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey, Proboscis Monkey, and Turkey</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey (<em>Rhinopithecus 
 roxellana</em>) assembly released in October 2014 by Novogene.
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000769185.1/" target="_blank">Rrox_v1</a>.
 There are 196,797 contigs and 135,512 scaffolds in this assembly
 with a total size of 2,899,552,139 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rhiRox1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#golden_snub-nosed_monkey">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rhiRox1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#golden_snub-nosed_monkey">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#golden_snub-nosed_monkey_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="credits.html#golden_snub-nosed_monkey_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Proboscis Monkey (<em>Nasalis larvatus</em>)
 assembly released in November 2014 by the Proboscis Monkey Functional Genome Consortium.
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_000772465.1/" target="_blank">Charlie1.0</a>.
 There are 553,412 contigs and 319,549 scaffolds in this assembly
 with a total size of 3,011,966,170 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/nasLar1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#proboscis_monkey">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/nasLar1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#proboscis_monkey">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#proboscis_monkey_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="credits.html#proboscis_monkey_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Turkey (<em>Meleagris gallopavo</em>)
 assembly released in November 2014 by the Turkey Genome Consortium.
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000146605.2/" target="_blank">Turkey_5.0</a>.
 There are 296,331 contigs and 233,806 scaffolds in this assembly
 with a total size of 1,128,339,136 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/melGal5/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#Turkey">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/melGal5/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#Turkey">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#Turkey">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets.  The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="credits.html#Turkey">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="030317"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 3, 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; New NCBI RefSeq tracks released</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new set of gene annotation tracks
 for the hg38/GRCh38 assembly based on data from NCBI's Reference Sequence Database (RefSeq).
 For all of these tracks, the alignments and coordinates are provided by RefSeq.
 These tracks are organized in a composite track that includes:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>RefSeq All &ndash; all annotations from the curated and predicted sets
@@ -12900,64 +12900,64 @@
 <p>
 For example, aliases that now map to chr1 are NC_000001.11, CM000663.2, and 1, so that a hg38 search
 such as CM000663.2 16,560,000 16,615,000 will be equivalent to chr1 16,560,000 16,615,000.</p>
 
 <a name="102416"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 24, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browsers for chimpanzee, green monkey and gorilla now available</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Chimp (<em>Pan troglodytes</em>)
 assembly released in May 2016 by the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium.
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/733711" target="_blank">Pan_tro 3.0</a>.
 There are 26 different chromosomes along with 72,326 contigs and 45,511 scaffolds in this assembly
 with a total size of 3,231,170,666 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panTro5/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chimp">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panTro5/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chimp">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#chimp_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets.  The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#chimp_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Green Monkey (<em>Chlorocebus sabaeus</em>)
 assembly released in March 2014 by the Vervet Genomics Consortium.
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/132581" target="_blank">Chlorocebus_sabeus 1.1</a>.
 There are 32 different chromosomes along with 162,724 contigs and 2,022 scaffolds in this assembly
 with a total size of 2,789,656,328 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/chlSab2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#green_monkey">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/chlSab2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#green_monkey">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#green_monkey_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets.  The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.  See the 
 <a href="credits.html#green_monkey_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Gorilla (<em>Gorilla gorilla gorilla</em>)
 assembly released in March 2016 by the University of Washington.
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/705391" target="_blank">GSMRT3</a>.
 There are 15,997 contigs, Contig N50 of 10,016,017 in this assembly
 with a total size of 3,080,414,926 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gorGor5/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#gorilla">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gorGor5/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#gorilla">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#gorilla_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and 
 using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and 
 collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#gorilla_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="101716"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 17, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; HGVS nomenclature now supported in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the first release of our support for 
 <a href="http://www.hgvs.org/" target="blank">Human Genome Variation Society</a> (HGVS) 
 nomenclature in the Genome Browser. Navigate directly to individual nucleotides or codons using
 coordinates in the following formats:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>NM_198576.3(AGRN):c.1057C>T</li>
   <li>NM_198056.2:c.1654G>T</li>
@@ -12969,32 +12969,32 @@
 The gene-name format uses RefSeq genes to identify the codon. In the next 
 release we will add support for nomenclature describing coding (c.) 
 intron and UTR coordinates as well as insertions, deletions and duplications.  </p>
 
 <a name="083116"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 31, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser for chicken now available</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Chicken (<em>Gallus gallus</em>)
 assembly released December 2015 by the International Chicken Genome Consortium (ICGC).
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/595851" target="_blank">Gallus_gallus-5.0</a>.
 There are 36 different chromosomes along with 23,439 contigs/scaffolds in this assembly
 with a total size of 1,230,258,557 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal5/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chicken">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal5/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chicken">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#chicken_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets.  The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.  See the <a
 href="credits.html#chicken_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="083016"></a>
 <p>
 <h2>Aug. 30, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Allele-specific expression in 53 tissues from GTEx Analysis Hub now
 available</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of Allele Specific Expression (ASE) data for the human hg19 
 and hg38 assemblies. ASE data from the <a href="http://tllab.org" target="_blank">Lappalainen 
 Lab</a> at the New York Genome Center is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser as a public track 
 hub.  This track hub contains ASE data identified from transcriptome and genotype
@@ -13047,32 +13047,32 @@
 The tracks were produced at UCSC by Angie Hinrichs and Christopher Lee. We'd like to thank the dbSNP
 group at NCBI for providing access to these data.</p>
 
 <a name="081216"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 12, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser for Malayan flying lemur now available</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Malayan flying lemur (<em>Galeopterus variegatus</em>)
 assembly released June 2014 by 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/galeopterus-variegatus/"
 target="_blank">The Genome Institute at Washington University</a>. For more information and 
 statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/182621" target="_blank"> G_variegatus-3.0.2</a>. There
 are 179,514 scaffolds with a total size of 3,187,660,572 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galVar1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#malayan_flying_lemur">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galVar1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#malayan_flying_lemur">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#malayan_flying_lemur_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC
 and collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#malayan_flying_lemur_credits">Credits</a>
 page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="063016_2"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 30, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; CRAM files now supported</h2>
 <p>
 We are excited to announce the support of <a href="help/cram.html" target="_blank">CRAM</a> files 
 on the Browser!</p>
 <p>
 CRAM files, which are more dense than BAM files, use an additional external &quot;reference 
 sequence&quot; file to both compress and decompress the read information. For CRAM tracks to load 
 there is an expectation that the checksum of the reference sequence used to create the CRAM file 
 will be in the CRAM header and be accessible from the 
@@ -13390,67 +13390,67 @@
 The tracks were produced at UCSC by Angie Hinrichs and Matthew Speir. We'd like to thank the dbSNP
 group at NCBI for providing access to these data.</p>
 
 <a name="041516_1"></a>
 <p>
 <h2>Apr. 15, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Three new assemblies now available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the gorilla (<em>Gorilla gorilla gorilla</em>) assembly 
 released December 2014 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. For more information and statistics
 about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/503571" target="_blank">gorGor4</a>.  
 There are 25 complete chromosomes alongside 40,667 scaffolds with a total size of 3,063,362,754 
 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gorGor4/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#gorilla">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gorGor4/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#gorilla">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#gorilla_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#gorilla_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the rhesus monkey (<em>Macaca mulatta</em>) assembly 
 released November 2015 by the
 <a href="https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/non-human-primates/rhesus-monkey-genome-project"
 target="_blank">Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center</a>. 
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/2715158" target="_blank"> Mmul_8.0.1</a>. There are 
 23 complete chromosomes alongside 284,705 scaffolds with a total size of 3,236,224,332 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac8/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rhesus">Downloads</a> page. Please observe 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac8/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rhesus">Downloads</a> page. Please observe 
 the <a href="credits.html#rhesus_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using these data 
 sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.  
 See the <a href="credits.html#rhesus_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the crab-eating macaque (<em>Macaca fascicularis</em>)
 assembly released June 2013 by the
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/macaca-fascicularis/"
 target="_blank">Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University, St. Louis</a>. For more 
 information about this assembly, see <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/704988"
 target="_blank">Macaca_fascicularis_5.0</a> in the NCBI Assembly database. There are 22 complete 
 chromosomes alongside 7,579 scaffolds with a total size of 2,946,843,737 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/macFas5/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#crab-eating_macaque">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/macFas5/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#crab-eating_macaque">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#crab-eating_macaque_use">conditions for use</a> when
 accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#crab-eating_macaque_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="040416"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 4, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; New video shows how to obtain sequence or coordinates for exons. </h2>
 <p>
 We have released a new <a href="http://genome.ucsc.edu/training/vids/index.html#vid08" 
 target="_blank">video</a> to our YouTube channel. This newest installment in our effort to share the
 capabilities of the Genome Browser shows how to use the Table Browser to obtain either the 
 sequences or the coordinates for exons in the genes from a chosen region of the genome.</p>
 <p>
 We also want to take this opportuinty to remind you that we offer onsite 
@@ -13491,49 +13491,49 @@
 Table Browser</a>. Simply select &quot;mail card deck&quot; from the &quot;output format&quot; 
 menu, and then enter your name and address on the subsequent page. Please allow 4-6 weeks for 
 delivery.</p>
 
 <a name="032116"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 21, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browsers for <em>C. elegans</em> and brown kiwi now 
 available</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the <em>Caenorhabditis elegans</em> assembly released February
 2013 by the C. elegans Sequencing Consortium (C. elegans Sequencing Consortium version WBcel235, 
 UCSC version ce11). For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly 
 record for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/554278" target="_blank">WBcel235</a>.
 There are 7 complete chromosomes with a total size of 100,286,401 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce11/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#c_elegans">Downloads</a> page. Please observe
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce11/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#c_elegans">Downloads</a> page. Please observe
 the <a href="credits.html#ce_credits">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using these data 
 sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See
 the <a href="credits.html#ce_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the brown kiwi (<em>Apteryx australis</em>) assembly released 
 June 2015 by the <a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/index.html"
 target="_blank">Max-Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology</a> (MPI-EVA version AptMan0,
 UCSC version aptMan1). For more information and statistics about this assembly, see
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_001039765.1"
 target="_blank">AptMant0</a> in the NCBI Assembly database. There are
 24,719 scaffolds with a total size of 1,523,986,457 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/aptMan1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#brown_kiwi">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/aptMan1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#brown_kiwi">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#brown_kiwi_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and 
 using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and 
 collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#brown_kiwi_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="030816"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 8, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Combine multiple regions of the Genome Browser into a single 
 visualization</h2>
 <p>
 Have you ever wished you could remove all of the intronic or intergenic regions from the
 Genome Browser display? Have you ever dreamed of being able to visualize multiple
 far-flung regions of a genome? Well, now you can with the new &quot;multi-region&quot; option
 in the Genome Browser!</p>
 <p>
 The multi-region modes provide four different ways to manipulate the display.
@@ -13571,49 +13571,49 @@
 
 <a name="021016"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 10, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; Two new assemblies now available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the mouse lemur (<em>Microcebus murinus</em>) assembly 
 released May 2015 by the 
 <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/scientific-community/science/projects/mammals-models/29-mammals-project" 
 target="_blank">The Broad Institute</a> and the
 <a href="https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/non-human-primates/mouse-lemur-genome-project"
 target="_blank">Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center</a>. 
 For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/329621" target="_blank"> Mmur_2.0</a>.  
 There are 10,311 scaffolds with a total size of 2,438,804,424 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/micMur2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse_lemur">Downloads</a> page. Please 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/micMur2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse_lemur">Downloads</a> page. Please 
 observe the <a href="credits.html#mouse_lemur_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using 
 these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators 
 worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#mouse_lemur_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list 
 of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the platypus (<em>Ornithorhynchus anatinus</em>) assembly 
 released February 2007 by the 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/ornithorhynchus-anatinus/"
 target="_blank">Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University, St. Louis</a>. For more information
 about this assembly, see <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/237598/" target="_blank">
 Ornithorhynchus_anatinus-5.0.1</a> in the NCBI Assembly database. There are 201,525 scaffolds with 
 a total size of 1,996,826,513 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ornAna2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#platypus">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ornAna2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#platypus">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#platypus_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and 
 using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and 
 collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#platypus_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="012016"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 20, 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; dbSNP 142 available for mm10</h2>
 <p>
 Data from dbSNP build 142 is now available for the most recent mouse assembly (mm10/GRCm38). As was 
 the case for previous annotations based on dbSNP data, there are three tracks in this release. One 
 is a track containing all mappings of reference SNPs to the mouse assembly, labeled &quot;All SNPs 
 (142)&quot; The other two tracks are subsets of this track and show different interesting and easily
 defined subsets of dbSNP: </p>
 <ul>
   <li>
@@ -13661,47 +13661,47 @@
 
 <!-- ============= 2015 archived news ============= -->
 <a name="2015"></a>
 <a name="122115"></a>
 <p>
 <h2>Dec. 21, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; Two new assemblies now available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the frog (<em>Xenopus tropicalis</em>) assembly released 
 Sept. 2012 by the <a href="http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/" target="_blank">US DOE Joint Genome Institute
 (JGI-PGF)</a> (JGI v7.0, UCSC version xenTro7). For more information and statistics about this 
 assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/515038" 
 target="_blank">Xtropicalis_v7</a>. There are 7,728 scaffolds with a total size of 1,437,530,879
 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro7/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xentro">Downloads</a> page. Please observe 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro7/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xentro">Downloads</a> page. Please observe 
 the <a href="credits.html#xentro_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using these data 
 sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators woldwide. 
 See the <a href="credits.html#xentro_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the cat (<em>Felis catus</em>) assembly released Nov. 2014 by 
 the International Cat Genome Sequencing Consortium (ICGSC version Felis_catus_8.0, UCSC version 
 felCat8). For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/1373248" target="_blank">Felis_catus_8.0</a>. 
 There are 267,625 scaffolds with a total size of 2,641,342,258 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat8/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat8/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#cat_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using 
 these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators 
 woldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#cat_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="121615"></a>
 <p>
 <h2>Dec. 16, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; Output from related tables now available in the Data
 Integrator</h2>
 <p>
 In the UCSC Genome Browser database, detailed information on the annotations for many tracks
 is stored in extra tables. This information can include things such as identifiers
 in other databases, transcript status, or other descriptive information. You can now obtain
 data from these related tables in your output from the
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgIntegrator">Data Integrator</a>.</p>
@@ -13873,32 +13873,32 @@
 More details about the new GENCODE Basic track can be found on the
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&g=knownGene">
 GENCODE Basic track description page</a>.</p>
 
 <a name="062615"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 26, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; New bonobo (panPan1) assembly now available in the Genome
 Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the May 2012 assembly of bonobo, 
 <em>Pan paniscus</em> (Max-Planck Institute panpan1, UCSC version panPan1). The assembly was 
 provided by the <a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/" target="_blank">Max-Planck Institute for 
 Evolutionary Anthropology</a>. There are 10,867 scaffolds with a total size of 2,869,190,071 
 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panPan1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bonobo">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panPan1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#bonobo">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="credits.html#bonobo_credits">specific conditions for use</a>. The bonobo (panPan1) browser 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#bonobo_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="061215"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 12, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; Data Integrator</h2>
 <p>
 Have you ever wished that the Table Browser could associate your custom track items with some other 
 track, while retaining the item names from both? We have released a new tool that can do just that, 
 and more: the Data Integrator.</p>
 <p>
 Using the Data Integrator you can select up to five tracks, including custom tracks
 and hub tracks, and output tab-separated text that contains all the fields from both
 the first track and the overlapping items from the other track(s). If you need only
@@ -13984,32 +13984,32 @@
 This new format is available for use in custom tracks and data hubs. For more information about 
 bigGenePred, please see our 
 <a href="help/bigGenePred.html">bigGenePred Track Format help page</a>.</p>
 
 <a name="040215b"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 2, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; New tarsier (tarSyr2) assembly now available in the Genome
 Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the Sep. 2013 assembly of tarsier, 
 <em>Tarsius syrichta</em> (WashU Tarsius_syrichta-2.0.1, UCSC version tarSyr2). The whole genome 
 shotgun assembly was provided by <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/tarsius-syrichta/"
 target="_blank">Washington University</a>. There are 337,189 scaffolds with a total size of 
 3,453,864,774 bases.</p>   
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/tarSyr2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tarsier">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/tarSyr2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tarsier">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="credits.html#tarsier_credits">specific conditions for use</a>. The tarsier (tarSyr2) 
 browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#tarsier_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="040215a"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 2, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; New training video</h2>
 <p>
 Going crazy counting amino acids? Learn an easier way to find the codon number in our new video. 
 See our <a href="../training/index.html" target="_blank">training page</a> or our
 <a href="http://bit.ly/genomebrowserYoutube" target=_"blank">YouTube channel</a> for details.</p>
 
 <a name="040115"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 1, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; New GRCz10 zebrafish assembly now available</h2>
 <p>
@@ -14018,32 +14018,32 @@
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/zebrafish/"
 target="_blank">Genome Reference Consortium</a>, who took over the improvement and
 maintenance of the zebrafish genome assembly.</p>
 <p>
 The GRCz10 assembly improves upon Zv9 by utilizing optical mapping and additional meiotic
 mapping to fill gaps with new clone sequence and improve the positioning of assembly
 components.  This has also been supplemented with a new whole genome shotgun assembly
 WGS31. The result is an assembly with a sequence length of 1.3 Gb in 26 chromosomes and
 1,035 scaffolds.  For more details about the GRCz10 assembly, see the
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/210611"
 target="_blank">GRCz10 assembly page</a> or the official
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/10-08-2014-zebrafish-grcz10-annotated/"
 target="_blank">GRCz10 announcement</a>.</p>
 <p>
 The danRer10 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer10/">FTP server</a> or
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page.</p>
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer10/">FTP server</a> or
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page.</p>
 <p>
 We'd like to thank the Genome Reference Consortium for providing this assembly. The UCSC
 zebrafish Genome Browser was produced by Hiram Clawson, Brian Raney and Steve Heitner. See 
 <a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#zebrafish_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list
 of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="032015"></a>
 <p>
 <h2>Mar. 20, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; New visualization option for RepeatMasker</h2>
 <p>
 We are excited to announce the release of the new RepeatMasker Visualization track for the
 hg38 and mm10 assemblies. This new RepeatMasker track displays detailed information that
 includes the amount of unaligned repeat sequence and lines joining repeat fragments.
 Additionally, repeats are now colored based on their repeat class. This new RepeatMasker
 track incorporates a new details page that includes the detailed RepeatMasker output and
@@ -14056,78 +14056,78 @@
 target="_blank">Institute for Systems Biology</a> and the UCSC Genome Browser. We would like to 
 thank Robert Hubley, Arian Smit, Hiram Clawson, and Matthew Speir for their efforts in creating this
 track.</p>
 
 <a name="030315"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 3, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; Use UDR for quick sizable downloads</h2>
 <p>
 The UCSC Genome Browser is pleased to share a download protocol to use when downloading large sets 
 of files from our download servers: <strong>UDR (UDT Enabled Rsync)</strong>. UDR utilizes rsync
 as the transport mechanism, but sends the data over the UDT protocol, which enables huge amounts of 
 data to be downloaded efficiently over long distances.</p>
 <p>
 We now have two identical download servers to better serve your needs. You can use either one:
 <ul>
   <li>
-  <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu" target="_blank">http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu</a></li>
+  <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu" target="_blank">http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu</a></li>
   <li>
   <a href="http://hgdownload-sd.sdsc.edu" target="_blank">http://hgdownload-sd.sdsc.edu</a></li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 <strong>The background</strong></p>
 <p>
 Typical TCP-based protocols like http, ftp and rsync have a problem in that the further
 away the download source is from you, the slower the speed becomes. Protocols like UDT/UDR
 allow for many UDP packets to be sent in batch, thus allowing for much higher transmit speeds
 over long distances. UDR will be especially useful for users who are downloading from
 locations distant to California. <em>The US East Coast and the international community will
 likely see much higher download speeds by using UDR rather than rsync, http or ftp.</em></p>
 <p>
 <strong>Getting UDR & setting it up on your system</strong></p>
 <p>
 It should be noted that UDR is not written or managed by UCSC, it was written by the
 Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Chicago. It has been tested to work
 under Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OSX, but may work under other UNIX variants. The source code can
 be obtained here, through GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/LabAdvComp/UDR" 
 target="_blank">https://github.com/LabAdvComp/UDR</a></p>
 <p>
 If you need help building the UDR binaries or have questions about how UDR functions,
 please read the documentation on the GitHub page, and if necessary, contact the UDR authors
 via the GitHub page. We recommend reading the documentation on the UDR GitHub page to better
 understand how UDR works. UDR is written in C++. UDR is Open Source and is released under the
 Apache 2.0 License. You must first have rsync installed on your system.</p> 
 <p>
 For your convenience, we are offering a binary distribution of UDR for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x 
 and 7.x (or variants such as CentOS 6/7 or Scientific Linux 6/7). You'll find the rpm packages 
-here: <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/udr" 
-target="_blank">http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/udr</a>.</p>
+here: <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/admin/udr" 
+target="_blank">http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/admin/udr</a>.</p>
 <p>
 For RHEL 6 we have 32-bit and 64-bit packages, but for RHEL 7 we have dropped the 32-bit and offer 
 onlya 64-bit package. Those who need a 32-bit package for RHEL 7 can download the source and compile
 it locally.</p>
 <p>
 <strong>Example of using UDR to download ENCODE data from the UCSC Genome Browser Download
 Server</strong></p>
 <p>
 Once you have a working UDR binary, either by building from source or by installing the rpm
 (if you are using RHEL 6.x or other variant), you can download files from either of our 
 download servers in a fashion very similar to rsync. For example, using rsync, you may want
 to download all of the ENCODE information for the mm9 database using the command:</p>
-<pre><code>$ rsync -avP rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm9/encodeDCC/ /my/local/mm9/</code></pre>
+<pre><code>$ rsync -avP rsync://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm9/encodeDCC/ /my/local/mm9/</code></pre>
 <p>
 Using UDR is very similar. The UDR syntax for downloading the same data would be:</p>
-<pre><code>$ udr rsync -avP hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu::goldenPath/mm9/encodeDCC/ /my/local/mm9/</code></pre>
+<pre><code>$ udr rsync -avP hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu::goldenPath/mm9/encodeDCC/ /my/local/mm9/</code></pre>
 <p>
 If you installed the rpm, use the 'man udr' command for more information via the man page;
 if you installed from source please refer to the UDR GitHub page for more details on the
 capabilities of UDR and how to use it.</p>
 <p>
 <strong>Firewall Considerations</strong></p>
 <p>
 UDR establishes connections on TCP/9000, then transmits the data stream over UDP/9000-9100.
 Your institution may need to modify its firewall rules to allow inbound and outbound ports
 TCP/9000 and UDP/9000-9100 from either of the two download machines.</p>
 <p>
 If you decide to install and use UDR, we hope that you experience greatly increased download
 speeds. If you have difficulties installing UDR on your system, please contact the Laboratory
 for Advanced Computing through their github page: <a href="https://github.com/LabAdvComp/UDR"
 target="_blank">https://github.com/LabAdvComp/UDR</a>.</p>
@@ -14178,32 +14178,32 @@
   Flagged SNPs (142): uniquely mapped variants, excluding Common SNPs, that have been flagged by
   dbSNP as &quot;clinically associated&quot;</li>
   <li>
   Mult. SNPs (142): variants that have been mapped to more than one genomic location</li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 By default, only the Common SNPs (142) are visible; other tracks must be made visible using the 
 track controls. You will find the other SNPs (142) tracks on both of GRCh37/hg19 and GRCh38/hg38 
 browsers in the Variation group.</p>
 <p>
 The tracks were produced at UCSC by Angie Hinrichs and Jonathan Casper. We'd like to thank the 
 dbSNP group at NCBI for providing access to these data.</p>
 <p>
 As part of this release, we are also retiring the older dbSNP Build 135 and 137 data from display 
 on the GRCh37/hg19 human assembly. Those tracks will still be available for viewing on our
-<a href="http://genome-preview.soe.ucsc.edu" target="_blank">preview server</a>, and the associated 
-masked FASTA files will continue to be available on our <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu" 
+<a href="http://genome-preview.gi.ucsc.edu" target="_blank">preview server</a>, and the associated 
+masked FASTA files will continue to be available on our <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu" 
 target="_blank">download server</a>. </p>
 
 <a name="020215"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 2, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; Host a Genome Browser workshop</h2>
 <p>
 New timeslots are now available to host a Genome Browser workshop at your institution. Thanks to the
 funding support of NHGRI, we offer hands-on Genome Browser training onsite at your institution, 
 tailored to your audience's level of expertise.</p>
 <p>
 For more information or to submit a request to host a workshop, please visit 
 <a href="http://bit.ly/ucscTraining" target="_blank">our sign-up page</a>.</p>
 
 <a name="012315"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 23, 2015 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser YouTube channel</h2>
 <p>
@@ -14249,51 +14249,51 @@
 PeptideAtlas team at the Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle for providing this data.</p>
 
 <!-- ============= 2014 archived news ============= -->
 <a name="2014"></a>
 <a name="121914"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 19, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; New cow (bosTau8) assembly now available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the June 2014 assembly
 of cow, <i>Bos taurus</i> (Bos_taurus_UMD 3.1.1, UCSC version bosTau8). This updated cow 
 assembly was provided by the  <a href="http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/"
 target="_blank">UMD Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology</a> (CBCB). This assembly is
 an update to the previous UMD 3.1 (bosTau6) assembly.  UMD 3.1 contained 138 unlocalized contigs 
 that were found to be contaminants.  These have been suppressed in UMD 3.1.1.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau8/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau8/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#cow_credits">specific conditions for use</a>. The cow browser 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#cow_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
  
 <a name="121214"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 12, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; New <em>D. melanogaster</em> (dm6) assembly now available</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the August 2014 assembly of 
 <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> (BDGP Release 6, UCSC version dm6). This updated <em>D.
 melanogaster</em> assembly was provided by the  <a href="http://www.fruitfly.org/"
 target="_blank">Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project</a> (BDGP). Please see
 <a href="http://flybase.org/static_pages/feature/previous/articles/2014_07/FB2014_04.html"
 target="_blank">this announcement</a> on the FlyBase website for more details about this
 updated <em>D. melanogaster</em> assembly.</p>
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm6/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fruitfly">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm6/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fruitfly">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#dm_credits">specific conditions for use</a>.
 The <i>D. melanogaster</i> (dm6) browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators 
 worldwide. See the
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#dm_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="102914"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 9, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser in a Box (GBiB)</h2>
 <p>
 Sometimes you just want to keep your genomics data to yourself. Have you ever hesitated when 
 uploading your data set into the UCSC Genome Browser? If so, you'll be happy to know that we have 
 created a stand-alone personal version: Genome Browser in a Box (GBiB). If you have sensitive 
 genomics data that you would like to view securely on your own laptop in the context of the UCSC
 Genome Browser, GBiB is for you.</p>
 <p>
@@ -14374,32 +14374,32 @@
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KM034562" target="_blank">KM034562</a>) 
 submitted by the Broad Institute. We have worked closely with the Pardis Sabeti lab at 
 the Broad Institute and other Ebola experts throughout the world to incorporate
 annotations that will be useful to those studying Ebola. Annotation tracks included in this
 initial release include genes from <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/"
 target="_blank">NCBI</a>, B- and T-cell epitopes from the <a href="http://www.iedb.org/"
 target="_blank">IEDB</a>, structural annotations from <a href="http://www.uniprot.org/"
 target="_blank">UniProt</a> and a wealth of SNP data from the
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25214632" target="_blank">2014 publication</a>
 by the Sabeti lab. This initial release also contains a 160-way alignment
 comprising 158 Ebola virus sequences from various African outbreaks and 2 Marburg virus sequences.
 You can find links to the Ebola virus Genome Browser and more information on the Ebola virus
 itself on our <a href="../ebolaPortal/">Ebola Portal</a> page.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/eboVir3/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ebola_virus">Downloads</a> page. The Ebola 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/eboVir3/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ebola_virus">Downloads</a> page. The Ebola 
 virus (eboVir3) browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See 
 the <a href="credits.html#ebola_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release and conditions for use of these data.</p>
 
 <a name="092314"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 23, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; Ensembl Regulatory Build now available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce that data from the 
 <a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/genome/funcgen/regulatory_build.html"
 target="_blank">Ensembl Regulatory Build</a> is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser
 as a public track hub for both hg19 and hg38. This track hub contains promoters and their
 flanking regions, enhancers, and many other regulatory features predicted across a number
 of cell lines using annotated segmentation states. Click
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg19&position=chr21%3A33031597-33041570&hubUrl=http://ngs.sanger.ac.uk/production/ensembl/regulation/hub.txt">here</a>
 to view this hub on the hg19 assembly, or click
@@ -14446,65 +14446,65 @@
 <a name="073014"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 30, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; New rat (rn6) assembly now available</h2> 
 <p>
 We are excited to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the July 2014 assembly
 of rat, <em>Rattus norvegicus</em> (RGSC Rnor_6.0, UCSC version rn6)! This
 assembly is provided by the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium, which is comprised of
 eight research organizations across the United States and Canada and led by the
 <a href="https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/" target="_blank">Baylor College of Medicine</a>.
 The new RGSC Rnor_6.0 assembly contains a new, partially assembled Y chromosome
 as well as improvements to other regions of the genome. You can find more information
 on the RGSC's efforts to sequence rat genome on the Baylor College of Medicine's
 <a href="https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/other-mammals/rat-genome-project" target="_blank">project 
 page</a>.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn6/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rat">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn6/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rat">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#rat_use">specific conditions for use</a>. The rat (rn6) browser 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#rat_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release. </p>
 
 <a name="071514b"></a>
 <p>
 <h2>Jul. 15, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; New shrew (sorAra2) assembly available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the August 2008 assembly of shrew, 
 <em>Sorex araneus</em> (Broad SorAra2.0, UCSC version sorAra2). The whole genome shotgun assembly 
 was provided by <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/" target="_blank">The Broad Institute</a>.
 There are 12,845 scaffolds with a total size of 2,423,158,183 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sorAra2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#shrew">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sorAra2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#shrew">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#shrew_credits">specific conditions for use</a>. The shrew 
 (sorAra2) browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#shrew_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="071514a"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 15 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; New pika (ochPri3) assembly released in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the May 2012 assembly of pika, 
 <em>Ochotona princeps</em> (Broad OchPri3.0, UCSC version ochPri3). The whole genome shotgun 
 assembly was provided by <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/" target="_blank">The Broad 
 Institute</a>.  There are 10,420 scaffolds with a total size of 2,229,835,716 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ochPri3/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#pika">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ochPri3/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#pika">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#pika_credits">specific conditions for use</a>. The pika (ochPri3) 
 browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#pika_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="061914"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 19, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; Conservation track released for rat</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new Conservation track based on the rat 
 (RGSC 5.0/rn5) assembly. This track shows multiple alignments of 13 vertebrate species and 
 measurements of evolutionary conservation using two methods (phastCons and phyloP) from the 
 PHAST package for all species. The multiple alignments were generated using multiz and other
 tools in the UCSC/Penn State Bioinformatics comparative genomics alignment pipeline. Conserved 
 elements identified by phastCons are also displayed in this track. For more details, visit the 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=rn5&g=cons13way"> track description page</a>.</p>
@@ -14590,84 +14590,84 @@
 >UCSC Genes track description page</a>.</p>
 <p>
 Many thanks to Brian Raney, Jim Kent, and Luvina Guruvadoo for their work on this track.</p>
 
 <a name="050914"></a>
 <h2>May 9, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; Three new assemblies now available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Chinese hamster (<em>Cricetulus griseus</em>) assembly 
 released July 2013 by the <a href="http://www.genomics.cn/en/index" target="_blank">Beijing Genomics
 Institution-Shenzhen</a> (BGI version C_griseus_v1.0, UCSC version criGri1). For more information 
 and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/40911" target="_blank">C_griseus_v1.0</a>. There are 
 52,711 scaffolds with a total size of 2,360,146,428 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/criGri1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chinese_hamster">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/criGri1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chinese_hamster">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#chinese_hamster_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing 
 and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and 
 collaborators woldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#chinese_hamster_credits">Credits</a> page for 
 a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the hedgehog (<em>Erinaceus europaeus</em>) assembly released 
 May 2012 by the <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/" target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>
 (Broad version EriEur2.0, UCSC version eriEur2). For more information and statistics about this 
 assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/426148" 
 target="_blank">EriEur2.0</a>. There are 5,802 scaffolds with a total size of 2,715,720,925 
 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/eriEur2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#hedgehog">Downloads</a> page. Please observe 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/eriEur2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#hedgehog">Downloads</a> page. Please observe 
 the <a href="credits.html#hedgehog_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using these data 
 sets.  The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators woldwide. 
 See the <a href="credits.html#hedgehog_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 <hr>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the zebra finch (<em>Taeniopygia guttata</em>) assembly 
 released February 2013 by <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/taeniopygia-guttata/"
 target="_blank">The Genome Institute at Washington University</a> (WUSTL version 
 Taeniopygia_guttata-3.2.4, UCSC version taeGut2). For more information and statistics about this 
 assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/524908" 
 target="_blank">Taeniopygia_guttata-3.2.4</a>. There are 37,096 scaffolds with a total size of 
 1,232,135,591 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/taeGut2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebra_finch">Downloads</a> page. Please 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/taeGut2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebra_finch">Downloads</a> page. Please 
 observe the <a href="credits.html#zebra_finch_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using 
 these data sets.  The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators 
 woldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#zebra_finch_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of
 the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="050814"></a>
 <h2>May 8, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; New elephant shark (calMil1) assembly now available</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the elephant shark (<em>Callorhinchus milii</em>)
 assembly released December 2013 by the <a href="http://www.imcb.a-star.edu.sg/"
 target="_blank">Singapore Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology</a> (IMCB version 
 Callorhinchus_milii-6.1.3, UCSC version calMil1). For more information and statistics about this 
 assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/85971" 
 target="_blank"> Callorhinchus_milii-6.1.3</a>. There are 21,204 scaffolds with a total size of 
 974,498,586 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/calMil1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#elephant_shark">Downloads</a> page.
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/calMil1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#elephant_shark">Downloads</a> page.
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#elephant_shark_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing 
 and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and 
 collaborators woldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#elephant_shark_credits">Credits</a> page for 
 a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="050614"></a>
 <h2>May 6, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; Introducing the new stacked overlay for multi-wiggle tracks</h2>
 <p>
 We are excited to announce the release of the new stacked overlay method for multi-wiggle tracks. 
 This new stacked overlay method displays each graph stacked on top of each other.</p>
 <p>
 <img src="../images/stackedMultiWig_screenshot.png" alt="Stacked screenshot" width="819" 
 height="313"></p>
 <p>
 Navigate to the track settings for 
@@ -14724,32 +14724,32 @@
 found in the Analysis Working Group Hub, but are now hosted natively in the Browser with 
 enhanced filtering capability where desired segmented states can be selected using the
 Filter by Segment Type' control on the track configuration page.</p>
 
 <a name="041514"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 15, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; New minke whale (balAcu1) assembly now available</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata scammoni)
 assembly released October 2013 by the <a href="http://eng.kiost.ac/kordi_eng/main/" target="_BLANK">
 Korea Ocean Research &amp; Development Institute</a> (KORDI version BalAcu1.0, UCSC version 
 balAcu1). For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/78761" target="_blank">BalAcu1.0</a>. There are
 10,776 scaffolds with a total size of 2,431,687,698 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/balAcu1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#minke_whale">Downloads</a> page. Please
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/balAcu1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#minke_whale">Downloads</a> page. Please
 observe the <a href="credits.html#minke_whale_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and
 using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and
 collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#minke_whale_credits">Credits</a>
 page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="041114"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 11, 2014 &nbsp;&nbsp; New UCSC Genes track released for GRCm38/mm10</h2>
 <p>
 We're happy to announce the release of an updated UCSC Genes track for the GRCm38/mm10
 mouse Genome Browser. The new release has 61,642 total transcripts, compared with 59,121
 in the previous version. The total number of canonical genes has increased from 31,469
 to 32,408. Comparing the new gene set with the previous version:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>
   54,714 transcripts did not change between versions.</li>
@@ -14818,42 +14818,42 @@
   <a href="http://mitomap.org/MITOMAP" target="_blank">MITOMAP</a> with GenBank accession 
   number J01415.2 and RefSeq accession number NC_012920.1. This differs from the chrM 
   sequence (RefSeq accession number NC_001907) used by the previous hg19 Genome Browser, 
   which was not updated when the GRCh37 assembly later transitioned to the new version.</li>
   <li>
   <strong>Sequence updates</strong> - Several erroneous bases and misassembled regions in GRCh37 
   have been corrected in the GRCh38 assembly, and more than 100 gaps have been filled or reduced. 
   Much of the data used to improve the reference sequence was obtained from other genome 
   sequencing and analysis projects, such as the <a href="http://www.1000genomes.org/" 
   target="_blank">1000 Genomes Project</a>.</li>  
   <li>
   <strong>Analysis set</strong> - The GRCh38 assembly offers an &quot;analysis set&quot; that was 
   created to accommodate next generation sequencing read alignment pipelines. Several
   GRCh38 regions have been eliminated from this set to improve read mapping. 
   The analysis set may be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-  <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/analysisSet/"
+  <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/analysisSet/"
   target="_blank">downloads page</a>.</li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 For more information about the files included in the GRCh38 GenBank submission, see the
 <a href="ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/genomes/Eukaryotes/vertebrates_mammals/Homo_sapiens/GRCh38/README"
 target="_blank">GRCh38 README</a>. The GRCh38 GenBank record provides a detailed array of 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/883148/#/st_Primary-Assembly"
 target="_blank">statistics about this assembly</a>. Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation 
 data may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#human">Downloads</a> page. The annotation 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#human">Downloads</a> page. The annotation 
 tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p>
 <p>
 <strong>Much more to come!</strong> This initial release of the hg38 Genome Browser provides a 
 rudimentary set of annotations.  Many of our annotations rely on data sets from external 
 contributors (such as our popular SNPs tracks) or require massive computational effort 
 (our comparative genomics tracks). In the upcoming months/years, we will release many more 
 annotation tracks as they become available. To stay abreast of new datasets, join our 
 <a href="http://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/group/genome-announce?hl=en"
 target="_blank">genome-announce</a> mailing list or follow us on
 <a href="http://www.twitter.com/GenomeBrowser" target="_blank">twitter</a>.</p>
 <p>
 We'd like to thank our GRC and NCBI collaborators who worked closely with
 us in producing the hg38 browser. Their quick responses and helpful feedback were a
 key factor in expediting this release. The production of the hg38 Genome Browser was
 a team effort, but in particular we'd like to acknowledge the engineering efforts of Hiram 
@@ -15019,81 +15019,81 @@
 site for the new and improved site. For more background on DGV's changes, please see DGV's 
 <a href="http://dgv.tcag.ca/dgv/app/news" target="_blank">June 2013 newsletter</a>.</p>
 
 <a name="092613"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 26, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; New American alligator (allMis1) assembly now available</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the American alligator (<em>Alligator mississippiensis</em>) 
 assembly released August 2012 by the International Crocodilian Genomes Working Group (version 
 allMis0.2, UCSC version allMis1). Please note the 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/wgs/?val=AKHW01" target="_blank">assembly construction 
 details</a>. For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record 
 for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/406428/" target="_blank">allMis0.2</a>. There are 
 14,645 scaffolds with a total size of 2,174,259,888 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/allMis1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#american_alligator">Downloads</a> page. 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/allMis1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#american_alligator">Downloads</a> page. 
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#american_alligator_use">conditions for use</a>
 when accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by 
 UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#american_alligator_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release. </p>
 
 <a name="091113"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 11, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; New alpaca (vicPac2) assembly released in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the March 2013 assembly of alpaca, 
 <em>Vicugna pacos</em> (Broad Vicugna_pacos-2.0.1, UCSC version vicPac2). The whole genome shotgun 
 assembly was provided by <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/" target="_blank">The Broad 
 Institute</a>.  There are 276,725 scaffolds with a total size of 2,172,191,320 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/vicPac2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#alpaca">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/vicPac2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#alpaca">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#alpaca_credits">specific conditions for use</a>. The alpaca 
 browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#alpaca_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release. </p>
 
 <a name="090413b"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 4, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; New tenrec (echTel2) assembly added to the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the Nov. 2012 assembly of tenrec, 
 <em>Echinops telfairi</em> (Broad EchTel2.0, UCSC version echTel2). The whole genome shotgun 
 assembly was provided by <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/" target="_blank">The Broad 
 Institute</a>.  There are 8,402 scaffolds with a total size of 2,947,024,286 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/echTel2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tenrec">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/echTel2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tenrec">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#tenrec_credits">specific conditions for use</a>.
 The tenrec browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#tenrec_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="090413a"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 4, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; New sheep (oviAri3) assembly now available</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the August 2012 assembly of sheep, 
 <em>Ovis aries</em> (ISGC Oar_v3.1, UCSC version oviAri3). The whole genome shotgun assembly was 
 provided by the <a href="http://www.sheephapmap.org" target="_blank">International Sheep Genomics 
 Consortium</a>.  There are 5,698 scaffolds with a total size of 2,619,054,388 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/oviAri3/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#sheep">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/oviAri3/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#sheep">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#sheep_credits">specific conditions for use</a>. The sheep browser 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#sheep_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed 
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="082213"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 22, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; Three new human variation tracks released</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of three tracks that describe human genetic variation. They 
 are based on the <a href="http://lovd.nl/2.0/index_list.php" target="_blank">Leiden Open Variation 
 Database (LOVD)</a>, the <a href="http://www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk/ac/index.php" target="_blank">Human Gene
 Mutation Database Public (HGMD)</a>, and amino acid mutations in the 
 <a href="http://www.uniprot.org/" target="_blank">UniProt database</a>. The majority of the data 
 were collected from publications by curators in the three databases.</p>
 <p>
@@ -15253,50 +15253,50 @@
 our mailing lists. You may reach the suggestion box from the 
 <a href="../contacts.html" target="_blank">Contact Us</a> page or by 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgUserSuggestion" target="_blank">clicking here</a>. </p>
 
 <a name="061213"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 12, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; Ferret Genome Browser released</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the ferret (<em>Mustela putorius furo</em>) assembly released 
 by the Ferret Genome Sequencing Consortium April 2011 (version MusPutFur1.0, UCSC version musFur1).
 Please note the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/wgs/?val=AEYP01"
 target="_blank">assembly construction details</a>. For more information and statistics about this 
 assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/286418/"
 target="_blank">MusPutFur1.0</a>.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/musFur1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ferret" target="_blank">Downloads</a> page. 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/musFur1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ferret" target="_blank">Downloads</a> page. 
 Please observe the <a href="credits.html#ferret_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using
 these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators 
 worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#ferret_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="052213"></a>
 <h2>May 22, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; Gibbon Genome Browser released</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Gibbon (<em>Nomascus leucogenys</em>) assembly released by
 the Gibbon Genome Sequencing Consortium Oct. 2012 (version Nleu_3.0, UCSC version nomLeu3). Please 
 note the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/wgs/?val=ADFV01" target="_blank">assembly 
 construction details</a>. For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI 
 assembly record for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/506498/"
 target="_blank">Nleu_3.0</a>.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/nomLeu3/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#gibbon">Downloads</a> page. Please observe 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/nomLeu3/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#gibbon">Downloads</a> page. Please observe 
 the <a href="credits.html#gibbon_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and using these data 
 sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. 
 See the <a href="credits.html#gibbon_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="040913"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 9, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; The UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser has a new look</h2>
 <p>
 The UCSC Cancer Genomics group has recently remodeled the interface of the
 <a href="https://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu/" target="blank">Cancer Genomics Browser</a> to make it 
 easier to navigate and more intuitive to display, investigate, and analyze cancer genomics data and 
 associated clinical information. This tool provides access to many types of 
 information&mdash;biological pathways, collections of genes, genomic and clinical 
 information&mdash;that can be used to sort, aggregate, and perform statistical tests on a group of 
 samples. The Cancer Browser currently displays 473 datasets of 25 cancers from 
@@ -15368,67 +15368,67 @@
 Genome Browser with these data. We'd also like to acknowledge the hard work of the UCSC Genome 
 Browser staff who pulled together the annotations and information for these tracks: Angie Hinrichs 
 and Pauline Fujita.</p>
 
 <a name="012513"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 25, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; Southern white rhinoceros Genome Browser released</h2>
 <p>
 A Genome Browser is now available for the Southern White Rhinoceros 
 (<em>Ceratotherium simum simum</em>) assembly released by the Broad Institute in May 2012 (Broad 
 version cerSimSim1.0, UCSC version cerSim1). This genome was sequenced and assembled at the Broad 
 Institute using samples provided by Dr. Oliver Ryder at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation
 Research. For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/406328/" target="_blank">CerSimSim1.0</a>.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/cerSim1/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#white_rhinoceros">Downloads</a> page. Please 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/cerSim1/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#white_rhinoceros">Downloads</a> page. Please 
 observe the <a href="credits.html#white_rhinoceros_use">conditions for use</a> when accessing and 
 using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser were generated by UCSC and 
 collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#white_rhinoceros_credits">Credits</a> page 
 for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="012213"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 22, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; New baboon (papAnu2) assembly now available in the Genome
 Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the March 2012 assembly of the olive 
 baboon, <em>Papio anubis</em> (Baylor Panu_2.0, UCSC version papAnu2). The whole genome shotgun 
 assembly was provided by <a href="https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/content/baboon-genome-project"
 target="_blank">The Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center</a>. There are 
 72,500 scaffolds with a total size of 2,948,380,710 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/papAnu2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#baboon">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/papAnu2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#baboon">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#baboon_credits">specific conditions for use</a>. The baboon 
 browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#baboon_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed 
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="011513"></a> 
 <h2>Jan. 15, 2013 &nbsp;&nbsp; New lamprey (petMar2) assembly released in Genome Browser</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the Sep. 2010 assembly of the 
 lamprey, <em>Petromyzon marinus</em> (WUGSC 7.0, UCSC version petMar2). The whole genome shotgun 
 assembly was provided by <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/petromyzon-marinus/"
 target="_blank">The Genome Institute at Washington University</a>. There are 25,006 scaffolds with 
 a total size of 885,550,958 bases.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/petMar2/">FTP server</a> or the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lamprey">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/petMar2/">FTP server</a> or the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lamprey">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#lamprey_credits">specific conditions for use</a>.  The lamprey 
 browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#lamprey_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed 
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <!-- ============= 2012 archived news ============= -->
 <a name="2012"></a>
 <a name="122012"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 20, 2012 &nbsp;&nbsp; 28 new vertebrate assemblies</h2>
 <p>
 Over the past several weeks, we have released 28 new vertebrate assemblies on the public Genome 
 Browser website, featuring 22 new species and 6 assembly updates. These assemblies were added to 
 support the 60-species Conservation track on the latest mouse assembly (mm10/GRCm38). Several of 
 these species were originally sequenced and assembled for the Mammalian Genome Project 
 (Lindblad-Toh <em>et al</em>., <em>Nature</em> 2011)*.</p>
@@ -15522,32 +15522,32 @@
   <strong>Budgerigar</strong> (<em>Melopsittacus undulatus</em>) <strong>melUnd1</strong> &ndash; 
   v6.3 (Sep. 2011) from WUSTL</li> 
   <li> 
   <strong>Coelacanth</strong> (<em>Latimeria chalumnae</em>) <strong>latCha1</strong> &ndash; 
   LatCha1 (Aug. 2011) from the Broad Institute</li> 
   <li> 
   <strong>Nile tilapia</strong> (<em>Oreochromis niloticus</em>) <strong>oreNil2</strong> &ndash; 
   OreNil1.1 (Jan. 2011) from the Broad Institute</li> 
 </ul>
 <p>
 Our sincere thanks to the many organizations who contributed to the release of these datasets. 
 We'd also like to acknowledge the Genome Browser staff who worked on this release: Hiram Clawson, 
 Chin Li, Brian Raney, Brooke Rhead, Steve Heitner, Pauline Fujita, Luvina Guruvadoo, Greg Roe, and
 Donna Karolchik. Please see the Genome Browser <a href="credits.html">credits page</a> for complete 
 acknowledgment information and data use restrictions. All datasets may be downloaded from our
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">ftp server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">downloads</a> page.</p>
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">ftp server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">downloads</a> page.</p>
 <p>
 We regret that we don't have the resources to support the many other genomics research communities 
 who would like us to visualize their data in our browser. However, we can provide you with 
 information for setting up your own browser or track hub to display your data, as well as links to 
 other visualization resources on the web that are specific to your genome of interest. Feel free to 
 contact our <a href="mailto:genome@soe.ucsc.edu">mail list</a> for more information.</p>
 <p>
 *Lindblad-Toh K <em>et al</em>. 
 <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7370/full/nature10530.html"
 target="_blank">A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals</a>. 
 <em>Nature</em>. 2011 Oct 12;478(7370):476-82.</p>
 
 <a name="120712"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 7, 2012 &nbsp;&nbsp; dbSNP 137 available for hg19</h2>
 <p>
@@ -15643,32 +15643,32 @@
 naturalist Charles Darwin's Galapagos finches. This species, which has been the subject of many 
 evolutionary studies, is one of a group of birds that evolved over a few million years from a single
 ancestral species into multiple species whose beak sizes and shapes are specialized for using 
 different food resources. The phenotypic diversity of these birds contributed to Darwin's theory of 
 evolution. The significance of this genome assembly is described in the Aug. 16, 2012, 
 <a href="https://cbse.soe.ucsc.edu/news/article/1939" target="_blank">press release</a> issued by 
 the UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE).</p>
 <p>
 The initial Medium ground finch genome assembly (GeoFor_1.0, UCSC version geoFor1) is the product 
 of a collaboration between the Genome 10K project and Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) to sequence 
 100 vertebrate species, and is the first to be released in the UCSC Genome Browser. For more 
 information about the <em>G. fortis</em> genome, see the 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/13302" target="_blank">NCBI website</a>.</p>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/geoFor1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mediumgroundfinch">Downloads</a> page. 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/geoFor1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mediumgroundfinch">Downloads</a> page. 
 The browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#mediumgroundfinch_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release. We'd like to thank BGI for 
 contributing the data for this assembly and acknowledge the UCSC staff members who released this 
 browser: Hiram Clawson and Greg Roe.</p>
 
 <a name="081412"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 14,  2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; Changes to our website</h2>
 <p>
 We are pleased to announce a few changes to the look and feel of the Genome Browser website. In 
 addition to a new font throughout the site, the first thing you might notice is a new menu bar 
 across the top of many of the pages. We have reorganized the navigation on our web applications with
 you in mind; we hope you find it more intuitive! </p>
 <p> 
 Additionally, we greatly simplified the search mechanism by collapsing all search methods into a 
@@ -15684,32 +15684,32 @@
 
 <a name="071612"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 16,  2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; Tasmanian devil assembly now available in Genome Browser</h2>
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the Feb. 2011 Tasmanian devil 
 assembly, <em>Sarcophilus harrisii</em> (WTSI version Devil_refv7.0, UCSC version sarHar1). The 
 Tasmanian devil, which is native to the island of Tasmania, is at risk of extinction due to a 
 transmissible facial cancer. The devil population in Tasmania has declined by more than 80% since 
 the first time the disease was observed 14 years ago. This draft assembly, created by the 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute</a>, was 
 sequenced using Illumina reads. This completed genome is the first step towards finding genetic 
 mutations in the transmissible cancer, which will help researchers understand the disease and its 
 spread.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sarHar1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tasmanian_devil">Downloads</a> page. The 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sarHar1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tasmanian_devil">Downloads</a> page. The 
 Tasmanian devil browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See 
 the <a href="credits.html#tasmanian_devil_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="070612"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 6, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; Retirement of hgText CGI</h2> 
 <p>	
 We are announcing the imminent retirement of the hgText CGI.  hgText was the original version of the
 Table Browser, and was replaced by the new CGI, hgTables, in <a href="#100104">2004</a>. A very 
 small number of our users still access the database using the old hgText CGI. We plan to remove 
 hgText from our site on Jul. 24, 2012, after which all users must use hgTables.</p>
 
 <a name="061912"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 19, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; Many new assemblies available in the browser</h2>
 <p> 
@@ -15786,71 +15786,71 @@
   <li>
   <strong>Turkey</strong> (<em>Meleagris gallopavo</em>) <strong>melGal1</strong> &ndash; 
   Turkey_2.01 (Dec. 2009) from the Turkey Genome Consortium</li>
   <li>
   <strong>Western clawed frog</strong> (<em>X. tropicalis</em>) <strong>xenTro3</strong> &ndash; 
   v4.2 (Nov.  2009) from the DOE Joint Genome Institute</li>
   <li>
   <strong><em>C. elegans</em></strong> <strong>ce10</strong> &ndash; WS220 (Oct. 2010) from 
   WormBase</li>
   <li>
   <strong><em>S. cerevisiae</em></strong> <strong>sacCer3</strong> &ndash; SacCer_Apr2011 (Apr. 
   2011) from the Saccharomyces Genome Database</li>
 </ul>
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data for these assemblies are available via the Genome
-Browser <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html" target="_blank">Downloads</a> page. Be sure 
+Browser <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html" target="_blank">Downloads</a> page. Be sure 
 to check the <a href="credits.html">credits</a> page for data use restrictions and 
 acknowledgments.</p>
 <p>
 Many thanks to the sequencing and assembly groups, as well as NCBI's GenBank, for making these 
 genomes available for public use. We'd also like to acknowledge Hiram Clawson, Chin Li, and our 
 hard-working QA team for putting together these browsers.</p>
 
 <a name="051512b"></a>
 <h2>May 15, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; New Fugu (fr3) assembly now available in the Genome Browser</h2>
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the October 2011 assembly of the 
 Fugu, <em>Takifugu rubripes</em> (JGI v5.0, UCSC version fr3). The whole genome shotgun assembly was
 provided by the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fugu-sg.org/">International Fugu Genome 
 Sequencing Consortium</a> led by JGI and the <a target="_blank" 
 href="http://www.imcb.a-star.edu.sg/">Singapore Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology</a> 
 (IMCB).</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/fr3/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fugu">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/fr3/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fugu">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Takru4/Takru4.download.html" target="_blank">specific conditions 
 for use</a>. The Fugu (fr3) browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators 
 worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#fugu_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="051512a"></a>
 <h2>May 15, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; Naked mole-rat assembly now available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the July 2011 Naked mole-rat, 
 <em>Heterocephalus glaber</em> (BGI version HetGla1.0, UCSC version hetGla1). This draft assembly,  
 produced by the <a href="http://www.genomics.cn/en/index" target="_blank">Beijing Genomics 
 Institute</a>, has been sequenced using Illumina reads with a sequencing depth of >20x. There are 
 39,266 scaffolds with a total size of 2,643,961,837 bases. The N50 size of the scaffolds is 
 1,603,177 bases with 502 scaffolds larger, and 38,764 scaffolds smaller. The mitochondrial sequence 
 is also available as the virtual chromosome &quot;chrM&quot;.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hetGla1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#naked_mole-rat" target="_blank">Downloads</a>
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hetGla1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#naked_mole-rat" target="_blank">Downloads</a>
 page. These data have <a href="credits.html#naked_mole-rat_use">specific conditions for use</a>. 
 The naked mole-rat browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See
 the <a href="credits.html#naked_mole-rat_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="050812"></a>
 <h2>May 8, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; OpenHelix to conduct free Genome Browser webinars in May</h2>
 <p> 
 <a href="http://www.openhelix.com" target="_blank">OpenHelix</a> is conducting two free webinars on 
 the UCSC Genome Browser:</p> 
 <ul>
    <li>
    UCSC Genome Browser: An Introduction (Thursday, May 17, 1pm EDT) -- designed for new users of
    the UCSC Genome Browser and those who want to improve their skills at basic navigation and 
    display.</li> 
@@ -15917,32 +15917,32 @@
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/contact.shtml" 
 target="_blank">like your input</a>.</p>
 
 <a name="030712"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 7, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; New mouse browser available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released the latest Genome Browser for the Dec. 2011 mouse genome assembly produced by the 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/mouse/" target="_blank">Mouse 
 Genome Reference Consortium</a> (Genome Reference Consortium GRCm38, UCSC version mm10). This 
 version, which includes approximately 2.6 Gb of sequence, is considered to be &quot;essentially 
 complete&quot;. The assembly includes chromosomes 1-19, X, Y, M (mitochondrial DNA) and chr*_random 
 (unlocalized) and chrUn_* (unplaced clone contigs). Note that the UCSC mm10 database contains only 
 the reference strain C57BL/6J.</p> 
 <p>					
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm10/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse">Downloads</a> page. The mouse browser 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm10/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse">Downloads</a> page. The mouse browser 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#mouse_credits" target="_blank">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="022912"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 29, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; RGD Genes available for rn4</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of RGD Genes for rat (Baylor 3.4/rn4). This track shows 
 protein-coding gene annotations curated by <a href="http://rgd.mcw.edu/" target="_blank">RGD</a>. 
 This track replaces UCSC Known Genes as the main gene track for this assembly.</p> 
 <p> 
 More details about this track can be found on the <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=rn4&g=rgdGene2" 
 target="_blank">RGD Genes track description page</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank RGD for providing the base annotations for this track. The RGD Genes track was 
@@ -16029,32 +16029,32 @@
 Many thanks to Melissa Cline, Jim Kent, Brian Raney, Mark Diekhans, and Brooke Rhead for their work 
 on this track.</p>
 
 <a name="230112"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 23, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; Wallaby browser available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the September 2009 genome assembly of the Tammar wallaby, 
 <em>Macropus eugenii</em> (TWGS version Meug_1.1, UCSC version macEug2). This assembly, which has 
 been sequenced to 2X coverage, was produced by the Tammar Wallaby Genome Sequencing Consortium, a 
 collaboration between the Baylor College of Medicine 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/project-species-m-Wallaby.hgsc" target="_blank">Human Genome 
 Sequencing Center</a> and the <a href="http://www.agrf.org.au/" target="_blank">Australian Genome 
 Research Facility</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/macEug2/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#wallaby">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/macEug2/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#wallaby">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#wallaby_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Tammar Wallaby Genome Sequencing Consortium for providing this assembly. The 
 wallaby browser and annotation tracks were produced by Chin Li and Luvina Guruvadoo. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#wallaby_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and
  individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="030112"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 3, 2012  &nbsp;&nbsp; Roadmap Epigenomics now available through data hub at Washington 
 University</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of the Roadmap Epigenomics data on the UCSC Genome Browser 
 through our data hub utility. The Roadmap Epigenomics Project is part of The NIH Common Fund's 
 <a href="https://commonfund.nih.gov/epigenomics/" target="_blank">Epigenomics Program</a>. 
 It was launched with the goal of producing a public resource of human epigenomic data to catalyze 
@@ -16098,51 +16098,51 @@
 (Nov. 2009, UCSC bosTau6) was produced by the <a href="http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/" 
 target="_blank">UMD Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology</a> (CBCB) in College Park, 
 MD.</p> 
 <p> 
 The UMD 3.1 assembly is based on reads downloaded from the NCBI Trace Archive, most of which were 
 sequenced by the Baylor College of Medicine. UMD reports that they were able to apply several 
 assembly improvement techniques to produce an assembly that is substantially more accurate and 
 complete than previous alternative versions, as evaluated using independent metrics. Based on UMD 
 statistics, this assembly provides more genome coverage, closes thousands of gaps, corrects many 
 erroneous inversions, deletions, and translocations, and fixes thousands of single-nucleotide 
 errors. For more information, see Zimin, AV <em>et al.</em>, 
 <a href="http://genomebiology.com/2009/10/4/R42" target="_blank">A whole-genome assembly of the 
 domestic cow, <em>Bos taurus</em></a>, <em>Genome Biol.</em> 2009;10(4). </p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the UMD bovine data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau6/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page.</p> 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau6/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page.</p> 
 <p>
 We'd like to thank the UMD CBCB for providing this genome assembly. The UMD Cow Genome Browser 
 and annotation tracks were produced by Hiram Clawson, Chin Li, Brooke Rhead, Greg Roe, Steve 
 Heitner, and Donna Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#cow_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.<p>
 
 <a name="101011"></a> 
 <h2>Oct. 10, 2011 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated yeast browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are happy to announce the release of an updated browser for the <em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</em>
 yeast genome. The April 2011 sacCer3 assembly corresponds to the S288c assembly produced by the 
 <a href="http://www.yeastgenome.org/" target="_blank">Saccharomyces Genome Database</a> (SGD) 
 project. For more information on this genome, see the 
 <a href="http://www.yeastgenome.org/cache/genomeSnapshot.html" target="_blank">SGD Genome 
 Overview</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the yeast data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sacCer3/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#yeast" target="_blank">Downloads</a> 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sacCer3/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#yeast" target="_blank">Downloads</a> 
 page.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the SGD for providing this genome assembly. The <em>S. cerevisiae</em> Genome 
 Browser and annotation tracks were produced by Hiram Clawson, Greg Roe, and Steve Heitner. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#yeast_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="090811"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 8, 2011  &nbsp;&nbsp; New navigation and display features</h2> 
 <p> 
 We've added several new features to the Genome Browser that make it easier to quickly configure and 
 navigate around in the browser's annotation tracks window.</p> 
 <p> 
 <strong>Automatic image resizing:</strong> The first time the annotation track window is displayed, 
 or after the Genome Browser has been reset, the size of the track window is now set by default to 
@@ -16243,32 +16243,32 @@
 weekly mirror of our internal development server for public access. Data and tools there are under 
 construction, have not been quality reviewed, and are subject to change at any time. We provide this
 site for early access, with the warning that it is less available and stable than our public site. 
 For high-quality reviewed annotations on our production server, visit our public website: 
 <a href="../index.html">http://genome.ucsc.edu</a>.</p>
 
 <a name="060711"></a> 
 <h2>Jun. 7, 2011  &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated lizard browser available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the May 2010 genome assembly of the green anole lizard, 
 <em>Anolis carolinensis</em> (Broad version AnoCar2.0, UCSC version anoCar2). This assembly, which 
 has been sequenced to 7.1X coverage, was produced by the <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/" 
 target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>, Cambridge, MA.</p>
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/anoCar2/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lizard">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/anoCar2/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lizard">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#lizard_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Broad Institute for providing this assembly. The lizard Genome Browser and 
 annotation tracks were produced by Hiram Clawson, Brian Raney, and Luvina Guruvadoo. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#lizard_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="052611"></a>
 <h2>May 26, 2011  &nbsp;&nbsp; New release of UCSC Genes for mouse</h2> 
 <p> 
 We've released an updated set of UCSC Genes for the mm9 (NCBI Build 37) mouse browser. This version 
 of the gene set was generated using the same computational pipeline as the previous mm9 UCSC Genes, 
 but is based on more recent GenBank data.</p>
 <p> 
 The new release has 55,419 total transcripts, compared with 49,409 in the previous version. The 
@@ -16439,62 +16439,62 @@
 This assembly covers about 97 percent of the genome and is based on 6X sequence coverage. It 
 comprises 192,898 contigs with an N50 length of 44 kb and 33,990 supercontigs with an N50 length of 
 8.4 Mb. Improvements introduced with the 2.1.3 assembly include the addition of over 300,000 
 finishing reads and the merging in of 640 finished BACS. Approximately 49,000 additional merges were
 made in this assembly as compared with the 2.1 assembly.</p> 
 <p> 
 The whole genome shotgun data were derived primarily from the donor Clint, a captive-born male 
 chimpanzee from the Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta, GA, USA. The sequence data were 
 assembled and organized by the Washington University Genome Center. The underlying whole genome 
 shotgun data were generated at the Washington University School of Medicine and the Broad Institute.
 For detailed information about the assembly process, see the sequencing and analysis discussion in 
 the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/AACZ00000000" target="_blank">GenBank accession 
 record</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panTro3/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chimp">Downloads</a> page. The complete set 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panTro3/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chimp">Downloads</a> page. The complete set 
 of sequence reads is available at the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces" 
 target="_blank">NCBI trace archive</a>. These data have <a href="credits.html#chimp_use">specific 
 conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the International Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, Washington 
 University at St. Louis School of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center, and the Broad Institute for 
 providing this assembly.  We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC team who worked on this release: 
 Hiram Clawson, Greg Roe, and Donna Karolchik. The chimpanzee browser annotation tracks were 
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p>
 
 <a name="011911"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 19, 2011  &nbsp;&nbsp; Browser released for zebrafish Zv9 assembly</h2> 
 <p> 
 The most recent zebrafish assembly -- Zv9 (UCSC version danRer7, Jul. 2010) -- is now available in 
 the UCSC Genome Browser. This assembly was produced by <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/" 
 target="_blank">The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute</a>, UK.</p> 
 <p>
 The Zv9 assembly comprises a sequence length of 1.4 Gb in 26 chromosomes and 1,107 scaffolds. This 
 assembly is based on a clone path sorted with the high-density meiotic map SATMAP (Clark et al., in 
 preparation). The data freeze was taken on Apr. 1, 2010. The remaining gaps were filled with 
 sequence from WGS31, a combined Illumina and capillary assembly. The assembly integration process 
 involved sequence alignemnts as well as cDNA, marker and BAC/Fosmid end sequence placements. The 
 zebrafish mitochondrial sequence is also available in the Genome Browser as the virtual chromosome, 
 chrM. For more details about the Zv9 assembly, see the Sanger Institute page for the 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/Zv9_assembly_information.shtml" 
 target="_blank"><em>Danio rerio</em> Sequencing Project</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The danRer7 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer7/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer7/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
 the Sanger Institute <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/legal/" target="_blank">guidelines</a> for 
 using these data.</p>
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for providing this assembly. The UCSC 
 zebrafish Genome Browser was produced by Hiram Clawson, Greg Roe, Mary Goldman, Brian Raney and 
 Donna Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#zebrafish_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed 
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="011011"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 10, 2011  &nbsp;&nbsp; Introducing Genome Browser right-click navigation</h2> 
 <p> 
 Several of the common display and navigation operations offered on the Genome Browser tracks page 
 may now be quickly accessed by right-clicking on a feature on the tracks image and selecting an 
 option from the displayed menu. Depending on context, the right-click feature will let you change 
 the track display mode, zoom in or out to the exact position coordinates of the feature, open the 
@@ -16605,32 +16605,32 @@
 see the <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg18&c=chr1&g=wgEncodeReg">track description</a> page.</p>
 
 <a name="081810"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 18, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; Cat Genome Browser available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the latest assembly of Cat (<em>Felis catus</em>). The GTB 
 V17E assembly (Dec. 2008, UCSC version felCat4) was produced by the NHGRI Genome Technology Branch 
 and NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, Maryland; Agencourt Bioscience Corporation, Massachusetts; 
 NCI Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, Maryland; and Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc, Kansas. The 
 mitochondrial genome was sequenced by NCI Laboratory of Genomic Diversity. For detailed sequencing 
 and assembly information, see the NCBI Felis catus  
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=10703" 
 target="_blank">assembly page</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the Cat data and annotations may be obtained from the 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat4/">UCSC FTP site</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat">Downloads</a> page. These data have been
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat4/">UCSC FTP site</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat">Downloads</a> page. These data have been
 freely provided for use in the UCSC Genome Browser with specific conditions for use.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to NHGRI, Agencourt Bioscience Corporation, NCI and Hill's Pet Nutrition for providing 
 these data. The felCat4 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and its collaborators. We'd also 
 like to acknowledge the UCSC Cat browser team: Chin Li, Antonio Coelho, Mary Goldman and Donna 
 Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#cat_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="072310"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 23, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; BigBed/BigWig paper published</h2> 
 <p>
 Last summer, we announced the release of new data formats for very large data sets: BigBed and 
 BigWig. Read more about these data formats 
 <a href="https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome-announce/2009-July/000165.html" 
 target="_blank">here</a>. As a follow up, we are pleased to announce that we have published a paper 
@@ -16732,32 +16732,32 @@
 Goldman.</p>
 
 <a name="060310"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 3, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated marmoset browser available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released an updated marmoset (<em>Callithrix jacchus</em>) assembly, UCSC version calJac3, 
 corresponding to the Mar. 2009 v3.2 assembly from the Genome Center at Washington University St. 
 Louis School of Medicine (WUSTL).</p>  
 <p> 
 This draft of the marmoset genome has approximately 6X coverage. For statistics and details on the 
 assembly process, see the WUSTL Callithrix jacchus 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/callithrix-jacchus/" target="_blank">assembly 
 information</a> page.</p>  
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/calJac3/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#marmoset">Downloads</a> page. See the WUSTL 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/calJac3/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#marmoset">Downloads</a> page. See the WUSTL 
 Genome Center's <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/data/data_use_policy" target="_blank">data use 
 policy</a> for conditions of use.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Genome Center at WUSTL School of Medicine for providing the assembly data. The 
 calJac3 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#marmoset_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="051210"></a>
 <h2>May 12, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; Pig Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the pig, Sus scrofa.  This assembly (SGSC Sscrofa9.2 
 (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=10718" 
 target="_blank">NCBI project 10718</a>, 
 <a href="ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/genomes/Eukaryotes/vertebrates_mammals/Sus_scrofa/Sscrofa9.2/" 
@@ -16767,32 +16767,32 @@
 The pig is a member of the artiodactyls (cloven-hoofed mammals), which is an evolutionary clade 
 distinct from the primates and rodents. It is an important model for human health, particularly for 
 understanding complex traits such as obesity and cardiovascular disease. There is extensive 
 conserved homology with the human genome.</p>
 <p> 
 The pig genome assembly is a hybrid of BAC end-sequencing to anchor contigs combined with 
 whole-genome shotgun (WGS) libraries. There are 19 chromosomes: chr1 - chr18, chrX and the 
 mitochondrial sequence chrM (GenBank accession number NC_012095) for a total sequence length of 
 2,262,501,571 bases. There are 31,203,023 &quot;N&quot; bases in gaps, leaving 2,231,298,548 ACGT 
 bases. For more information, see the Sanger Institute's 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/S_scrofa/" target="_blank">Porcine Genome Sequencing 
 Project</a> web page.</p>
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for 
 the pig assembly data.  Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the 
-Genome Browser <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/susScr2/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#pig">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+Genome Browser <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/susScr2/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#pig">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#pig_use">specific conditions for use</a>. The pig browser annotation tracks 
 were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. The UCSC Pig browser was produced by: Hiram 
 Clawson, Brian Raney, Mark Diekhans, and Mary Goldman. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#pig_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="050610"></a>
 <h2>May 6, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; UCSC hosts portal for Neandertal sequence, alignments, and
 analyses</h2> 
 <p> 
 In conjunction with the publication of the paper Green <em>et al.</em> 
 <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710" target="_blank">A Draft Sequence 
 of the Neandertal Genome</a> in the May 7 issue of <em>Science</em>, the UCSC Genome Browser project
 has released a public <a href="../Neandertal">Neandertal portal</a> that may be used to access the 
 Neandertal sequence, alignments to the UCSC hg18 (NCBI Build 36) human reference assembly and the 
@@ -16827,133 +16827,133 @@
 <h2>Apr. 26, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; European Rabbit Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the European rabbit, <em>Oryctolagus cuniculus</em>. This 
 assembly (UCSC version oryCun2, Broad oryCun2) was produced by the 
 <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/" target="_blank">Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard</a>, 
 Cambridge, MA. The European rabbit is the precursor of all domestic rabbits. It is a valuable model 
 in both immunology and evolutionary biology.</p> 
 <p> 
 The genome has been sequenced to nearly 7.5X coverage. The sequence is 2.7 Gb in length and includes
 21 autosomes, the X chromosome, and the mitochondrial DNA (chrM), as well as 3,219 unplaced 
 segments. For more information on the assembly, see the 
 <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/science/projects/mammals-models/rabbit/rabbit-genome-sequencing-project" 
 target="_blank">Rabbit Genome Project</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/oryCun2/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rabbit">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/oryCun2/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rabbit">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#rabbit_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Broad Institute for the rabbit assembly data. The oryCun2 annotation tracks were 
 generated by UCSC and collaborators. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC Rabbit browser team: 
 Hiram Clawson and  Antonio Coelho. See the <a href="credits.html#rabbit_credits">Credits</a> page 
 for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="041610"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 16, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; Giant Panda Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the giant panda, <em>Ailuropoda melanoleuca</em>. This 
 assembly (UCSC version ailMel1, BGI AilMel1) was produced by the 
 <a href="http://www.genomics.cn/en/index" target="_blank">Beijing Genomics Institute at 
 Shenzhen</a>, Shenzhen, China. The panda is a member of Ursidae, despite earlier taxonomy that 
 marked it as a relative of the raccoon. It has become the most recognized symbol for the fight for 
 animal conservation.</p> 
 <p> 
 This draft of the panda genome has a size of approximately 2.3 Gb at 94% coverage. The assembly 
 comprises 81,467 scaffolds and chrM (mitochondrial DNA). For more information on the assembly, see 
 the BGI <a href="http://panda.genomics.org.cn/page/panda/index.jsp" target="_blank">Giant Panda 
 Database</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ailMel1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#panda">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ailMel1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#panda">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#panda_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen for the panda assembly data. The ailMel1 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC 
 Panda browser team: Hiram Clawson, Ann Zweig, and  Antonio Coelho. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#panda_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="032410"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 24, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; African Savannah Elephant Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the African savannah elephant, <em>Loxodonta africana</em>. 
 This assembly (UCSC version loxAfr3, Broad loxAfr3) was produced by the 
 <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/" target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>, Cambridge, MA, USA. The 
 elephant was the first member of Afrotheria to be sequenced. Afrotheria is the deepest node of 
 Eutheria, and the elephant sequence should be useful in reconstructing the ancestral eutherian 
 genome.</p> 
 <p> 
 This draft of the elephant genome has a size of approximately 3 Gb with 7X coverage. The assembly 
 comprises 2352 scaffolds and chrM (mitochondrial DNA). For more information on the assembly, see the
 Broad Institute 
 <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/science/projects/mammals-models/elephant/elephant" 
 target="_blank">Elephant Genome Project</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/loxAfr3/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#elephant">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/loxAfr3/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#elephant">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="credits.html#elephant_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Broad Institute for the elephant assembly data. The loxAfr3 annotation tracks 
 were generated by UCSC and collaborators. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC Elephant browser 
 team: Hiram Clawson, Pauline Fujita, Vanessa Swing,  Antonio Coelho, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#elephant_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>					
 
 <a name="031910"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 19, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; California Sea Hare Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the California sea hare, <em>Aplysia californica</em>. This 
 assembly (UCSC version aplCal1, Broad version Aplcal2.0) was produced by the 
 <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/" target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>, Cambridge, MA, USA. The 
 sea hare is the first mollusc to be sequenced, and is particularly noted for its nervous system, 
 which is quite useful for neurobiological experimentation.</p> 
 <p> 
 This draft of the sea hare genome has a size of approximately 712 Mb with nearly 10X coverage. The 
 assembly comprises 8766 scaffolds and chrM (mitochondrial DNA). For more information on the 
 assembly, see the Broad Institute 
 <a href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/science/projects/mammals-models/vertebrates-invertebrates/aplysia/aplysia-genome-sequencing-project" 
 target="_blank">Aplysia Genome Project</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/aplCal1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#seahare">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/aplCal1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#seahare">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#seahare_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Broad Institute for the sea hare assembly data. The aplcal1 annotation tracks 
 were generated by UCSC and collaborators. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC Sea Hare browser 
 team: Galt Barber, Brian Raney, Hiram Clawson, Katrina Learned, Antonio Coelho, and Donna Karolchik.
 See the <a href="credits.html#seahare_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="031210"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 12, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Tetraodon Genome Browser available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the latest assembly of <em>Tetraodon nigroviridis</em>. The 
 V8 assembly (March 2007, UCSC version tetNig2) was provided by 
 <a href="http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/" target="_blank">Genoscope</a>, Evry, France, in collaboration
 with the <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/tetraodon/background.html" 
 target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>, Cambridge, MA, USA. For detailed sequencing and assembly 
 information, see the Genoscope <em>Tetraodon nigroviridis</em> 
 <a href="http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/spip/Tetraodon-nigroviridis-whole.html" 
 target="_blank">assembly</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the Tetraodon data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/tetNig2/" target="_blank">FTP site</a> or 
-<a href=http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tetraodon>Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/tetNig2/" target="_blank">FTP site</a> or 
+<a href=http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tetraodon>Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 been freely provided by Genoscope for use in the UCSC Genome Browser with 
 <a href="credits.html#tetraodon_use" target="_blank">specific conditions for use</a>. For more 
 information about the <em>Tetraodon nigroviridis</em> project, see the Genoscope 
 <a href="http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/spip/-Tetraodon-nigroviridis,387-.html" 
 target="_blank">website</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to Genoscope and the Broad Institute for providing these data. The tetNig2 annotation 
 tracks were generated by UCSC and its collaborators. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC 
 Tetraodon browser team, which includes several new faces: Hiram Clawson, Mark Diekhans, Brian Raney,
 Ann Zweig, Mary Goldman, Vanessa Swing, Antonio Coelho, Robert Kuhn, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#tetraodon_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="022410"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 24, 2010  &nbsp;&nbsp; New gene name search functionality released</h2> 
@@ -17012,32 +17012,32 @@
 <p> 
 The most recent zebrafish assembly -- zv8 (UCSC version danRer6, Dec. 2008) -- is now available in 
 the UCSC Genome Browser. This assembly was produced by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK.</p> 
 <p> 
 The danRer6 assembly consists of nearly 1.5 billion bp in 11,623 scaffolds with a coverage of 
 6.5-7x. It includes sequence anchored to chromosomes 1-25 and chrM (mitochondrial), as well as 
 11,418 unplaced scaffolds. Significant problems existing in previous assemblies have been rectified 
 in this assembly through the use of a whole-genome shotgun assembly with more coverage and a 
 reorganization of the fingerprint contig order and orientation through more careful use of maps. 
 For more information about this assembly, see the Sanger Institute web page for the 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/Zv8_assembly_information.shtml" 
 target="_blank"><em>Danio rerio</em> Sequencing Project</a> and the track description page for the 
 danRer6 Assembly track.</p> 
 <p> 
 The danRer6 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer6/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer6/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
 the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/notices/use-policy.shtml" target="_blank">guidelines</a> for 
 using these data.</p> 
 <p>
 We'd like to thank the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for providing this assembly. The UCSC 
 zebrafish Genome Browser was produced by Galt Barber, Robert Kuhn, Katrina Learned, and Donna 
 Karolchik. The initial set of annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics 
 Group. See the <a href="credits.html#zebrafish_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <!-- ============= 2009 archived news ============= -->
 <a name="2009"></a>
 
 <a name="121409"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 14, 2009  &nbsp;&nbsp; New job posting: Biological Data Technician</h2> 
 <p> 
@@ -17094,86 +17094,86 @@
 Testing/User Support Technician</a> on the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) 
 website. For detailed job descriptions and application information, go to the 
 <a href="http://jobs.ucsc.edu/" target="_blank">UCSC Staff Employment website</a>, click the 
 &quot;Search Postings&quot; link on the sidebar, and type in job #0902365 (Testing/User Support 
 Technician).</p> 
 
 <a name="090909"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 9, 2009  &nbsp;&nbsp; Changes to the bigBed/bigWig data formats</h2> 
 <p>
 If you have been taking advantage of the new bigBed format (for very large data sets), you'll be 
 happy to hear that we have considerably slimmed down the memory footprint of the program that 
 converts BED files into bigBed files: bedToBigBed. Because it now uses a multi-pass approach, it now
 takes only 1/4 the amount of RAM as the size of the uncompressed BED input file (instead of the 5x 
 RAM it needed previously!). Read more <a href="help/bigBed.html">here</a>. Pick up the new 
 bedToBigBed executable 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/">here</a>.</p> 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/">here</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 In conjunction with this change, there is also a change to the way you must specify your bigBed or 
 bigWig custom track. When you specify the location of your local bigBed/bigWig file (on your 
 web-accessible http, https, or ftp server), use the designation &quot;bigDataUrl&quot; instead of 
 the old &quot;dataUrl&quot;:</p> 
 <pre><code>track type=bigBed name="My Big Bed" description="Some Data from My Lab"
 <strong>bigDataUrl</strong>=http://myorg.edu/mylab/myBigBed.bb</code></pre> 
 <p> 
 Additionally, we would like to announce a companion program to the previously-announced wigToBigWig 
 program: bedGraphToBigWig. This program converts bedGraph files into bigWig files. The bedGraph 
 format allows display of sparse or varying-size data.  Read more 
 <a href="help/bigWig.html">here</a>. You can download the new bedGraphToBigWig utility 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/">here</a>.</p> 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/">here</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The main advantage of the bigBed and bigWig formats is that only the portions of the files needed to
 display a particular region are transferred to UCSC, so for large data sets, displaying 
 bigBed/bigWig data is considerably faster than regular BED/wig data. The bigBed/bigWig file remains 
 on your web accessible server (http, https, or ftp), not on the UCSC server. Consequently, creating 
 your custom track is very fast. Only the portion that is needed for the chromosomal position you are
 currently viewing is locally cached at UCSC as a &quot;sparse file&quot;.</p>
 
 <a name="081009"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 10, 2009  &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Yeast Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have added the June 2008 release of the yeast genome (<em>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</em>) based on
 sequence from the <a href="http://www.yeastgenome.org/" target="_blank">Saccharomyces Genome 
 Database</a> (SGD). The sequence, open reading frame (ORF), and gene annotations were downloaded 
 from the site <a href="ftp://genome-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/yeast/data_download" 
 target="_blank">ftp://genome-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/yeast/data_download</a>.</p>
 <p> 
 The S288C strain was used in this sequencing project. Reference information for each chromosome may 
 be found in the SGD <a href="http://www.yeastgenome.org/chromosomes.shtml" 
 target="_blank">Systematic Sequencing Table</a>. Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data 
 are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sacCer2/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#yeast">Downloads</a> page.</p>
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sacCer2/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#yeast">Downloads</a> page.</p>
 <p> 
 See the <a href="credits.html#yeast_credits">Credits</a> page for details on contributions to this 
 release.</p>
 
 <a name="072209"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 22, 2009  &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Opossum Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released an updated opossum (<em>Monodelphis domestica</em>) genome browser, UCSC version 
 monDom5, corresponding to the <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/opossum/" 
 target="_blank">Broad Institute's</a> October 2006 assembly.</p>
 <p> 
 This draft of the opossum genome has approximately 6.8X coverage. The assembly length is nearly 
 3.61 billion bp including gaps (3.50 billion bp without gaps) contained on chromosomes 1-8, X, M 
 (mitochondrial DNA), and Un (unmapped clone contigs). The N50 of the scaffolds including gaps is 
 60,456 kb; the N50 without gaps is 110 kb.</p>
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/monDom5/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#opossum">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/monDom5/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#opossum">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#opossum_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>
 <p> 
 Many thanks to The Broad Institute for the opossum assembly data. The monDom5 annotation tracks were
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="../goldenPath/credits.html#opossum_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="070709"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 7, 2009  &nbsp;&nbsp; Engineering job opening with UCSC Genome Browser project</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering is currently accepting applications for a 
 full-time, experienced engineer to develop software and databases for the UCSC Genome Browser and 
 related projects. The successful candidate must be independent, articulate, self-motivated, able to 
 learn and integrate technical information quickly, and have a strong commitment to quality and best 
 engineering practices.</p>
@@ -17325,55 +17325,55 @@
 <h2>Dec. 3, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Horse Genome Browser available</h2> 
 <p>
 The Sep. 2007 EquCab2 release of the horse genome (Equus caballus) is now available in the UCSC 
 Genome Browser. This assembly, UCSC version equCab2, was produced by the 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>. </p> 
 <p> 
 The horse draft genome has been sequenced to 6.8X coverage. Approximately 84% of the sequence has 
 been anchored to chromosomes, which include autosomes 1-31 and sex chromosome X. Unanchored contigs 
 that could not be localized to a chromosome have been concatenated into the virtual chromosome 
 &quot;chrUn&quot;, separated by gaps of 1,000 bp. The mitochondrial sequence is also available in 
 the Genome Browser as the virtual chromosome &quot;chrM&quot;.
 <p>For more details about the current assembly, see the Broad Institute 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/horse/" target="_blank">Horse Genome Project</a> page.</p> 
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/equCab2/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#horse">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/equCab2/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#horse">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#horse_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Horse Genome Browser was produced by Larry Meyer, Hiram Clawson, Pauline Fujita, Brooke 
 Rhead, and Donna Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#horse_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="110708"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 7, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Medaka Genome Browser updated</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have updated the initial UCSC Medaka Genome Browser (oryLat1) to correct an error with chrUn in 
 which the gap relationships between the contigs within their ultracontigs were incorrect. This error
 was introduced by UCSC during the browser assembly process. The corrected replacement browser, 
 oryLat2 (Oct. 2005), is based on the same v1.0 assembly produced by the National Institute of 
 Genetics (NIG) and the University of Tokyo, Japan. We have removed the original oryLat1 assembly 
 from the browser.</p>
 
 <a name="091708"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 17, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Seven assemblies archived</h2> 
 <p>
 We have archived seven older assemblies of the human (hg15), mouse (mm5, mm6), rat (rn2), 
 <em>C. elegans</em> (ce1), zebrafish (danRer2), and cow (bosTau1) genomes. You can continue to 
 download these assemblies from the Genome Browser 
-<a href ="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">downloads server</a>. At least two later 
+<a href ="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">downloads server</a>. At least two later 
 assemblies for each of these organisms remain available on the main Genome Browser site.</p> 
 <p> 
 We do not provide blat servers or updated GenBank data for archived assemblies. However, it is 
 still possible to lift coordinates between these assemblies and those on the main browser site.</p>
 
 <a name="091508"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 15, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Request for input on ENCODE data release plan</h2> 
 <p> 
 The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has updated the data release plan for the 
 <a href="http://www.genome.gov/ENCODE" target="_blank">ENCODE</a> and model organism ENCODE 
 (<a href="http://www.genome.gov/modENCODE" target="_blank">modENCODE</a>) projects. Because the plan
 is intended to take into account the needs and responsibilities of the resource users, NHGRI is 
 soliciting feedback on the proposal from the research community before the plan is finalized. To 
 facilitate this review, UCSC has made the plan available to the community 
 <a href="../encodeDCC/ENCODE_Consortia_Data_Release_Policy_2008-09-11.doc">here</a> on our ENCODE 
@@ -17422,160 +17422,160 @@
 collection of vertebrate genome browsers. The v3.2.4 draft assembly (UCSC version taeGut1) was 
 produced by the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) School 
 of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA.</p> 
 <p> 
 The zebra finch genome is the second bird genome to be sequenced (following the chicken, 
 <em>Gallus gallus</em>). The DNA used for the shotgun sequencing and the BAC and cosmid libraries 
 was derived from a single male zebra finch. The initial assembly was generated using PCAP with 
 approximately 6X coverage. About 1.0 Gb of the 1.2-Gb genome has been ordered and oriented along 33 
 chromosomes and one linkage group. The chromosome names are based on their homologous chromosomes in
 the chicken (<em>Gallus gallus</em>). For more assembly details, as well as a cross reference table 
 of zebra finch and chicken chromosome names, see the WUSTL 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/pub/organism/Other_Vertebrates/Taeniopygia_guttata/assembly/Taeniopygia_guttata-3.2.4/ASSEMBLY" 
 target="_blank">assembly notes</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/taeGut1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafinch">Downloads</a> page. These data 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/taeGut1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafinch">Downloads</a> page. These data 
 have <a href="credits.html#zebrafinch_use">specific conditions for use</a>. Please refer to the 
 WUSTL <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi" target="_blank">data use policy</a> for additional 
 usage guidelines and citation information.</p> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Zebra Finch Genome Browser and initial annotations were produced by Brian Raney, Kayla 
 Smith, Pauline Fujita, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#zebrafinch_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release. </p>
 
 <a name="072208"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 22, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated <em>C. elegans</em> Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 Culminating our recent updates of the nematode browsers on our site, we've released a Genome Browser
 for the latest <em>C. elegans</em> assembly based on sequence version WS190 deposited into WormBase 
 in May 2008. This new assembly (UCSC version ce6) was produced jointly by the Wellcome Trust Sanger 
 Institute in Hinxton, England, and the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. 
 Louis (WUSTL) School of Medicine, MO, USA. The ce6 browser includes a Conservation annotation and 
 pairwise alignment tracks comparing <em>C. elegans</em> sequence with that of five other worms.</p>
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce6">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#c_elegans">Downloads</a> page. Please
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce6">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#c_elegans">Downloads</a> page. Please
 review the WUSTL <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi" target="_blank">data use policy</a> for 
 usage restrictions and citation information.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank WUSTL and the Sanger Institue for providing the sequence data for this assembly. 
 The UCSC ce6 browser was produced by Hiram Clawson, Kayla Smith, Pauline Fujita, Brooke Rhead, and 
 Donna Karolchik. See the Genome Browser <a href="credits.html#worm_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release. </p>
 
 <a name="062608"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 26, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Worm Genome available</h2> 
 <p> 
 Along with the set of worm browser updates that we're currently releasing, we've added a new 
 nematode to the collection: <em>Caenorhabditis japonica</em>. This genome assembly (UCSC version 
 caeJap1, Mar. 2008) corresponds to the v. 3.0.2 assembly produced by the Genome Sequencing Center 
 at the Washington University St. Louis (WUSTL) School of Medicine.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/caeJap1">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#caeJap">Downloads</a> page. Please review the
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/caeJap1">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#caeJap">Downloads</a> page. Please review the
 WUSTL <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi" target="_blank">data use policy</a> for usage 
 restrictions and citation information.</p> 
 <p>
 We'd like to thank WUSTL for providing the sequence data for this assembly. The UCSC caeJap1 browser
 was produced by Hiram Clawson, Ann Zweig, and Donna Karolchik. See the Genome Browser
 <a href="credits.html#worm_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="062008"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 20, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Two worm updates released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We've updated our browsers for the <em>C.  remanei</em> and <em>C. brenneri</em> nematode genomes. 
 Both sets of sequence were obtained from the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in 
 St. Louis (WUSTL) School of Medicine. The  <em>C. remanei</em> assembly (UCSC version caeRem3) 
 corresponds to WUSTL version 15.0.1 dated May 2007. The <em>C. brenneri</em> assembly (UCSC version 
 caePb2) is based on WUSTL version 6.0.1 dated Feb. 2008.</p>
 <p>Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> page. Please review the WUSTL 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> page. Please review the WUSTL 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi" target="_blank">data use policy</a> for usage 
 restrictions and citation information.</p> 
 <p>
 We'd like to thank WUSTL for providing the sequence data for these assemblies. The UCSC worm 
 browsers were produced by Hiram Clawson, Brooke Rhead, Pauline Fujita, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 Genome Browser <a href="credits.html#worm_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="061008b"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 10, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Lamprey Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser for the Mar. 2007 assembly of the lamprey genome, 
 <em>Petromyzon marinus</em>. This assembly, UCSC version petMar1, was produced by the Genome 
 Sequencing Center at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (WUSTL), St. Louis, 
 MO, USA.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/petMar1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lamprey">Downloads</a> page. The lamprey 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/petMar1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lamprey">Downloads</a> page. The lamprey 
 sequence is made freely available before scientific publication. Please see the WUSTL 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi" target="_blank">data use policy</a> for usage 
 restrictions and citation information.</p> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Lamprey Genome Browser was produced by Hiram Clawson, Ann Zweig, Pauline Fujita, and Donna 
 Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#lamprey_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of 
 the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release. </p>
 
 <a name="061008a"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 10, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Lancelet genome available in browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Mar. 2006 release of the lancelet genome (<em>Branchiostoma floridae</em>) is now available in 
 the UCSC Genome Browser. This assembly, UCSC version braFlo1, was produced by the 
 <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Brafl1/Brafl1.info.html" target="_blank">DOE Joint Genome 
 Institute</a> (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA, USA.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/braFlo1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lancelet">Downloads</a> page. The lancelet 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/braFlo1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lancelet">Downloads</a> page. The lancelet 
 sequence is made freely available before scientific publication. Please see the JGI 
 <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Brafl1/Brafl1.download.html" target="_blank">data release 
 policy</a> for usage restrictions and citation information.</p> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Lancelet Genome Browser was produced by Hiram Clawson, Ann Zweig, Pauline Fujita, and Donna
 Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#lancelet_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of 
 the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release. </p>
 
 <a name="060508"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 5, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Guinea Pig Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Feb. 2008 CavPor3 release of the guinea pig genome (<em>Cavia porcellus</em>) is now available 
 in the UCSC Genome Browser. This assembly, UCSC version cavPor3, was produced by the 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The guinea pig is one of 24 mammals whose genomes are being sequenced as part of the 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/" target="_blank">Mammalian Genome Project</a>, funded by 
 the National Institutes of Health. While most of these genomes are slated for low-coverage (2X), a 
 limited subset (including the guinea pig genome) are being sequenced to a higher quality of 
 6-7X.</p> 
 <p> 
 The guinea pig genome has been sequenced to 6.76X coverage with 95.55% of bases assembled. A total 
 of 3143 scaffolds cover 2,722,377,657 bases (2.17% in gaps), with 50% of the scaffolds having a 
 (N50) length of at least 27,408,292 bases (not including gaps). For more details about the assembly,
 see the Broad Institute <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/" target="_blank">Mammmalian 
 Genome Project</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/cavPor3/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#guineapig">Downloads</a> page. These data 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/cavPor3/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#guineapig">Downloads</a> page. These data 
 have <a href="credits.html#guineapig_use">specific conditions for use</a>. </p> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Guinea Pig Genome Browser was produced by Tim Dreszer, Kate Rosenbloom, Hiram Clawson, 
 Kayla Smith, Robert Kuhn, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#guineapig_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="050508"></a>
 <h2>May 5, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; GSID HIV data browser now available</h2> 
 <p> 
 Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases (GSID) has announced the launch of an HIV Data Browser with
 clinical and viral sequence data from infected subjects in the VAX004 (North American/European) 
 Phase III clinical trial of the AIDSVAX B/B vaccine. The browser, which is a customized version of 
 the UCSC Genome Browser developed by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group and hosted by GSID, 
 provides researchers with searchable demographic and clinical data from volunteers who became HIV 
@@ -17606,32 +17606,32 @@
 has contributed to the study of brain function, immunity, reproductive biology and drug toxicity. 
 <em>C. jacchus</em> marmosets typically give birth to twins that are somatic chimeras, i.e. each 
 sibling is the mixture of sibling genotypes. (Excerpted from the WUSTL <em>C. jacchus</em> 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Callithrix%20jacchus" 
 target="_blank">project</a> page.)</p> 
 <p> 
 The <em>C. jacchus</em> genome was sequenced to 6X coverage using DNA from a female marmoset 
 provided by the Southwestern National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, TX, USA. DNA from a 
 full brother of the female was used as the source for the CHORI-259 BAC library. This assembly is 
 composed of 49,724 supercontigs containing a total of approximately 3.02 billion bases. For more 
 statistics and details on the assembly process, refer to the WUSTL Callithrix_jacchus-2.0.2 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/pub/organism/Primates/Callithrix_jacchus/assembly/Callithrix_jacchus-2.0.2/ASSEMBLY" 
 target="_blank">assembly</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the calJac1 sequence and annotations may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/calJac1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#marmoset">Downloads</a> page. The sequence 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/calJac1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#marmoset">Downloads</a> page. The sequence 
 data can also be obtained directly from 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/pub/organism/Primates/Callithrix_jacchus/assembly/Callithrix_jacchus-2.0.2/" 
 target="_blank">WUSTL</a>. See the WUSTL <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi" 
 target="_blank">data use policy</a> for conditions of use. Please acknowledge WUSTL School of Medicine
 Genome Sequencing Center in any publications that result from the use of this sequence assembly.</p>
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank WUSTL School of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center for providing this assembly. 
 The initial set of marmoset browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC. The UCSC marmoset 
 Genome Browser team is Hiram Clawson, Robert Kuhn, Pauline Fujita, Brooke Rhead, and Donna 
 Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#marmoset_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of 
 the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="041508"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 15, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Introducing the Archaeal Genome Browser Database</h2> 
 <p> 
@@ -17676,32 +17676,32 @@
 as &quot;chrM&quot;) was obtained from GenBank accession GI:60101824.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Btau_4.0 assembly was tested against available bovine sequence data sets (EST sequences and 
 finished BAC sequences) for extent of coverage (completeness). When assembled contigs were tested, 
 over 95% of the sequences in these data sets were found to be represented, indicating that the 
 shotgun libraries used to sequence the genome were comprehensive. Of the 1.04 million EST sequences 
 95.0% were contained in the assembled contigs. Assuming the ESTs are uniformly distributed 
 throughout the genome, the estimated genome size is 2.73Gb/95% = 2.87Gb. For detailed information 
 on the sequencing and assembly techniques, see the Baylor 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/bovine/" target="_blank">Bovine Genome Project</a> web
 page.</p> 
 <p> 
 For a list of the chromosomes and scaffolds in this assembly, click the &quot;Sequences&quot; link 
 on the cow browser <a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=bosTau4">gateway</a> page.</p> 
 <p>Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau4">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau4">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target="_blank">specific conditions for use</a>. The cow annotation tracks were generated by UCSC 
 and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Baylor College of Medicine for providing this assembly. The UCSC bosTau4 browser 
 and documentation were produced by Hiram Clawson, Brian Raney, and Ann Zweig. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#cow_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="032408"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 24, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; Free Genome Browser institutional seminars</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Bioinformatics Group announces your chance to bring our hands-on computer workshop on the 
 UCSC Genome Browser to your institution. The seminar is presented by our training partner, 
 <a href="http://www.openhelix.com" target="_blank">OpenHelix</a>.</p> 
@@ -17748,32 +17748,32 @@
 &quot;Susie&quot; from the Gladys Park Zoo (Brownsville, TX, USA). The combined sequence reads were 
 assembled using <a href="http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/9/2164" 
 target="_blank">PCAP</a> and filtered for all known non-orangutan sequence contaminants. For more 
 details about the assembly, see the orangutan browser 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=ponAbe2">gateway</a> page and the WUSTL 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Pongo%20abelii" target="_blank"><em>Pongo 
 abelii</em></a> web page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Of the 3.09 Gb of total sequence, 3.08 Gb are ordered and oriented along the chromosomes. Gap sizes 
 between supercontigs were estimated based on their size in human, with a maximum gap size of 30 kb 
 allowed. For a list of the chromosomes in this assembly, click the &quot;Sequences&quot; link on the
 orangutan browser <a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=ponAbe2">gateway</a> page. The mitochondrial 
 sequence is also available as the virtual chromosome &quot;chrM&quot;.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ponAbe2">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#orangutan">Downloads</a> page. These data 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ponAbe2">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#orangutan">Downloads</a> page. These data 
 have <a href="credits.html#orangutan_use">specific conditions for use</a>. The orangutan browser 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank WUSTL for providing this assembly. The UCSC ponAbe2 browser and documentation 
 were produced by Hiram Clawson, Kayla Smith, Robert Kuhn, Ann Zweig and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#orangutan_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="030708"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 7, 2008 &nbsp;&nbsp; New reverse functionality released</h2> 
 <p>
 The Genome Browser team is happy to announce new functionality in the main Genome Browser track 
 display. A new configuration button, &quot;Reverse,&quot; now allows users to view the entire 
 browser image flipped right-to-left. This is especially useful when a user's gene of interest aligns
 on the opposite strand from the reference assembly. Those genes then appear in the 5' to 3' 
@@ -17824,32 +17824,32 @@
 UCSC Genome Browser. The Zv7 assembly was produced by The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 
 collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, and the
 Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology (Hubrecht Laboratory), Utrecht, The Netherlands.</p>
 <p> 
 This assembly consists of 1,440,582,308 bp in 5,036 fragments. It includes sequence anchored to 
 chromosomes 1-25 and chrM (mitochondrial), as well as 5010 unplaced scaffolds. The assembly was 
 produced by integrating finished clone sequence from the physical map with whole genome shotgun 
 assembly sequence. The N50 size is 1,153,933, n = 277 (i.e. the length such that 50% of the 
 assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer). For more information about this 
 assembly, see the Sanger Institute web page for the 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/Zv7_assembly_information.shtml" 
 target="_blank"><em>Danio rerio</em> Sequencing Project</a> and the track description page for the 
 Assembly track.</p> 
 <p> 
 The danRer5 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer5/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer5/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
 the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/notices/use-policy.shtml" target="_blank">guidelines</a> for 
 using these data.</p>
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Developmental 
 Biology, Hubrecht Laboratory and the other institutions who contributed to the sequencing and 
 mapping effort of this release. Special thanks to the Zebrafish Genome Initiative at Children's 
 Hospital in Boston for their collaboration on this release. The UCSC zebrafish Genome Browser was 
 produced by Rachel Harte, Ann Zweig, and Donna Karolchik. The initial set of annotation tracks was 
 generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#zebrafish_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <a name="101007"></a>
 <h2>10 Oct. 10, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Browser for Purple Sea Urchin</h2> 
 <p> 
@@ -17867,138 +17867,138 @@
 <p> 
 Compared to previous sea urchin releases, the Spur_2.1 assembly is more continuous and has fewer 
 false duplications; contaminations identified in the previous Spur_2.0 assembly have been removed.  
 This draft assembly may contain errors; therefore, users should exercise caution. Typical errors may
 include misassemblies of repeat sequences, collapses of repeat regions, and artificial duplications 
 in polymorphic regions. However, base accuracy in contigs is usually very high with most errors near
 the ends of contigs.</p> 
 <p> 
 More assembly details can be found in the 
 <a href="ftp://ftp.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/pub/data/Spurpuratus/fasta/Spur_v2.1/README_Spur_v2.1.txt" 
 target="_blank">Spur_2.1 README file</a> and on the BCM HGSC 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/seaurchin/" target="_blank">Sea Urchin Genome 
 Project</a> web page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/strPur2">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#urchin">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/strPur2">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#urchin">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" target="_blank">specific 
 conditions for use</a>. The initial set of strPur2 annotation tracks was generated by UCSC. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#urchin_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release. </p>
 
 <a name="100407"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 4, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; ENCODE Genome Browser Released for hg18 Assembly</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC ENCODE browser for the human genome assembly hg18 (NCBI Build 36) is now available. You can
 access the browser directly at
 <a href="../ENCODE/encode.hg18.html">http://genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE/encode.hg18.html</a> or by 
 clicking the ENCODE link in the sidebar menu on this page, then clicking the Regions (hg18) link in 
 the sidebar menu on the ENCODE portal page.</p> 
 <p> 
 The hg18 ENCODE browser includes 540 data tables in 59 browser tracks that were migrated from the 
 hg17 browser. The hg17 data coordinates were converted to hg18 coordinates using the UCSC liftOver 
 process.</p> 
 <p> 
 To improve the accessibility of the data, related ENCODE tracks have been gathered into new 
 configuration groupings (&quot;super-tracks&quot;) that can be displayed or hidden using a single 
 visiblity control. We have also reduced the number of track groups and have modified some of the 
 group names for clarity. ENCODE tracks with whole-genome data have been moved into the standard 
 browser track groups.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the hg18 ENCODE data migration, see the News section on the UCSC 
 <a href="../ENCODE/">ENCODE portal page</a> and the UCSC 
-<a href="http://genomewiki.soe.ucsc.edu/index.php/ENCODE_Hg18_Migration" 
+<a href="http://genomewiki.gi.ucsc.edu/index.php/ENCODE_Hg18_Migration" 
 target="_blank">genomeWiki</a>.</p>
 
 <a name="082207b"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 22, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Mouse Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest mouse genome assembly from the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, NCBI Build 37.1, is 
 now available in the UCSC Genome Browser. This version (UCSC version mm9) is considered to be 
 essentially finished.</p>
 <p> 
 The Build 37.1 assembly includes approximately 2.6 Gb of sequence on chromosomes 1-19, X, Y, M 
 (mitochondrial DNA) and Un (unmapped clone contigs). In-depth information about this assembly will 
 become available on the 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000001635.16/"
 target="_blank">NCBI website</a>. On chromosome Y in this assembly, only the short arm has reliable 
 mapping data; therefore, most of the contigs on the Y chromosome are unplaced.</p> 
 <p> 
 The mm9 sequence and annotation data may be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm9/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm9/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm9 annotation 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm9/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm9/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm9 annotation 
 tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. NOTE: To expedite the availability of the
 mm9 browser on our website, the initial release does not contain the comparative genomics 
 annotations. These will be added to our website as they become available. Also, note that the UCSC 
 mm9 database contains only the reference strain C57BL/6J.</p>
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Deanna Church and the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for this assembly. 
 We'd also like to acknowledge the work of the UCSC mm9 team: Hiram Clawson, Archana Thakkapallayil, 
 Robert Kuhn, and Donna Karolchik. For a complete list of the individuals and organizations who 
 participated in this assembly, see the <a href="credits.html#mouse_credits">Credits</a> page.</p>
 
 <a name="082207a"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 22, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Latest Bovine assembly available</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has released a Genome Browser and Blat server for the Aug. 2006
 Btau_3.1 draft assembly of the cow genome. This assembly (UCSC version bosTau3) was provided by 
 Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, TX.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Btau_3.1 release was produced by the Atlas genome assembly system at Baylor College of Medicine 
 Human Genome Sequencing Center. The  sequencing strategy combined BAC shotgun reads with whole 
 genome shotgun reads from small insert libraries as well as BAC end sequences. The assembly contains
 chromosomes 1-29 and X as well as 13045 scaffolds (named chrUn.003.*). More information on the 
 Btau_3.1 assembly can be found on the Baylor <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/bovine/" 
 target="_blank">Bovine Genome Project</a> web page and the 
 <a href="ftp://ftp.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/pub/data/Btaurus/fasta/Btau20060815-freeze/ReadMeBovine.3.1.txt"
 target="_blank">Readme</a> file that accompanies this release.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau3/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. Please refer to the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau3/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. Please refer to the 
 Baylor <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target="_blank">conditions of use</a> regarding these data. The bosTau3 annotation tracks were 
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p>
 We'd like to thank Baylor College of Medicine for the bovine sequence and assembly. We'd also like 
 to acknowledge the members of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group who contributed to the Cow Genome
 Browser: Heather Trumbower, Angie Hinrichs, Kayla Smith, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#cow_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="080207"></a>
 <Aug. 2, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Five new worm assemblies</h2> 
 <p> 
 We've updated our existing nematode browsers--for <em>C.  elegans</em> and <em>C. briggsae</em>--to 
 the latest publicly available assemblies. In addition, we've added three new worms to our 
 collection: <em>C. brenneri</em> (Caenorhabditis n. sp. PB2801), <em>C. remanei</em>, and 
 <em>Pristionchus pacificus</em>. The <em>C. elegans</em> sequence was obtained from WormBase; the 
 Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) provided sequence data for 
 the other four assemblies.</p> 
 <table>       
   <tr><th nowrap>SPECIES</th><th nowrap>UCSC VERSION</th><th nowrap>RELEASE DATE</th><th nowrap>SOURCE/RELEASE</th></tr> 
   <tr><td><em>C. elegans</em></td><td>ce4</td><td>Jan. 2007</td><td>WormBase v. WS170</td></tr> 
   <tr><td><em>C. briggsae</em></td><td>cb3</td><td>Jan. 2007</td><td>WUSTL Cb3</td></tr> 
   <tr><td><em>C. brenneri</em></td><td>caePb1</td><td>Jan. 2007</td><td>WUSTL 4.0</td></tr> 
   <tr><td><em>C. remanei</em></td><td>caeRem2</td><td>Mar. 2007</td><td>WUSTL 1.0</td></tr> 
   <tr><td><em>P. pacificus</em></td><td>priPac1</td><td>Feb. 2007</td><td>WUSTL 5.0</td></tr> 
 </table> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> page. Please review the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> page. Please review the 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi" target="_blank">data use policy</a> for the 
 WUSTL-generated assemblies. </p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank WUSTL, WormBase, and the Sanger Institute for providing the sequence data for 
 these assemblies. The UCSC worm browsers were produced by Hiram Clawson, Kayla Smith, Brooke Rhead, 
 Ann Zweig, and Donna Karolchik. See the Genome Browser <a href="credits.html">Credits</a> page for 
 a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="071307"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 13, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> Release 5 now available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest <em>D. melanogaster</em> assembly can now be viewed in the UCSC Genome Browser. This 
 version -- Release 5, dated Apr. 2006 (UCSC version dm3) -- was provided by the 
 <a href="http://www.fruitfly.org/" target="_blank">Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project</a> (BDGP) and
 combines both euchromatic and heterochromatic sequence. The Release 5.1 annotations (Mar. 2007) were
@@ -18007,32 +18007,32 @@
 The six euchromatic arms in this assembly were sequenced and assembled by BDGP from a combination of
 BAC and whole genome shotgun data, and have been finished to high quality.  All euchromatic sequence
 have been compared to the restriction digest fingerprints in multiple enzymes for validity. The 
 details of this analysis will be described in a forthcoming publication.</p> 
 <p> 
 Heterochromatic sequence from the <a href="http://www.fruitfly.org/" target="_blank">Drosophila 
 Heterochromatin Genome Project</a> (DHGP) are also available in this assembly. Scaffolds that could 
 not be unambiguously mapped to a chromosome arm have been concatenated into chrUn. chrUextra 
 contains small scaffolds produced by the Celera shotgun assembler that could not be consistently 
 joined with larger scaffolds. Because some of the chrUextra data are of low quality, researchers are
 encouraged to contact either BDGP or DHGP for further details on this resource. For more information
 on this assembly, see the Release 5 <a href="http://www.fruitfly.org/sequence/README.RELEASE5" 
 target="_blank">assembly release notes</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm3/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fruitfly">Downloads</a> page. We'd like to 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm3/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fruitfly">Downloads</a> page. We'd like to 
 thank the BDGP, DHGP, and Flybase for providing data for this release. The dm3 Genome Browser was 
 produced by Angie Hinrichs, Archana Thakkapallayil, Kayla Smith, and Donna Karolchik. The 
 <em>D. melanogaster</em> browser annotations were generated by FlyBase, DHGP, and the UCSC Genome 
 Bioinformatics group. See the <a href="credits.html#dm_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list
 of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="062607"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 26, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; New 28-Species Conservation track released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of new versions of the Conservation and Most Conserved 
 annotation tracks for the Human March 2006 Genome Browser (hg18, NCBI Build 36). The new 
 Conservation track displays multiple alignments of 27 vertebrate species aligned to the human 
 genome, along with measurements of evolutionary conservation across all species in the alignment and
 a separate measurement of conservation across the placental mammal subset of species in the 
 alignment.</p> 
@@ -18056,33 +18056,33 @@
 genomes in the track are available from our downloads server.</p> 
 <p> 
 In addition to the expanded species list, the new Conservation track features the following 
 improvements: 
 <ul> 
   <li> 
   additional filtering of pairwise alignments for each species to reduce paralogous alignments</li> 
   <li> 
   information about the quality of aligning species sequence included in the multiple alignment 
   downloads</li> 
   <li> 
   new track configuration buttons to assist in selecting which species to display</li> 
 </ul> 
 <p> 
 Bulk data downloads are available from the Genome Browser FTP server 
-(<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/multiz28way">alignments</a>, 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/phastCons28way">conservation</a>) or from the
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#human">Downloads page</a>.</p> 
+(<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/multiz28way">alignments</a>, 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/phastCons28way">conservation</a>) or from the
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#human">Downloads page</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The previous 17-vertebrate versions of the Conservation and Most Conserved tracks remain available 
 on the hg18 Genome Browser as the &quot;17-Way Cons&quot; and &quot;17-Way Most Cons&quot; 
 tracks.</p>
 
 <a name="061307"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 13, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; ENCODE findings released to public</h2> 
 <p> 
 The findings of the ENCODE project have been released to the public today, the culmination of a 
 four-year effort to catalog the biologically functional elements in 1 percent of the human genome. 
 The publications, which include a group paper in the 14 June 2007 issue of 
 <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/nature05874.html" 
 target="_blank"><em>Nature</em></a> and 28 companion papers in the June 2007 issue of 
 <a href="http://www.genome.org/content/vol17/issue6/" target="_blank"><em>Genome Research</em></a>, 
 were authored by researchers from academic, governmental, and industry organizations located in 11 
@@ -18113,51 +18113,51 @@
 release</a> on the UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering website.</p>
 
 <a name="052507"></a>
 <h2>May 25, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Platypus Assembly available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser and Blat server for the Jan. 2007 v5.0.1 draft assembly of 
 <em>Ornithorhynchus anatinus</em> (UCSC version ornAna1) produced by the 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Ornithorhynchus%20anatinus" 
 target="_blank">Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University</a>, St. Louis, MO (WUSTL).</p> 
 <p> 
 This assembly, which was sequenced using a combination of whole genome shotgun plasmid, fosmid and 
 BAC end sequences, has a coverage of approximately 6X. It is comprised of about 1.84 Gb of actual 
 sequence (excluding gap estimates), with 437 Mb anchored and ordered on chromosomes.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ornAna1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#platypus">Downloads</a> page. These data have
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ornAna1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#platypus">Downloads</a> page. These data have
 <a href="credits.html#platypus_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank WUSTL for providing this assembly. The platypus Genome Browser was produced by 
 Angie Hinrichs, Kayla Smith, Robert Kuhn, Brian Raney, and Donna Karolchik. The platypus browser 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#platypus_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="051707"></a>
 <h2>May 17, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Lizard Assembly available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 A Genome Browser and Blat server are now available for the Feb. 2007 v1.0 draft assembly (UCSC 
 version anoCar1) of <em>Anolis carolinensis</em> produced by the <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/"
 target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>. This assembly has been sequenced to 6.8X coverage. The draft 
 sequence contains 7,233 scaffolds comprised of nearly 1.74 Gb.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/anoCar1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lizard">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/anoCar1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#lizard">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#lizard_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Broad Institute for providing this assembly. The lizard Genome Browser was 
 produced by Hiram Clawson, Archana Thakkapallayil, Robert Kuhn, and Donna Karolchik. The lizard 
 browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#lizard_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="051607"></a>
 <h2>May 16, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; New dates for OpenHelix seminars in L.A., D.C., Phila.</h2> 
 <p> 
 The dates for the upcoming OpenHelix Genome Browser seminars in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, CA
 have been changed. The following updated announcement includes the new dates:</p> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Bioinformatics Group announces three regional seminars and hands-on computer workshops on 
@@ -18191,57 +18191,57 @@
 <h2>May 14, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Horse Genome Browser now available</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Jan. 2007 EquCab1 release of the horse genome (<em>Equus caballus</em>) is now available in the 
 UCSC Genome Browser. This assembly, UCSC version equCab1, was produced by the 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The horse draft genome has been sequenced to 6.8X coverage. Approximately 84% of the sequence has 
 been anchored to chromosomes, which include autosomes 1-31 and sex chromosome X. Unanchored contigs 
 that could not be localized to a chromosome have been concatenated into the virtual chromosome 
 &quot;chrUn&quot;, separated by gaps of 1,000 bp. The mitochondrial sequence is also available in 
 the Genome Browser as the virtual chromosome &quot;chrM&quot;. For more details about the assembly, 
 see the Broad Institute <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/horse/" target="_blank">Horse 
 Genome Project</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/equCab1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#horse">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/equCab1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#horse">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#horse_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Horse Genome Browser was produced by Fan Hsu, Brooke Rhead, Robert Kuhn, Hiram Clawson, 
 Angie Hinrichs, Kate Rosenbloom, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#horse_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="042707"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 27, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Medaka Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We're happy to announce the release of a Genome Browser and Blat server for the Medaka Version 1.0 
 draft assembly (Apr. 2006, UCSC version oryLat1). This assembly was produced in Japan by the 
 <a href="http://www.nig.ac.jp/english/index.html" target="_blank">National Institute of Genetics</a>
 (NIG) and the <a href="http://medaka.utgenome.org/" target="_blank">University of Tokyo</a>. It is 
 equivalent to Ensembl's Oct. 2005 MEDAKA1 data set.</p> 
 <p>
 The v1.0 assembly has been sequenced to 10.6X coverage. It consists of approximately 700.4 million 
 bp (excluding gaps) on chromosomes 1-24. 7,299 scaffolds comprised of nearly 36,500 contigs of 
 unplaced sequence are displayed on the virtual chromosome &quot;chrUn&quot; These contigs are spaced
 with a 10 bp gap; scaffold gaps are 100 bp in size. The medaka mitochondrial sequence is also 
 available in the Genome Browser as the virtual chromosome &quot;chrM&quot;.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/oryLat1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#medaka">Downloads</a> page. See the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/oryLat1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#medaka">Downloads</a> page. See the 
 University of Tokyo Medaka website for the <a href="http://medaka.utgenome.org/#policy" 
 target="_blank">data release policy</a> for this assembly.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Medaka browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 Genome Browser <a href="credits.html#medaka_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="041807"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 18, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Free Genome Browser seminar at Experimental Biology 2007</h2> 
 <p> 
 OpenHelix will present a free introductory seminar on the Genome Browser during Experimental 
 Biology 2007, April 29-May 1, in Washington, D.C. The tutorial will cover the topics needed to 
 effectively use the Genome Browser, including: basic functionality of Genome Browser searching and 
 BLAT use, Table Browser use, creating and using Custom Tracks, and an introduction to the Gene 
 Sorter.</p> 
@@ -18262,32 +18262,32 @@
 <h2>Apr. 11, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Latest Fugu assembly available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Browser now includes the latest release of the Fugu genome. The v4.0 whole genome 
 shotgun assembly (Oct. 2004, UCSC fr2) was provided by the US DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) as 
 part of the International Fugu Genome Consortium led by the JGI and the Singapore Institute of 
 Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB).</p> 
 <p> 
 This version has been sequenced to approximately 8.5X coverage. The assembly contains 7,213 
 scaffolds covering 393,312,790 bp. The UCSC browser displays the scaffolds on the virtual chromosome
 <em>chrUn</em> with gaps of 1,000 bp between scaffolds. The scaffolds range in size from 2,223 bp to
 7,245,445 bp. Fifty percent of the sequence (196,648,171 bp) is contained within 125 scaffolds of 
 size 858,115 or greater (N50). The Fugu mitochondrial sequence is also available as the virtual 
 chromosome <em>chrM</em> (GenBank accession: NC_004299.1).</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/fr2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fugu">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/fr2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fugu">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 been freely provided by the JGI for use in the UCSC Genome Browser.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the JGI, IMCB, and the International Fugu Genome Consortium for the assembly data. 
 The UCSC Fugu Genome Browser was produced by Cory McClean, Hiram Clawson, Ann Zweig, and Donna 
 Karolchik. The annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#fugu_credits" target="_blank">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="040607"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 6, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; New UCSC Gene Prediction set released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new gene prediction set, UCSC Genes, on the latest human
 Genome Browser (hg18, NCBI Build 36). This annotation, which includes putative non-coding genes as 
 well as protein-coding genes and 99.9% of RefSeq genes, is the next generation of the Known Genes 
 set that UCSC has been providing for several years and supersedes the existing Known Genes 
@@ -18349,32 +18349,32 @@
 
 <a name="032707"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 27, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Stickleback assembly released in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser and Blat server for the Feb. 2006 v1.0 draft assembly of 
 <em>Gasterosteus aculeatus</em> produced by the <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/" 
 target="_blank">Broad Institute</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 This assembly has been sequenced to approximately 6X coverage. An estimated  87% of the sequence has
 been anchored to chromosomes (chrI - chrXXI). Of the remaining unanchored scaffolds, those that 
 could be localized to a chromosome have been concatenated into the virtual chromosome 
 &quot;chrUn&quot; with 1000bp gaps between scaffolds. The stickleback mitochondrial sequence is also
 available as the virtual chromosome &quot;chrM&quot;.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gasAcu1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#stickleback">Downloads</a> page.These data 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gasAcu1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#stickleback">Downloads</a> page.These data 
 have <a href="credits.html#stickleback_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The stickleback browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See 
 the <a href="credits.html#stickleback_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="021607"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 16, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; New browser session-sharing function available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new session management functionality in the Genome 
 Browser, which allows users to save and share browser sessions.</p> 
 <p> 
 Users are now able to configure their browsers with specific track combinations, including custom 
 tracks, and save the configuraton options. Multiple sessions may be saved for future reference, for 
 comparison of scenarios or for sharing with colleagues. Saved sessions persist for one year after 
@@ -18423,32 +18423,32 @@
 <a name="012207"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 22, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Cat assembly available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Mar. 2006 release of <em>Felis catus</em> (UCSC version felCat3) is now available in the Genome 
 Browser. This assembly was produced by <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/" target="_blank">The Broad
 Institute</a> of MIT/Harvard and <a href="http://www.agencourt.com/" target="_blank">Agencourt 
 Bioscience</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The felCat3 genome has been sequenced to 2X coverage and consists of 217,790 scaffolds. The total 
 contig length for this assembly is approximately 1.6 Gb spanning nearly 4.0 Gb (with 60.1&#37; in 
 gaps). There are 749,376 contigs, with an N50 length of 2,506 bases. There are 149,283 supercontigs,
 with an N50 length of 49,769 bases (not including gaps). The N50 size is the length such that 
 50&#37; of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer.</p> 
 <p> 
 The felCat3 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat3/"> FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat">Downloads</a> page. Please review the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat3/"> FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat">Downloads</a> page. Please review the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#cat_use">guidelines</a> for using the cat assembly data.</p>      
 <p> 
 Many thanks to The Broad Institute for providing these data. The UCSC cat Genome Browser was 
 produced by Heather Trumbower, Angie Hinrichs, Mark Diekhans, Brooke Rhead, and Archana 
 Thakkapallayil. The initial set of annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics
 Group. See the Genome Browser <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#cat_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this 
 browser.</p>
 
 <a name="010107"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 1, 2007 &nbsp;&nbsp; Upcoming Genome Browser seminars: SF, Seattle, NYC, Cleveland</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Bioinformatics Group announces four regional seminars and hands-on computer workshops on 
 the UCSC Genome Browser, presented by <a href="http://www.openhelix.com/" 
 target="_blank">OpenHelix:</a></p>
@@ -18540,49 +18540,49 @@
   Create and upload description pages for custom tracks</li>
   <li> 
   Custom tracks will now persist on our server for 48 hours after last access (rather than 8
   hours)</li>
 </ul> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the new custom tracks functionality, see the Genome Browser 
 <a href="help/customTrack.html">Users's Guide</a>. The hgCustom CGI was written by Kate Rosenbloom 
 with the assistance of Archana Thakkapallayil, Ann Zweig and other members of the UCSC Genome 
 Bioinformatics Group.</p>
 
 <a name="090706"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 7, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; Old Rhesus assembly archived</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Jan. 2005 rheMac1 draft assembly has been archived. The data remain available on our 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac1/">downloads server</a>, but blat 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac1/">downloads server</a>, but blat 
 services are no longer supported. </p>
 
 <a name="080806"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 8, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Opossum assembly available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Browser now includes the latest draft assembly of the opossum genome. The Jan. 2006 
 release of <em>Monodelphis domestica</em> (UCSC version monDom4) was sequenced and assembled by 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/opossum/" target="_blank">The Broad Institute</a>, 
 Cambridge, MA, USA.</p> 
 <p> 
 This draft, which has approximately 6.5X coverage, has an assembly length of nearly 3.61 billion bp 
 including gaps (3.50 billion bp without gaps) contained on chromosomes 1-8, X, and Un. The N50 of 
 the genome including gaps is 104,359 bp; the N50 without gaps is 107,990. The N50 size is the length
 such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer.</p> 
 <p> 
 The monDom4 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/monDom4/"> FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/monDom4/">Downloads</a> page. Please review the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/monDom4/"> FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/monDom4/">Downloads</a> page. Please review the 
 <a href="credits.html#opossum_use">guidelines</a> for using the opposum assembly data.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to The Broad Institute for providing these data. The UCSC opossum Genome Browser was 
 produced by Hiram Clawson, Archana Thakkapallayil, Ann Zweig, Kayla Smith and Donna Karolchik. The 
 initial set of annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group. See the 
 Genome Browser <a href="credits.html#opossum_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <a name="080106"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 1, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; v2.1 Chicken assembly available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have updated the Chicken Genome Browser to include the May 2006 v2.1 assembly (UCSC version 
 galGal3) produced by the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University School of Medicine 
 in St. Louis, MO, USA (WUSTL). The source of this sequence was a female inbred Red Jungle Fowl 
 (<em>Gallus gallus</em>), the ancestor of domestic chickens. The chicken genome is the first of the 
@@ -18596,32 +18596,32 @@
 the virtual chromosomes &quot;chr*_random&quot;, separated by gaps of 10,000 bp.  Unanchored contigs
 that could not be localized to a chromosome have been concatenated into the virtual chromosome 
 &quot;chrUn_random&quot;, separated by gaps of 100 bp to reduce the total size of chrUn_random. The 
 chicken mitochondrial sequence is also available as the virtual chromosome &quot;chrM&quot;.</p> 
 <p> 
 Although centromere positions are indicated on this assembly, little is known of their exact 
 sequence. The centromeres of 18 chromosomes were tentatively localized based on FISH hybridization 
 using BAC clones, genetic markers flanking the centromeres in coordination with mapping gaps in the 
 physical map, repetitive sequence content, and analysis of proximity to the constrictions of the 
 mitotic metaphase chromosomes. For more information on the process used to create the chromosomal 
 sequences and assign centromere locations, see the WUSTL 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/detail/gallus-gallus/" target="_blank">Gallus gallus 
 genome</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the chicken sequence and annotations may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal3/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chicken">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal3/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chicken">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#chicken_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>
 <p>
 We'd like to thank WUSTL, who provided the sequence, physical map, assembly, and assembly/map for 
 this release. The genetic mapping and linkage analysis were produced through a collaborative effort 
 of labs in The Chicken Mapping Consortium. The chicken browser annotation tracks were generated by 
 UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#chicken_credits">Credits</a> page 
 for a detailed list of acknowledgements. The UCSC Chicken Genome Browser was produced by Angie 
 Hinrichs, Kayla Smith, and Donna Karolchik.</p> 
 
 <a name="072006"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 20, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Chimpanzee Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are happy to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the latest release of the chimpanzee 
 (Pan troglodytes) genome. The Mar. 2006 assembly -- labeled Chimp Build 2 Version 1 (UCSC version 
 panTro2) -- was produced by the 
@@ -18647,149 +18647,149 @@
 of 9.7 Mb. The total contig length, not including estimated gap sizes, is 2.97 Gb. Of that total, 
 2.82 Gb of sequence have been ordered and oriented along specific chimpanzee chromosomes, 107 Mb 
 have been placed in chr*_random, and 50 Mb remain in chrUn.</p> 
 <p> 
 A major difference between this assembly and the previous Nov. 2003 version is the chromosomal 
 numbering scheme, which  has been changed to reflect a new standard that preserves orthology with 
 human chromomes. Proposed by 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15218271&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum" 
 target="_blank">E.H. McConkey</a> in 2004, the new numbering convention was subsequently endorsed by
 the International Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. This standard assigns the 
 identifiers &quot;2a&quot; and &quot;2b&quot; to the two chimp chromosomes that fused in the human 
 genome to form chromosome 2. Note that the genome assembly shown in the Nov. 2003 panTro1 Genome 
 Browser retains the older numbering scheme, in which these chromosomes are numbered 12 and 13.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panTro2/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chimp">Downloads</a> page. The complete set 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panTro2/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chimp">Downloads</a> page. The complete set 
 of sequence reads is available at the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces" 
 target="_blank">NCBI trace archive</a>. These data have <a href="credits.html#chimp_use">specific 
 conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the International Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium, Washington 
 University at St. Louis School of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center, and the Broad Institute for 
 providing this sequence. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC team who worked on this release: 
 Kate Rosenbloom, Brian Raney, Hiram Clawson, Ann Zweig, Archana Thakkapallayil, and Donna Karolchik.
 The chimpanzee browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p>
 
 <a name="062006"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 20, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser released for Baylor v3.4 Rat assembly</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group has released a Genome Browser for the v3.4 rat (<em>Rattus 
 norvegicus</em>) genome. This assembly--UCSC version rn4, November 2004--was produced by the Atlas 
 group at <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/" target="_blank">Baylor Human Genome Sequencing 
 Center</a> (HGSC) as part of the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium.</p> 
 <p> 
 The sequence was assembled using a hybrid approach that combines the clone-by-clone and whole genome
 shotgun methods. The assembly is a minor update to version 3.3 that spliced in 54.6 Mb finished BAC 
 sequences; the overall statistics are unchanged from releases 3.0 to 3.4.</p> 
 <p> 
 The 3.x assemblies reflect several sequence additions and software improvements over the previous 
 2.x assemblies, including the sequencing of over 1100 new BACs to cover gaps, an improved marker 
 set from the Medical College of Wisconsin, a new FPC map from the BC Cancer Agency Genome Sciences 
 Centre, and improved linking of bactigs. For detailed information and statistics about the 3.x 
 assemblies, see the Baylor HGSC <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/rat/" 
 target="_blank">Rat Genome Project</a> web page. </p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn4/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rat">Downloads</a> page. These data are made 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn4/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rat">Downloads</a> page. These data are made 
 available with 	<a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#rat_use">specific conditions for use</a>. 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium and the Baylor HGSC for providing this 
 assembly. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC team who produced the rn4 Genome Browser: Angie 
 Hinrichs, Fan Hsu, Brooke Rhead, Archana Thakkapallayil, Kayla Smith, Ann Zweig, Robert Kuhn, and 
 Donna Karolchik. The rn4 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See 
 the <a href="credits.html#rat_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="061206"></a>
 <h2>Jun. 12, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; Latest <em>X. tropicalis</em> assembly available in Browser</h2> 
 <p> The v.4.1 <em>Xenopus tropicalis</em> assembly is now available on the UCSC Genome Browser. This
 whole genome shotgun assembly (xenTro2, Aug. 2005) was generated by the U.S. DOE Joint Genome 
 Institute (JGI) using the Jazz assembler. It contains 19,501 scaffolds with an average coverage of 
 7.65X. Roughly half the genome is contained in 272 scaffolds, each of at least 1.56 Mb in 
 length.</p> 
 <p> 
 In this release, some scaffolds showing homology to a known prokaryotic contaminant as well as 
 non-cellular or vector contamination have been removed by the JGI and placed in a separate 
 directory. The <em>X.  tropicalis</em> assembly will be improved over the coming year by additional 
 sequencing of large insert clones, targeted gap closure, and the incorporation of physical and 
 genetic mapping information as it becomes available.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the 4.1 assembly, see the JGI 
 <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Xentr4/Xentr4.home.html" target="_blank"><em>X. tropicalis</em> 
 website</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The xenTro2 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xenTro">downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xenTro">downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Xentr4/Xentr4.download.html" target="_blank">specific conditions 
 for use</a>.</p>
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the JGI and the other institutions who contributed to the sequencing and mapping 
 effort for this release. The xenTro2 Genome Browser was produced by Angie Hinrichs, Kayla Smith, 
 Robert Kuhn, and Donna Karolchik. The xenTro2 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and 
 collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#xenTro_credits">credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="052506"></a>
 <h2>May 25, 2006 - Zv6 Zebrafish Browser Released</h2> 
 <p>
 The latest zebrafish assembly -- Zv6 (UCSC version danRer4, March 2006) -- is now available in the 
 UCSC Genome Browser. The Zv6 assembly was produced by The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 
 collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, and the
 Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology (Hubrecht Laboratory), Utrecht, The Netherlands.</p>
 <p> 
 This assembly consists of 1,626,077,335 bp in 6.653 scaffolds (N50 = 1,247,221 bp) with a sequence 
 coverage of approximately 6.5-7x. The sequence has been anchored to chromosomes 1-25, chrM 
 (mitochondrial), chrNA_random, and chrUn_random. For more information about this assembly, see the 
 Sanger Institute web page for the 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/Zv6_assembly_information.shtml/" 
 target="_blank"><em>Danio rerio</em> Sequencing Project</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 The danRer4 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer4/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer4/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
 the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/use-policy.shtml" target="_blank">guidelines</a> for 
 using these data.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Developmental 
 Biology, Hubrecht Laboratory and the other institutions who contributed to the sequencing and 
 mapping effort of this release. Special thanks to the Zebrafish Genome Initiative at Children's 
 Hospital in Boston for their collaboration on this release. The UCSC zebrafish Genome Browser was 
 produced by Rachel Harte, Archana Thakkapallayil, Robert Kuhn, Ann Zweig, and Donna Karolchik. The 
 initial set of annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group.  See the 
 <a href="credits.html#zebrafish_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <a name="051006"></a>
 <h2>May 10, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; NCBI Mouse Build 36 released in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest mouse genome assembly from the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, NCBI Build 36, is now 
 available in the UCSC Genome Browser. This version (UCSC version mm8) is considered to be 
 essentially finished.</p>  
 <p> 
 The Build 36 assembly includes approximately 2.6 Gb of sequence on chromosomes 1-19, X, Y, M 
 (mitochondrial DNA) and Un (unmapped clone contigs). For in-depth information about the process used
 to assemble this version, see the NCBI website.  On chromosome Y in this assembly, only the short 
 arm has reliable mapping data; therefore, most of the contigs on the Y chromosome are unplaced. 
 Note that the UCSC mm8 database contains only the reference strain C57BL/6J.</p> 
 <p> 
 The mm8 sequence and annotation data may be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm8/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm8/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm8 annotation 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm8/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm8/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm8 annotation 
 tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Deanna Church and the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for this assembly. We'd 
 also like to acknowledge the work of the UCSC mm8 team: Hiram Clawson, Fan Hsu, Kayla Smith, Ann 
 Zweig, Robert Kuhn, Brooke Rhead, Archana Thakkapallayil, and Donna Karolchik. For a complete list 
 of the individuals and organizations who participated in this assembly, see the 
 <a href="credits.html#mouse_credits">Credits</a> page.</p>
 
 <a name="041406"></a>
 <h2>Apr. 14, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; NCBI Build 36.1 human reference sequence available in browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest human genome reference sequence assembly (NCBI Build 36.1, March 2006) is now available 
 as database hg18 in the UCSC Genome Browser. This sequence, which was obtained from NCBI, was 
 produced by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium.</p> 
 <p> 
@@ -18811,32 +18811,32 @@
 </ul> 
 <p> 
 See the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/HGP/Chr6/MHC/" target="_blank">Wellcome Trust Sanger 
 Institute MHC Haplotype Project</a> web site for additional information on the chr6 alternate 
 haplotype assemblies.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Y chromosome in this assembly contains two pseudoautosomal regions (PARs) at chrY:1-2709520 and 
 chrY:57443438-57772954. These sequences were taken from the corresponding regions in the X 
 chromosome and are exact duplications of the X chromosome sequences.</p> 
 <p> 
 For further information on NCBI Build 36.1, see the NCBI 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/stats/BuildStats.cgi?taxid=9606&build=36&ver=1" 
 target="_blank">Build 36.1 release notes</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the data are available from the UCSC downloads server via 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18" target="_blank">ftp</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#human" target="_blank">http</a>. We recommend
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18" target="_blank">ftp</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#human" target="_blank">http</a>. We recommend
 that you use ftp or rsync for downloading large or multiple files.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank NCBI and the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium for furnishing the 
 data, and the entire UCSC Genome Browser staff for contributing to this release. Fan Hsu led the 
 UCSC engineering effort; QA was headed up by Ann Zweig.</p>
 
 <a name="030606"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 6, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; Purple Sea Urchin genome assembly available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Apr. 2005 release of the Purple Sea Urchin genome (<em>Strongylocentrotus purpuratus</em>) is 
 now available in the UCSC Genome Browser. This assembly, UCSC version strPur1, was produced by the 
 Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (BCM HGSC) and corresponds to their 
 Spur_0.5 whole genome shotgun assembly.</p> 
 <p> 
 This release was assembled from whole genome shotgun reads using the Atlas genome assembly system 
@@ -18847,32 +18847,32 @@
 from this assembly and will be placed in a subsequent version of the draft sequence.</p> 
 <p> 
 This is a draft sequence and may contain errors; therefore, users should exercise caution. Typical 
 errors in draft genome sequences include misassemblies of repeated sequences, collapses of repeated 
 regions, and unmerged overlaps (<em>e.g.</em> due to polymorphisms) creating artificial 
 duplications. However, base accuracy in contigs (contiguous blocks of sequence) is usually very high
 with most errors near the ends of contigs.</p> 
 <p> 
 More assembly details can be found in the 
 <a href="ftp://ftp.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/pub/data/Spurpuratus/fasta/Spur20050415/READMEApril2005.txt" 
 target="_blank">Spur_0.5 README file</a> and on the BCM HGSC 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/seaurchin/" target="_blank">Sea Urchin Genome 
 Project</a> web page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/strPur1">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#urchin">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/strPur1">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#urchin">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target="_blank">specific conditions for use</a>. The strPur1 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC 
 and collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html#urchin_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="022706"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 27, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; Upcoming Genome Browser seminars in Texas, Florida and Washington, 
 DC</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Bioinformatics Group announces four regional seminars and hands-on computer workshops on 
 the UCSC Genome Browser, presented by <a href="http://www.openhelix.com/" 
 target="_blank">OpenHelix:</a></p>
 <ul> 
   <li> 
   Houston, TX -- Tuesday, Mar. 14</li>
@@ -18906,32 +18906,32 @@
 The latest zebrafish assembly -- Zv5 (UCSC version danRer3, May 2005) -- is now available in the 
 UCSC Genome Browser and Blat server. The Zv5 assembly was produced by The Wellcome Trust Sanger 
 Institute in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, 
 Germany, and the Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology (Hubrecht Laboratory), Utrecht, 
 The Netherlands.</p> 
 <p> 
 This assembly consists of 1,630,306,866 bp in 16,214 scaffolds (N50 = 1,116,981 bp) with a sequence 
 coverage of approximately 6.5-7x. The assembly has been tied to the fingerprint contig map (data 
 freeze 15th February, 2005) and contains 699 Mb from 4,519 sequenced clones.</p> 
 <p>
 For more information about this assembly, see the Sanger Institute web page for the 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/" target="_blank"><em>Danio rerio</em> Sequencing 
 Project</a>.</p>
 <p> 
 The danRer3 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer3/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer3/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
 the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/use-policy.shtml" target="_blank">guidelines</a> for 
 using these data.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Developmental 
 Biology, Hubrecht Laboratory and the other institutions who contributed to the sequencing and 
 mapping effort of this release. Special thanks to the Zebrafish Genome Initiative at Children's 
 Hospital in Boston for their collaboration on this release. The UCSC zebrafish Genome Browser was 
 produced by Rachel Harte, Jennifer Jackson, Ann Zweig, Ali Sultan-Qurraie, and Donna Karolchik. The 
 initial set of annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#zebrafish_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <a name="020906"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 9, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Rhesus Macaque Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
@@ -18945,149 +18945,149 @@
 to have its genome sequenced. Overall, the rhesus genome shares approximately 92 to 95 precent of 
 its sequence with the human, compared with the chimp at 98 precent. Because of its genetic, 
 physiologic, and metabolic similarities to the human and chimp, the rhesus is an ideal reference 
 point for comparisons among the three primates.</p> 
 <p> 
 The groups in the Macaque Genome Sequencing Consortium produced preliminary assemblies of the 
 genome data using different and complementary approaches. The resulting data were combined into a 
 single, high-density 	&quot;melded&quot; assembly by a team at J. Craig Venter Institute. This 
 collaboration made use of published rhesus maps, the BAC fingerprint map from the Michael Smith 
 Genome Sciences Centre, and the human reference genome sequence. The v.1.0 assembly covers about 93 
 percent of the rhesus genome. For more information about the rheMac2 assembly, see the Baylor 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/rmacaque/" target="_blank">Rhesus Monkey Project</a> 
 web page.</p> 
 <p> 
 The rheMac2 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac2/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rhesus">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac2/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rhesus">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 specific <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target="_blank">conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to Baylor College of Medicine, the Macaque Genome Sequencing Consortium, and the other 
 institutions who contributed to the sequencing and mapping effort of the v.1.0 release. The UCSC 
 Rhesus Genome Browser was produced by Robert Baertsch, Kayla Smith, Ann Zweig, Robert Kuhn, and 
 Donna Karolchik. The initial set of rheMac2 annotation tracks was generated by the 
 <a href="../staff.html">UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group</a>. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#rhesus_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <a name="011806"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 18, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>D. sechellia</em> Browser released</h2>
 <p>
 The Oct. 2005 <em>D. sechellia</em> assembly (UCSC version droSec1) is now available in the UCSC 
 Genome Browser. This version was sequenced and assembled by the Broad Institute of MIT and 
 Harvard.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the droSec1 data and annotations can be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droSec1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droSec">Downloads</a> page. The initial set 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droSec1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droSec">Downloads</a> page. The initial set 
 of droSec1 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Broad Institute for providing the sequence and assembly of this genome. The UCSC 
 <em>D.  sechellia</em> Genome Browser was produced by Angie Hinrichs, Kayla Smith and 
 Donna Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#droSec_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list 
 of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="011106"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 11, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>D. yakuba</em> Browser update</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest <em>D. yakuba</em> assembly is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser. This version 
 &mdash;  Release 2.0, dated Nov. 2005 (UCSC version droYak2) &mdash; was sequenced and assembled by 
 the Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University (WUSTL) School of Medicine in St. Louis. </p> 
 <p> 
 The whole genome shotgun (WGS) assembly includes both raw shotgun data and data from two rounds of 
 automated, directed read selection, which has improved the sequence quality and narrowed or (in some
 instances) closed gaps.  For more assembly information and statistics, see the WUSTL Genome 
 Sequencing Center <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Drosophila%20yakuba&GROUP=6" 
 target="_blank"><em>Drosophila yakuba</em></a> web page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the droYak2 data and annotations can be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droYak2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droYak">Downloads</a> page. The initial set 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droYak2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droYak">Downloads</a> page. The initial set 
 of droYak2 annotation tracks was generated by UCSC.</p> 
 <p> 
 Thanks to the Genome Sequencing Center at WUSTL School of Medicine for providing the sequence and 
 assembly of this genome. The droYak2 Genome Browser was produced by Angie Hinrichs, Jennifer Jackson
 and Donna Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#droYak_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed 
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="010406"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 4, 2006 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>D. persimilis</em> Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has released a Genome Browser and Blat server for the 
 <em>D. persimilis</em> genome. The Oct. 2005 release (UCSC version droPer1) was sequenced and 
 assembled by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The <em>D. persimilis</em> assembly joins nine 
 other Drosophila species featured in the UCSC Genome Browser.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the droPer1 data and annotations can be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droPer1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droPer">Downloads</a> page. The droPer1 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droPer1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droPer">Downloads</a> page. The droPer1 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p>  
 <p>
 Thanks to the Broad Institute for providing the sequence and assembly of this genome. The UCSC 
 <em>D.  persimilis</em> Genome Browser was produced by Angie Hinrichs, Kayla Smith, Robert Kuhn, 
 Jennifer Jackson and Donna Karolchik. See the <a href="credits.html#droPer_credits">Credits</a> 
 page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <!---------------- 2005 archived news --------------->
 <a name="2005"></a>
 
 <a name="122005"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 20, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Dog Genome Browser update released</h2> 
 <p> 
 UCSC has updated the dog Genome Browser to include the May 2005 v2.0 assembly (UCSC version canFam2)
 sequenced and assembled by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Agencourt Bioscience. The 
 whole genome shotgun sequence is based on 7.6X coverage of the dog genome which includes more than 
 98% of the euchromatic genome.</p>  
 <p> 
 The dog genome, which contains approximately 2.5 billion base pairs, is similar in size to the 
 genomes of humans and other mammals. The boxer breed was selected for the initial sequencing effort,
 based on the lower variation rate in its genome relative to other breeds. In addition to the boxer, 
 samples from several other dog breeds were used to generate a set of single nucleotide polymorphisms
 (SNPs) to facilitate disease studies. The SNPs are available from the Broad Institute 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/ftp/pub/papers/dog_genome/snps_canfam2/" target="_blank">dog 
 SNP</a> web page. For more information about the dog draft assembly, see the Broad Institute 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/mammals/dog/" target="_blank">Dog Genome Sequencing Project</a> 
 web page.</p>  
 <p> 
 The dog sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog">downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog">downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="credits.html#dog_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Agencourt Bioscience, and the other 
 institutions who contributed to the sequencing, assembly, and mapping efforts. The canFam2 Genome 
 Browser team included Angie Hinrichs, Jennifer Jackson, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#dog_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>  
 
 <a name="121505"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 15, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Mouse assembly available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest mouse genome assembly from the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, NCBI Build 35 (UCSC 
 version mm7), is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser.</p>  
 <p> 
 The Build 35 assembly includes approximately 2.6 Gb of sequence, of which about 2.2 Gb is finished 
 sequence. Chromosomes 2, 4, 11 and X are finished in this build. To review in-depth statistics on 
 the assembly, see the NCBI 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/mouse/release_notes.html" 
 target="_blank">Build 35 Data</a> web page. Please note that the UCSC mm7 database contains only the
 reference strain C57BL/6J.</p> 
 <p> 
 The mm7 sequence and annotation data may be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm7/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm7/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm7 annotation 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm7/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm7/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm7 annotation 
 tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Deanna Church and the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for this assembly. We'd 
 also like to acknowledge the work of the UCSC mm7 team: Hiram Clawson, Fan Hsu, Ann Zweig, Kayla 
 Smith, Robert Kuhn and Donna Karolchik. For a complete list of the individuals and organizations who
 participated in this assembly, see the <a href="credits.html#mouse_credits">Credits</a> page.</p>
 
 <a name="1202b05"></a>
 <h2Dec. 2, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Announcing the VisiGene Image Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are pleased to announce the release of a new software tool in the Genome Browser collection, the 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgVisiGene">VisiGene Image Browser</a>. VisiGene offers the ability to view 
 <em>in situ</em> images, allowing examination of expression patterns at both the tissue and cellular
 levels. The browser serves as a virtual microscope that lets viewers retrieve images that meet 
 specific search criteria, then interactively zoom and scroll across the collection. The VisiGene 
@@ -19153,55 +19153,55 @@
 information, visit <a href="http://www.openhelix.com" target="_blank">www.openhelix.com</a> or call 
 1-888-861-5051.</p>
 
 <a name="101105"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 11, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>D. grimshawi</em> Browser now available</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has added the <em>Drosophila grimshawi</em> genome to the 
 collection of fly genomes available in the UCSC Genome Browser. This assembly (UCSC version droGri1,
 Aug. 2005) was produced by <a href ="http://www.agencourt.com/" target="_blank">Agencourt Bioscience
 Corporation</a> in Beverly, MA, USA, using the Arachne assembler.</p> 
 <p> 
 The droGri1 assembly contains 25,052 scaffolds ranging in size from 196 bases to 14,170,260
 bases.</p>  
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droGri1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droGri">Downloads</a> page. Please review the data use guidelines outlined in the README.txt files that accompany the downloads. The data use 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droGri1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droGri">Downloads</a> page. Please review the data use guidelines outlined in the README.txt files that accompany the downloads. The data use 
 restrictions are also available on the Genome Browser <a href="credits.html#droGri_use">Credits</a> 
 page.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Agencourt Bioscience Corporation for providing this assembly. The UCSC droGri1 
 browser was produced by Angie Hinrichs, Brian Raney, Jennifer Jackson, Kayla Smith and Donna 
 Karolchik. The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group generated the initial set of annotation tracks. See 
 the <a href="credits.html#droGri_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations 
 and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="100705"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 7, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; New <em>D. ananassae</em> Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has updated the <em>Drosophila ananassae</em> Genome Browser to
 the 1 August, 2005 assembly. This version (UCSC version droAna2) was produced by 
 <a href="http://www.agencourt.com/" target="_blank">Agencourt Bioscience Corporation</a> using the 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/wga/" target="_blank">Arachne assembler</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 The assembly contains 13,772 scaffolds ranging in size from 55 bases to 23,697,768 bases, with a 
 mean size of 16822.3 and median of 1537.</p> 
 <p> 
 Sequence and annotation data for the droAna2 assembly can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droAna2">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droAna">downloads</a> page. Please review the
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droAna2">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droAna">downloads</a> page. Please review the
 data use guidelines outlined in the README.txt files that accompany the downloads. The data use 
 restrictions are also available on the Genome Browser 
 <a href="credits.html#droAna_credits">credits</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Agencourt Bioscience Corporation for this assembly. The UCSC droAna2 browser was 
 produced by Angie Hinrichs, Brian Raney, Ann Zweig, Kayla Smith and Donna Karolchik. The UCSC Genome
 Bioinformatics Group generated the initial set of annotation tracks. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#droAna_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="100405"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 4, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Cow Browser available</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has released a Genome Browser and Blat server for the Mar. 
 2005 Btau_2.0 draft assembly of the cow genome. This assembly (UCSC version bosTau2) was provided by
@@ -19209,69 +19209,69 @@
 <p> 
 The Btau_2.0 release was assembled from whole genome shotgun (WGS) reads using the Atlas genome 
 assembly system. Several WGS libraries, with inserts of 2 - 4 kb and 4 - 6 kb, were used to produce 
 the data. Approximately 23 million reads were assembled, representing about 17.7 Gb of sequence and 
 6.2x coverage of the (clonable) bovine genome. Highly repeated sequences and BAC clones sequences 
 were omitted from this assembly; these will be placed in a subsequent version of the draft sequence.
 The assembly contains chromosomes 1-29, X, M, and Bin0, as well as 98058 scaffolds. For details 
 about changes UCSC made to the assembly format for display purposes, please see the bosTau2 Genome 
 Browser <a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?db=bosTau2">gateway page</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 More information on the Btau_2.0 assembly can be found on the Baylor 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/bovine/" target="_blank">Bovine Genome Project</a> web
 page.</p>  
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. Please refer to the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. Please refer to the 
 Baylor <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target="_blank">conditions of use</a> regarding these data. The bosTau2 annotation tracks were 
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Baylor College of Medicine for the bovine sequence and assembly. We'd also like 
 to acknowledge the members of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group who contributed to the Cow Genome
 Browser: Galt Barber, Brian Raney, Mark Diekhans, Jennifer Jackson and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#cow_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="092005"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 20, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Three Drosophila assemblies released in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has added three more Drosophila genomes to the collection of 
 fly genomes in the UCSC Genome Browser. The new genomes, which include the initial assembly of 
 <em>D.  erecta</em> (droEre1, Aug. 2005) and the updated assemblies of <em>D. virilis</em> (droVir2,
 Aug. 2005) and <em>D.  mojavensis</em> (droMoj2, Aug. 2005), were produced by 
 <a href ="http://www.agencourt.com/" target="_blank">Agencourt Bioscience Corporation</a> in 
 Beverly, MA, USA. All three genomes were assembled using the Arachne assembler.</p> 
 <p> 
 The droEre1 assembly contains 5,124 scaffolds ranging in size from 154 bases to 26,647,023 bases, 
 with a mean size of 29832.7 and median of 1740. The droVir2 assembly consists of 13,562 scaffolds 
 ranging in size from 57 bases to 25,269,527 bases, with a mean size of 15263.1 and median of 1249.  
 The droMoj2 assembly is comprised of 6,843 scaffolds ranging in size from 101 bases to 34,172,700 
 bases, with a mean size of 28389.6 and median of 1671.</p> 
 <p> Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available from the UCSC downloads
 server:</p> 
 <ul> 
   <li>
-  droEre1 -  <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droEre1">FTP</a>, 
-  <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droEre1">HTTP</a></li> 
+  droEre1 -  <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droEre1">FTP</a>, 
+  <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droEre1">HTTP</a></li> 
   <li>
-  droVir2 - <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droVir2">FTP</a>, 
-  <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droVir2">HTTP</a</li>
+  droVir2 - <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droVir2">FTP</a>, 
+  <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droVir2">HTTP</a</li>
   <li>
-  droMoj2 - <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droMoj2">FTP</a>, 
-  <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droMoj2">HTTP</a></li>
+  droMoj2 - <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droMoj2">FTP</a>, 
+  <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droMoj2">HTTP</a></li>
 </ul> 
 <p> 
 Please review the data use guidelines outlined in the README.txt files that accompany the downloads.
 The data use restrictions are also available on the Genome Browser 
 <a href="credits.html">credits</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Agencourt Bioscience Corporation for providing these assemblies. The UCSC 
 Drosophila browsers were produced by Angie Hinrichs, Brian Raney, Jennifer Jackson and Donna 
 Karolchik. The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group generated the initial set of annotation tracks. 
 See the <a href="credits.html">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="090905"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 9, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>C. intestinalis</em> v2.0 Genome Browser released</h2>
 <p> 
@@ -19280,32 +19280,32 @@
 <p> 
 This whole genome shotgun assembly was constructed with the JGI assembler, JAZZ, using paired-end 
 sequencing reads. Starting with a coverage of 11x, additional data -- including BAC and FISH markers
 -- were used to map scaffolds to chromosome arms. The size of this assembly, including unmapped 
 scaffolds, is 173 Mb, with 94 Mb of the sequence mapped to chromosome arms.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the ci2 assembly, see the JGI 
 <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/ciona4/ciona4.info.html" target="_blank"><em>C. intestinalis</em>
 project page</a>. Additional information and an analysis of the euchromatic regions of this genome 
 may be found in Dehal, P.  <em>et al.</em> 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12481130&query_hl=1" 
 target="_blank">The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis: insights into chordate and vertebrate 
 origins</a>. <em>Science</em> <B>298</B>(5601), 2157-67 (2002).<p> 
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ci2/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ciona" target="_blank">Downloads page</a>. 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ci2/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ciona" target="_blank">Downloads page</a>. 
 The ci2 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#ciona_credits">Credits page</a> for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the JGI and their collaborators for providing the v2.0 sequence and annotations. 
 The ci2 Genome Browser was produced by Brian Raney, Mark Diekhans, Ann Zweig, Kayla Smith, Robert 
 Kuhn and Donna Karolchik.</p>
 
 <a name="081105"></a>
 <h2Aug. 11, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Upcoming Genome Browser seminars - San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, 
 Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Bioinformatics Group announces six regional seminars and hands-on computer workshops on the
 UCSC Genome Browser, presented by <a href="http://www.openhelix.com/" 
 target="_blank">OpenHelix:</a></p> 
@@ -19341,32 +19341,32 @@
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has released a Genome Browser for the <em>Drosophila 
 simulans</em> draft genome sequence. The Release 1.0 assembly (UCSC version droSim1, Apr. 2005) was 
 produced by the <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/" target="_blank">Genome Sequencing Center</a> at 
 the Washington University in St.  Louis (WUSTL) School of Medicine. Release 1.0 represents a 
 composite of several different <em>D. simulans</em> lines: contigs from the w501 line comprise the 
 primary scaffolding, with contigs and unplaced reads from six other lines used to fill gaps in the 
 w501 assembly.</p> 
 <p> 
 The total size of this assembly, excluding the gapless 14,972 bp mitochondrial sequence, is 
 142,405,747 bp including gaps and 127,241,461 bp excluding gaps. For more information about the 
 <em>D. simulans</em> assembly and statistics, see the WUSTL Genome Sequencing Center 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Drosophila%20simulans%20White%20501" 
 target="_blank"><em>Drosophila simulans</em></a> web page.</p> 
 <p>
 Downloads of the droSim1 data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droSim1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droSim" target="_blank">Downloads</a> page. 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droSim1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droSim" target="_blank">Downloads</a> page. 
 The droSim1 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p>
 Thanks to the Genome Sequencing Center, WUSTL School of Medicine for providing this assembly. We'd 
 also like to acknowledge the UCSC team who worked on this release: Angie Hinrichs, Jennifer Jackson,
 Ali Sultan-Qurraie, Brian Raney and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="credits.html#droSim_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the organizations and 
 individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="053105"></a>
 <h2>May 31, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; June Genome Browser seminars in San Diego, CA and Salt Lake
 City, UT</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Bioinformatics Group announces two seminars and hands-on workshops on the UCSC Genome 
 Browser, presented by <a href="http://www.openhelix.com/" target="_blank">OpenHelix</a>, a 
 bioinformatics training, software testing and consulting company.</p> 
@@ -19399,86 +19399,86 @@
 World monkey, which is a primate model organism, is important for the study of human biology and 
 disease due to its genetic, physiologic and metabolic similarities to humans.</p> 
 <p> 
 Mmul_0.1 is a preliminary assembly using whole genome shotgun (WGS) reads from small and medium 
 insert clones. Approximately 14.6 million reads were used in the assembly, representing about 
 12.6 Gb of sequence and about 4.6x coverage of the (clonable) genome. The total length of all 
 contigs is approximately 2.7 Gb, or 2.8 Gb including gaps between contigs. Highly-repeated sequences
 and sequences from BAC clones were omitted from this assembly and will be placed in a subsequent 
 version of the draft sequence.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the rheMac1 assembly, see the Baylor 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/rmacaque/" target="_blank">Rhesus Monkey Project</a> 
 web page.</p> 
 <p> 
 The rheMac1 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac1/">FTP server</a> or the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rhesus">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rheMac1/">FTP server</a> or the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#rhesus">Downloads</a> page. These data have 
 specific <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target="_blank">conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to Baylor College of Medicine, the Rhesus Monkey Genome Sequencing Consortium, and the 
 other institutions who contributed to the sequencing and mapping effort of the Mmul_0.1 release. The
 UCSC Rhesus Genome Browser was produced by Robert Baertsch, Galt Barber, and Donna Karolchik. The 
 initial set of rheMac1 annotation tracks was generated by the <a href="../staff.html">UCSC Genome 
 Bioinformatics Group</a>. See the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#rhesus_credits">credits</a> 
 page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this
 browser.</p>
 
 <a name="050405"></a>
 <h2>May 5, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Mouse assembly available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest mouse genome assembly from the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, NCBI Build 34 (UCSC 
 version mm6), is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser. In conjunction with this release, we have
 archived mouse assemblies mm3 and mm4. All archived assemblies are available for download via our 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse" target="_blank">downloads 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse" target="_blank">downloads 
 server</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Build 34 assembly has an assembled length of approximately 2.6 Gb, of which about 1.9 Gb is 
 finished sequence. Chromosomes 2, 4, 11 and X are finished in this build. To review in-depth 
 statistics on the assembly, see the NCBI 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/mouse/release_notes.html"
 target="_blank">Build 34 Data</a> web page. NOTE: In the Genome Browser mm6 assembly, chrY_random 
 erroneously contains a region duplicated from chrY. For more information about this issue, see the 
 Genome Browser <a href="../FAQ/FAQdownloads.html#download30">FAQ</a>. Please also note that the 
 UCSC mm6 database contains only the reference strain C57BL/6J.</p> 
 <p> 
 The mm6 sequence and annotation data may be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm6/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm6/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm6 annotation 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm6/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm6/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm6 annotation 
 tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 Mirror sites, please note: due to the size of the comparative genomics annotations in this assembly,
 the data set requires an unusually large amount of disk space. If you regularly download updates of 
 the mouse data to your site, you may want to examine your available disk space before adding the 
 annotation database from this assembly and/or reschedule your download for a period of low activity 
 on your server. The size of the mm6 annotation database directory 
 ($WEBROOT/goldenPath/mm6/database/) is approximately 93 GB. Including the related net and chains, 
 the total size is 124 GB.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Deanna Church and the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for this assembly. We'd 
 also like to acknowledge the work of the UCSC mm6 team: Hiram Clawson, Fan Hsu, Jennifer Jackson, 
 Robert Kuhn, Ali Sultan-Qurraie, Heather Trumbower and Donna Karolchik. For a complete list of the 
 individuals and organizations who participated in this assembly, see the 
 <a href="credits.html#mouse_credits">Credits</a> page.</p>
 
 <a name="050205"></a>
 <h2>May 2, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Archiving mm3 and mm4 assemblies</h2> 
 <p> 
 To make room for the NCBI Build 34 mouse assembly (mm6, Mar. 2005), we are archiving the mm3 and 
 mm4 mouse assemblies. These assemblies will remain available for download on our 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse">downloads server</a>, although blat 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse">downloads server</a>, although blat 
 will no longer be supported. We plan to release the mm6 assembly in the next day or so.</p>
 
 <a name="032405"></a>
 <h2>Mar. 24, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser tutorial at Experimental Biology 2005 on Apr. 5</h2> 
 <p> 
 OpenHelix will be presenting a one-hour introductory seminar on the UCSC Genome Browser at the 
 Experimental Biology 2005 meeting on 5 April, 5:00-6:00. The tutorial will cover the topics needed 
 to effectively use the Browser, including basic functionality, searching and BLAT use, Table Browser
 use, creating and using Custom Tracks, and an introduction to the Gene Sorter.</p> 
 <p> 
 The free session will be conducted at the San Diego Convention Center, Room 12. For further 
 information, visit the <a href="http://www.openhelix.com" target="_blank">OpenHelix website</a> or 
 call 1-888-861-5051.</p> 
 <p> 
 OpenHelix will also be presenting brief introductory overviews of the UCSC Genome Browser in its 
@@ -19578,63 +19578,63 @@
 <a name="022305"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 23, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Honeybee Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group has released a Genome Browser for a second honeybee assembly, 
 Amel_2.0 (UCSC version apiMel2), produced by the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing 
 Center.</p> 
 <p> 
 The assembly -- which is approximately 229 Mb in size including contig gaps -- was sequenced using 
 a combined whole genome shotgun (WGS) and BAC clone approach. Overall sequence coverage is estimated
 at 7.5x. In this assembly, scaffolds have been arranged into 17 linkage groups that are somewhat 
 equivalent to chromosomes. For more information about the assembly, see the Baylor 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/honeybee/" target="_blank">honeybee project</a> 
 website.</p>  
 <p> 
 The apiMel2 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/apiMel2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#apiMel">downloads</a> page. Please see the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/apiMel2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#apiMel">downloads</a> page. Please see the 
 Baylor <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target="_blank">conditions of use</a> page for guidelines regarding the use of these data.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to Baylor College of Medicine and the other institutions who contributed to the 
 sequencing and mapping effort of the Amel_v2.0 release. The UCSC <em>A. mellifera</em> Genome 
 Browser was produced by Andy Pohl, Angie Hinrichs, Jennifer Jackson, and Donna Karolchik. The 
 initial set of apiMel2 annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group. See 
 the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#apiMel_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <a name="021705"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 17, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Cow Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has released a Genome Browser and Blat server for the Sep. 2004
 Btau_1.0 draft assembly of the cow genome. This assembly (UCSC version bosTau1) was provided by 
 Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, TX.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Btau_1.0 release was assembled from whole genome shotgun (WGS) reads using the Atlas genome 
 assembly system. Several WGS libraries, with inserts of 2 - 4 kb and 4 - 6 kb, were used to produce 
 the data. Approximately 15 million reads were assembled, representing about 9 Gb of sequence and 3x 
 coverage of the (clonable) bovine genome. Highly repeated sequences and BAC clones sequences were 
 omitted from this assembly; these will be placed in a subsequent version of the draft sequence. The 
 assembly contains approximately 450,000 scaffolds.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information on the Btau_1.0 assembly, see the Baylor 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/bovine/" target="_blank">Bovine Genome Project</a> web
 page.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. Please refer to the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/bosTau1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cow">Downloads</a> page. Please refer to the 
 Baylor <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target"_blank">conditions of use</a> regarding these data. The bosTau1 annotation tracks were 
 generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Baylor College of Medicine for the bovine sequence and assembly. We'd also like 
 to acknowledge the members of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group who contributed to the Cow Genome
 Browser: Heather Trumbower, Jim Kent, Hiram Clawson, Angie Hinrichs, Brian Raney, Mark Diekhans, 
 Robert Kuhn, Ali Sultan-Qurraie, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#cow_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="021505"></a>
 <h2>Feb. 15, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; UniProt (Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL) display changes</h2>
 <p> 
 We have made several adjustments to the Genome Browser databases to accommodate recent changes to 
@@ -19660,56 +19660,56 @@
 <p> 
 The Release 4 euchromatic sequence, 118.4 Mb in size, contains six euchromatic chromosome arms with 
 a total of 23 sequence gaps. The assembly was validated in collaboration with the Genome Sciences 
 Centre at the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver, Canada, using fingerprint analysis of a 
 tiling path of BACs spanning the genome.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Release 3.2 heterochromatic sequence is based on 20.7 Mb of Release 3 whole genome shotgun 
 scaffolds from Celera that could not be assembled into the euchromatin arms, as well as a few 
 BDGP-sequenced scaffolds. The scaffolds have been assigned to chromosomes where possible.</p> 
 <p>     
 For more information on this assembly, see the release notes for the 
 <a href="http://www.fruitfly.org/annot/release4.html" target="_blank">Release 4 euchromatic 
 sequence</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 Downloads of the dm2 data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm2/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fruitfly">Downloads</a> page. The dm2 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm2/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#fruitfly">Downloads</a> page. The dm2 
 annotation tracks were provided by FlyBase or generated by UCSC.</p> 
 <p> 
 Thanks to BDGP, DHGP, and the Flybase Consortium for providing the sequence, assembly, gene 
 annotations and analysis of this genome. The UCSC Genome Browser team is Angie Hinrichs, Brian 
 Raney, Galt Barber, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#dm_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="011805"></a>
 <h2>Jan. 18, 2005 &nbsp;&nbsp; Opossum Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The opossum (<em>Monodelphis domestica</em>) is the latest vertebrate addition to the UCSC Genome 
 Browser genome collection. The Oct. 2004 preliminary assembly -- UCSC version monDom1 -- was 
 sequenced and assembled by <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/seq/" target="_blank">The Broad 
 Institute</a>, Cambridge, MA, USA.</p>  
 <p> 
 This preliminary draft was assembled from 33,507,069 placed reads, and consists of 109,065 contigs 
 containing a total of 3,492,108,230 bases.  There are 3,563,247,205 total bases in the 19,348 
 scaffolds in the assembly, with 71,138,975 bases in the gaps between contigs within the scaffolds. 
 The scaffolds range in size from 1,000 bases to 22,286,839 bases.</p> 
 <p> 
 The monDom1 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/monDom1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#opossum">downloads</a> page. Please review 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/monDom1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#opossum">downloads</a> page. Please review 
 the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#opossum_use" target="_blank">guidelines</a> for using these 
 data.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to The Broad Institute for providing these data. The UCSC opossum Genome Browser was 
 produced by Hiram Clawson, Galt Barber, Ali Sultan-Qurraie, Brian Raney and Donna Karolchik. The 
 initial set of annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#opossum_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <!---------------- 2004 archived news --------------->
 <a name="2004"></a>
 
 <a name="122304"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 23, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated Zebrafish assembly (Zv4) now available</h2> 
 <p> 
@@ -19727,32 +19727,32 @@
 this assembly were identical to those used for the Zv3 assembly, but the FPC data and its 
 integration with the WGS data has been considerably improved.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Sanger Institute notes that there is high level of misassembly present in this release due to 
 the large amount of polymorphism in the DNA source. Highly variable regions within the genome posed 
 assembly difficulties, most likely because the sequences originated from different haplotypes. For 
 more information about this assembly, see the Sanger Institute web page for the 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/" target="_blank"><em>Danio rerio</em> Sequencing 
 Project</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 In addition to the assembly improvements noted above, a new zebrafish repeat library was used to 
 mask repeats in the danRer2 Genome Browser, resulting in a cleaner set of alignments containing 
 considerably less &quot;noise&quot;.</p>  
 <p> 
 The danRer2 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish">downloads</a> page. Please review 
 the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/use-policy.shtml" target="_blank">guidelines</a> for 
 using these data.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Developmental 
 Biology, Hubrecht Laboratory and the other institutions who contributed to the sequencing and 
 mapping effort of this release. Special thanks to the Zebrafish Genome Initiative at Children's 
 Hospital in Boston for their collaboration on this release. The UCSC zebrafish Genome Browser was 
 produced by Rachel Harte, Mark Diekhans, Heather Trumbower, Jennifer Jackson, and Donna Karolchik. 
 The initial set of annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#zebrafish_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this browser.</p>
 
 <a name="122204"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 22, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp;  UCSC releases Honeybee Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
@@ -19760,32 +19760,32 @@
 assembly produced by the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center.</p> 
 <p> 
 The assembly -- which is approximately 213 Mb in size including contig gaps -- was sequenced using 
 a combined whole genome shotgun (WGS) and BAC clone approach. The BAC clone sequence was produced 
 following a pooled-array strategy. Overall sequence coverage is estimated at 6X. For more 
 information about this assembly, see the Baylor 
 <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/honeybee/" target="_blank">honeybee project</a> 
 website.</p> 
 <p> 
 The honeybee genome is of interest to the agricultural community, in addition to its role as a model
 organism in the study of several human health issues, including immunity, allergic reaction, 
 antibiotic resistance, development, mental health, longevity, and diseases of the X chromosome. The 
 honeybee is also interesting for its social and behavioral traits.</p> 
 <p> 
 The apiMel1 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/apiMel1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#apiMel">downloads</a> page. Please see the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/apiMel1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#apiMel">downloads</a> page. Please see the 
 Baylor <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html" 
 target="_blank">conditions of use</a> page for guidelines regarding the use of these data.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to Baylor, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), and the other 
 institutions who contributed to the sequencing and mapping effort of the Amel_1.2 release. The UCSC 
 <em>A. mellifera</em> Genome Browser was produced by Angie Hinrichs, Brian Raney, Robert Kuhn, and 
 Donna Karolchik. The initial set of apiMel1 annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome 
 Bioinformatics Group. See the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#apiMel_credits">credits</a> page for
 a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this
 browser.</p>
 
 <a name="121504"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 15,2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Three new Drosophila assemblies in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has added three more Drosophila genomes to the UCSC Genome 
@@ -19801,32 +19801,32 @@
 details about an individual genome, refer to the Genome Browser 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgGateway?org=D.+ananassae">gateway</a> page associated with the assembly.</p> 
 <p> 
 In upcoming months, UCSC plans to provide several additions and enhancements to the Drosophila 
 browsers: </p>
 <ul> 
   <li> 
   additional Drosophila genomes, including <em>D. erecta</em> and <em>D. simulans</em></li> 
   updated versions of <em>D. melanogaster</em> and other genomes</li> 
   <li>
   multiple alignments of all fly assemblies from the 12-Drosophila project to 
   <em>D. melanogaster</em>
 </ul> 
 <p> 
 Sequence and annotation data for all the Drosophila assemblies can be downloaded from the UCSC 
-Genome Browser <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">downloads</a> page. Please review the data 
+Genome Browser <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">downloads</a> page. Please review the data 
 use guidelines outlined in the README.txt files that accompany the downloads. The data use 
 restrictions are also available on the Genome Browser <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html">credits</a>
 page.</p> 
 <p>
 We'd like to thank Agencourt Bioscience Corporation, TIGR, and other institutions who contributed
 to the sequencing and mapping effort for these assemblies. The UCSC Drosophila browsers were 
 produced by Angie Hinrichs, Brian Raney, Heather Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Galt Barber, Jennifer 
 Jackson, Ali Sultan-Qurraie, and Donna Karolchik. The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group generated 
 the initial set of annotation tracks. See the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html">credits</a> page 
 for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p>
 
 <a name="120304"></a>
 <h2>Dec. 3, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; SNP track for Build 35 (hg17) assembly released</h2> 
 <p> 
 UCSC has released the much-awaited SNP annotation track for the Build 35 (hg17) Human Genome 
@@ -19842,32 +19842,32 @@
 <a name="111704"></a>
 <h2>Nov. 17, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>X. tropicalis</em> v.3.0 released in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The v.3.0 <em>Xenopus tropicalis</em> assembly is now available on the UCSC Genome Browser. This 
 whole genome shotgun assembly (xenTro1, Oct. 2004) was provided by the U.S. DOE Joint Genome 
 Institute (JGI).</p>
 <p> 
 Version 3.0 was constructed with the JGI assembler, Jazz, using paired end sequencing reads at a 
 coverage of 7.4X.  After trimming for vector and quality, 19.1 million reads assembled into 27,064 
 scaffolds totaling 1.63 Gbp. Roughly half the genome is contained in 392 scaffolds, each of which is
 at least 1.2 Mb in length. For more information about this assembly, see the JGI 
 <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Xentr3/Xentr3.home.html" target="_blank"><em>X. tropicalis</em> 
 website</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 The xenTro1 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xenTro">downloads</a> page. Please see the 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/xenTro1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#xenTro">downloads</a> page. Please see the 
 JGI <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Xentr3/Xentr3.download.html" target="_blank">data release 
 policy</a> for data use	guidelines.</p>
 <p> 
 Many thanks to JGI and the other institutions who contributed to the sequencing and mapping effort 
 of the v. 3.0 release. The UCSC <em>X.  tropicalis</em> Genome Browser was produced by Fan Hsu, Jim 
 Kent, Heather Trumbower, Hiram Clawson, Brian Raney, Galt Barber, Mark Diekhans, Angie Hinrichs, and
 Donna Karolchik. The initial set of xenTro1 annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome 
 Bioinformatics Group. See the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#xenTro_credits">credits</a> page for
 a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the release of this 
 browser.</p>
 
 <h2>Nov. 17,2004 &nbsp;&nbsp;  Genome Browser tutorial offered at ASCB meeting</h2> 
 <p> 
 OpenHelix will be presenting the tutorial &quot;Introduction to the UCSC Genome Browser&quot; at the
 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 5, 8:30 - 10:00 
@@ -19975,32 +19975,32 @@
 <h2>Sep. 10, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>T. nigroviridis</em> genome now available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Genoscope v7 <em>Tetraodon nigroviridis</em> genome assembly is now available in the UCSC Genome
 Browser and Blat server. This assembly, UCSC version tetNig1 dated Feb. 2004, is the result of a 
 collaboration between <a href="http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/" target="_blank">Genoscope</a> and the 
 <a href="http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/tetraodon/background.html" target="_blank">Broad 
 Institute</a> of MIT and Harvard.</p>  
 <p> 
 The v7 assembly was constructed using the whole genome shotgun (WGS) approach, resulting in a 
 sequence coverage of about 7.9X. The assembly contains 45,609 contigs and 25,773 scaffolds 
 generated by the Arachne program and covers more than 90% of the genome. Additional linking data 
 were used to build ultracontigs and to organize the assembly into chromosomes. Genoscope estimates 
 the size of the Tetraodon genome to be about 385 Mb.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the tetNig1 data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/tetNig1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tetraodon" target="_blank">Downloads</a> 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/tetNig1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#tetraodon" target="_blank">Downloads</a> 
 page.  These data have been freely provided by Genoscope before publication with 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#tetraodon_credits" target="_blank">specific conditions for 
 use</a>.  The initial set of annotation tracks were generated by Genoscope and the UCSC 
 Bioinformatics Group based on data provided Genoscope. Tetraodon gene predictions generated by 
 Genoscope using <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/GAZE/" target="_blank">GAZE</a> 
 will be available in the Genome Browser within a few weeks.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to Genoscope and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for this genome assembly. The 
 UCSC team who produced this browser are Rachel Harte, Robert Kuhn, Donna Karolchik, and the Genome 
 Browser sysadmin team. See the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#tetraodon_credits">Credits</a> page
 for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this
 release.</p> 
 
 <a name="090104"></a>
 <h2>Sep. 1,2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser released for <em>D. pseudoobscura</em> draft assembly</h2> 
@@ -20011,32 +20011,32 @@
 <p> 
 Freeze 1 is a whole genome shotgun assembly produced using Baylor HGSC's assembly engine, Atlas. 
 The assembly, which provides approximately 7x coverage of the euchromatic portion of the genome, 
 contains 759 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 size is 1,018,646 bp. The total scaffold size for this 
 assembly is 139.3 Mbp, with an average size of 184,465 bp. Due to an assembly error, four large 
 scaffolds &quot;jumped&quot; chromosomes. These have been split into &quot;A&quot; and
 &quot;B&quot; parts in the downloadable assembly files. See the gateway page for more 
 information.</p> 
 <p> 
 Baylor HGSC has provided a 
 <a href="ftp://ftp.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/pub/data/Dpseudoobscura/fasta/D_pseudo_freeze1_scaffold_to_chromosome_assignments_8_28_03.txt" 
 target="_blank">putative chromosome assignment</a> for the majority of larger scaffolds (> 90% of 
 unique sequence), based on conservation between the Muller elements.</p> 
 <p>     
 Downloads of the dp2 data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dp2/" target="_blank">FTP server</a>  or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dp">Downloads</a> page. The initial set of 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dp2/" target="_blank">FTP server</a>  or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dp">Downloads</a> page. The initial set of 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Baylor HGSC for providing the genome assembly data. The UCSC team who produced 
 this browser are Angie Hinrichs, Heather Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Donna Karolchik, and the Genome 
 Browser sysadmin team. See the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#dp_credits">Credits</a> page for a 
 detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="083004"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 30, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser seminars - Seattle and San Francisco</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Bioinformatics Group announces 2 seminars and hands-on workshops on the UCSC Genome 
 Browser, presented by <a href="http://www.openhelix.com/" target="_blank">OpenHelix</a>, a 
 bioinformatics training, software testing and consulting company.</p> 
 <p> 
 These introductory sessions are geared towards anyone with a basic knowledge of genomic and 
@@ -20066,109 +20066,109 @@
 Ensembl.</p>  
 <p> 
 The MOZ2 assembly is a 10x whole genome shotgun assembly. The assembled portion of the genome is 
 about 278 Mbp in length with a total of 8,987 unique scaffolds, the largest scaffold being 23.1 Mbp.
 Approximately 85% of the sequence has been assigned to chromosomal locations. Chromosome arms chr2L,
 chr2R, chr3L, chr3R, and chrX are represented by 13, 49, 42, 28, and 10 large scaffolds 
 respectively. No scaffolds have yet been assigned to the Y chromosome. The unassigned scaffolds, 
 concatenated together in arbitrary order, can be found in the artificial unknown 
 &quot;chromosome&quot; chrUn.</p>  
 <p>     
 For more information about the initial <em>A. gambaie</em> assembly, see Holt et al. (2002), 
 <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/298/5591/129" target="_blank">The Genome 
 Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae</a>, <em>Science</em> 2002 298:129-149.</p>  
 <p>     
 Downloads of the anoGam1 data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/anoGam1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#anoGam">Downloads</a> page. The anoGam1 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/anoGam1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#anoGam">Downloads</a> page. The anoGam1 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the International Anopheles Genome Project and Ensembl for providing the sequence of 
 this genome. The UCSC team who produced this browser are Angie Hinrichs, Galt Barber, Donna 
 Karolchik, and sysadmins Paul Tatarsky and Jorge Garcia. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#anoGam_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 
 <a name="072904"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 29, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Zebrafish Genome assembly Zv3 now available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Zv3 Zebrafish genome assembly (UCSC version danRer1) is now available on the UCSC Genome Browser
 and Blat server. This assembly was produced by The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK, in 
 collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, and the
 Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology (Hubrecht Laboratory), Utrecht, The
 Netherlands.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Zv3 assembly consists of 1,459,115,486 bp in 58,339 supercontigs, with a sequence coverage of 
 approximately 5.7X. This zebrafish assembly is the first to be tied to the FPC map: 1,083,447,588 
 bp (74%) of the sequence were mapped in this way. Please note that this is a preliminary assembly; 
 a high level of misassembly is present due to polymorphisms in the DNA source.</p>  
 <p> 
 For more information about this assembly, see the Sanger Institute's  
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/" target="_blank"><em>Danio rerio</em> Sequencing 
 Project</a> web page. UCSC plans to release the Zv4 version of the zebrafish assembly on the Genome 
 Browser in Fall '04.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the Zebrafish data and annotations can be obtained from the UCSC 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer1/" target="_blank">FTP site</a> or 
-<a href=http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish>Downloads page</a>. The danRer1 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/danRer1/" target="_blank">FTP site</a> or 
+<a href=http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#zebrafish>Downloads page</a>. The danRer1 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#zebrafish_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this release.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators for providing this 
 assembly. A special thanks to Yi Zhou, Anthony DiBiase and Leonard Zon from the Children's Hospital 
 in Boston, MA, USA for their collaboration on this release. The UCSC Zebrafish Genome Browser team 
 is Rachel Harte, Heather Trumbower, and Donna Karolchik.</p>
 
 <a name="072304b"></a>
 <h2>Jul. 23, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Latest Human Genome reference sequence now in Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest human genome reference sequence (NCBI Build 35, May 2004) is now available as database 
 hg17 in the UCSC Genome Browser and Blat server. This sequence was obtained from NCBI and was 
 produced by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the data are available via FTP at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg17">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg17</a> 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg17">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg17</a> 
 or through the Downloads link on this page. We recommend that you use FTP rather than HTML for the 
 download of large or multiple files.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank NCBI and the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium for furnishing the 
 data, and the UCSC team members who contributed to this release: Hiram Clawson, Terry Furey, Heather
 Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Donna Karolchik, Kate Rosenbloom, Angie Hinrichs, Rachel Harte, Jim Kent and
 our sysadmin team Patrick Gavin, Jorge Garcia, and Paul Tatarsky.</p>
 
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 <h2>Jul. 23, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>D. yakuba</em> added to Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has released a Genome Browser and Blat server on a second 
 species of fruitfly, <em>D. yakuba</em>. The April 2004 Release 1.0 of this genome (UCSC version 
 droYak1) was sequenced and assembled by the Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University (WUSTL) 
 School of Medicine in St. Louis.</p>  
 <p> 
 <em>D. yakuba</em> is closely related to the model organism, <em>D. melanogaster</em>, with which it
 shared a common ancestor approximately 10 million years ago. The <em>D. yakuba</em> genome is 
 largely alignable to the <em>D. melanogaster</em> genome, but differs sufficiently to offer an 
 interesting study of sequence divergence between the two species. <em>D. yakuba</em> occupies a 
 critical intermediate position among several Drosophila species that will facilitate evolutionary 
 studies among the fruitflies. For information about the <em>D. yakuba</em> assembly and statistics, 
 see the WUSTL Genome Sequencing Center 
 <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Drosophila%20yakuba&GROUP=6" 
 target="_blank"><em>Drosophila yakuba</em></a> web page.</p>  
 <p> 
 Downloads of the droYak1 data and annotations can be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droYak1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droYak">Downloads</a> page. The droYak1 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/droYak1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#droYak">Downloads</a> page. The droYak1 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p>
 Thanks to the Genome Sequencing Center at WUSTL School of Medicine for providing the sequence and 
 assembly of this genome. The UCSC <em>D. yakuba</em> Genome Browser was produced by Angie Hinrichs, 
 Michael Chalup, and Donna Karolchik. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#droYak_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of the 
 organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this release.</p>
 
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 <h2>Jul. 16, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser released for mouse assembly NCBI Build 33</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest mouse assembly -- Build 33 from NCBI (UCSC version mm5) -- is now available via the UCSC 
 Genome Browser and Blat server. This assembly includes approximately 2.6 gigabases of sequence. 
 Chromosome 11 is finished in Build 33; the Sanger Institute has provided a corresponding agp file. 
 The whole genome N50 for this assembly is 22.3 Mb, in comparison to 17.7 Mb for the previous build. 
@@ -20177,92 +20177,92 @@
 This assembly is a composite version in which phase 3 High Throughput Genome Sequence (HTGS) was 
 merged with the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium v3 Whole Genome Shotgun Assembly (MGSCv3). The 
 assembly was performed by NCBI using a &quot;combined&quot; tiling path that was created 
 automatically for the most part, but was manually curated in places. This facilitated the placement 
 of finished sequence in the context of the MGSCv3 assembly. Draft sequence was not included in this 
 build: the slight increase in coverage gained by using this would have been offset by the increase 
 in build errors.</p> 
 <p> 
 More information about Build 33 will be available soon in the NCBI 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/NCBIContigInfo.html" target="_blank">assembly 
 notes</a> and 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/stats/BuildStats.cgi?taxid=10090&build=33&ver=1" 
 target="_blank">Build 33 statistics</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 The mm5 sequence and annotation data may be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm5/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm5/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm5 annotation 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm5/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm5/">Downloads</a> web page. The mm5 annotation 
 tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Deanna Church, Richa Agrawala, and the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for 
 this assembly. We'd also like to acknowledge the work of the UCSC mm5 team: Fan Hsu, Hiram Clawson, 
 Angie Hinrichs, Heather Trumbower, Mark Diekhans, Donna Karolchik and our systems administrators 
 Jorge Garcia, Patrick Gavin and Paul Tatarsky.</p>
 
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 <h2>Jul. 15, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>C. intestinalis</em> v1.0 released in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The v1.0 <em>C. intestinalis</em> draft assembly from the US DOE Joint Genome Institute is now 
 available for study using the UCSC Genome Browser and Blat server (UCSC database ci1).</p> 
 <p> 
 The whole genome shotgun assembly was constructed with the JGI assembler (JAZZ) paired-end 
 sequencing reads at a coverage of 8.2X. The draft contains 116.7 million bp of nonrepetitive 
 sequence in 2,501 scaffolds greater than 3 kb. 60 Mbp of this has been assembled into 117 scaffolds 
 longer than 190 Kbp, and 85% of the assembly (104.1 Mbp) is found in 905 scaffolds longer than 20 
 kb. The assembly, gene modeling and analysis were performed at the JGI.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the ci1 assembly, see the JGI 
 <a href="http://genome.jgi-psf.org/ciona4/ciona4.info.html" target="_blank"><em>C. intestinalis</em>
 project page</a>. Additional information and an analysis of the euchromatic regions of this genome 
 may be found in Dehal et al., <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/298/5601/2157" 
 target="_blank">The Draft Genome of Ciona intestinalis: Insights into Chordate and Vertebrate 
 Origins</a>. Science.  2002 Dec 13;298(5601):2157-67.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ci1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ciona" target="_blank">Downloads page</a>. 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ci1/" target="_blank">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#ciona" target="_blank">Downloads page</a>. 
 The ci1 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the Credits page 
 for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the JGI and their collaborators for providing the v1.0 sequence and annotations. The 
 ci1 Genome Browser was produced by Brian Raney, Galt Barber, Heather Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Donna 
 Karolchik and the Genome Browser sysadmin team - Patrick Gavin, Jorge Garcia, and Paul Tatarsky. 
 We'd also like to thank Tom Pringle for his technical input and Mark Diekhans for his work on the 
 incremental updates for this release.</p>
 
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 <h2>Jul. 14, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser released for dog draft assembly v1.0</h2> 
 <p> 
 UCSC has released a Genome Browser and Blat server on the July 2004  v1.0 dog genome sequenced and 
 assembled by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Agencourt Bioscience. The whole genome 
 shotgun (WGS) sequence is based on 7.6X coverage of the dog genome, assuming a WGS assembly size of 
 2.4 Gb. The assembly has an N50 contig length of 123 kb and an N50 supercontig length of
 41.6 Mb.</p>  
 <p> 
 The dog genome, which contains approximately 2.5 billion base pairs, is similar in size to the 
 genomes of humans and other mammals. The boxer breed was selected for the initial sequencing effort,
 based on the lower variation rate in its genome relative to other breeds. In addition to the boxer, 
 samples from nine other dog breeds, four wolves and a coyote are being used to generate an initial 
 set of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to facilitate disease studies. The SNPs should be 
 available soon from <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/" target="_blank">dbSNP</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the dog draft assembly, see the 
 <a href="http://www.genome.gov/12511476" target="_blank">NHGRI press release</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The dog sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog">downloads</a> page. These data have 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#dog">downloads</a> page. These data have 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#dog_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 Many thanks to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, NHGRI, Agencourt Bioscience, Children's 
 Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, North Carolina 
 State University, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for their contributions to the 
 sequencing, assembly, and mapping efforts. The initial canFam1 annotation track set, generated by 
 the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group, will soon be supplemented by annotations from collaborators 
 worldwide. See the <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#dog_credits">credits</a> page for a detailed 
 list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this release.</p>
 
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 <h2>Jun. 24, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; ENCODE project featured in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to announce the release of UCSC Genome Browser features tailored to the ENCODE project 
 community, including an <a href="/ENCODE/">ENCODE-specific page</a> to highlight the ENCODE 
@@ -20306,55 +20306,55 @@
 What's in a name? In an effort to clarify the role of the UCSC Family Browser, we have changed its 
 name to the UCSC Gene Sorter. We think this name better describes this tool, which lets the user 
 collect information on groups of genes that may be related in many different ways. The Gene Sorter 
 provides a wealth of information on gene expression, protein homology (both within and across 
 species), GO terms, and Pfam domains, cross links to many other databases, and much more.</p> 
 <p> 
 If you haven't already tried this tool, we encourage you to give it a spin. You'll find it at 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgNear">http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgNear</a>, or click the
 &quot;Gene Sorter&quot; link on any Genome Browser menu bar.</p>
 
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 <h2>May 27, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browser downloads server</h2> 
 <p> 
 As a follow-up to last week's FTP site switch, we are changing the location of the UCSC Genome 
 Browser downloads site to 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/">http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/</a>. All downloadable 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/">http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/</a>. All downloadable 
 files currently located in http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath will be moved to the new server. 
 Please make a note of the new URL and update any references to it. Users accessing downloads through
-the Genome Browser <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads page</a> will 
+the Genome Browser <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads page</a> will 
 be redirected automatically to the new location.</p>
 
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 <h2>May 19, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; New Genome Browser FTP server</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have changed the URL for the UCSC Genome Browser ftp site to 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/</a>. This replaces the old 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/</a>. This replaces the old 
 URL of ftp://genome.ucsc.edu/. The old URL will be disabled within a few days. Please make a note of
 the new URL and update any references to it.</p>
 
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 <h2>May 11, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>C. elegans</em> WS120 added to Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 UCSC has released a Genome Browser and Blat server on an updated version of the <em>C. elegans</em> 
 genome. The March 2004 assembly -- UCSC version ce2 -- is based on sequence version WS120 deposited 
 into <a href="http://www.wormbase.org/species/c_elegans" target="_blank">WormBase</a> as of Mar. 1, 
 2004. This assembly has a finishing error rate of 1:10,000.</p> 
 <p> 
 The ce2 sequence and annotation data may be downloaded from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#c_elegans">Downloads</a> web page. The ce2 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#c_elegans">Downloads</a> web page. The ce2 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/" target="_blank">Genome Sequencing 
 Center</a> at Washington University in St. Louis and the 
 <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Sanger Institute</a> for their collaborative work
 in sequencing the <em>C. elegans</em> genome. Many thanks to the 
 <a href="http://www.wormbase.org/wiki/index.php/WormBase_Consortium" 
 target="_blank">WormBase consortium</a> for making the worm sequence publicly available. We'd also 
 like to acknowledge the UCSC team who contributed to this release: Rachel Harte (lead engineer), 
 Hiram Clawson (WABA and miRNA annotations), Mike Chalup (QA), Galt Barber (QA), Heather Trumbower 
 (QA), and Donna Karolchik (documentation).</p> 
 
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 <h2>Apr. 22, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Mouse Genome assembly added to Proteome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
@@ -20466,32 +20466,32 @@
 intermediate data point between mouse and fugu. Comparative genomics analyses between the chicken 
 and other sequenced organisms should yield valuable information on the evolution of gene order and 
 arrangement, thus improving our understanding of the structure and function of genes. /<p> 
 <p> 
 To facilitate comparative genomics studies, alignments of the chicken sequence to the human genome 
 will be available in the Genome Browser later this week. Downloads of the comparative data are 
 currently available through the Downloads page (see below).</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the release of the chicken genome assembly, see the NHGRI 
 <a href="http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/11510730" target="_blank">press release</a>. Additional background
 on the rationale behind the chicken genome sequencing effort can be found in the  
 <a href="http://www.genome.wustl.edu/ancillary/data/whitepapers/Gallus_gallus_WP.pdf"
 target="_blank">sequencing proposal</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the chicken sequence and annotations may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal2/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chicken">Downloads</a> page. These data 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal2/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chicken">Downloads</a> page. These data 
 have <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#chicken_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University School of Medicine in 
 St. Louis, Wageningen University, and the Chicken Mapping Consortium for providing these data. 
 The chicken browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the 
 <a href="/goldenPath/credits.html#chicken_credits">Credits</a> page for a detailed list of 
 acknowledgements. The UCSC Chicken Genome Browser was produced by Angie Hinrichs, Heather Trumbower,
 Rachel Harte, and Donna Karolchik.</p>
 
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 <h2>Feb. 23, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; Chimpanzee genome browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We are happy to announce the release of a Genome Browser and Blat server for the chimpanzee 
 (<em>Pan troglodytes</em>). The 13 Nov. 2003 Arachne assembly -- labeled Chimp Build 1 Version 1 
 (UCSC version panTro1) -- was produced by the Chimpanzee Genome Sequencing Consortium.</p> 
@@ -20503,32 +20503,32 @@
 (<em>Pan troglodytes verus</em>). 
 <a href="http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/Sequencing/SeqProposals/ChimpGenome2.pdf" 
 target="_blank">Background information</a> on the chimp genome sequencing project and the 
 <a href="http://www.genome.gov/11509418" target="_blank">initial news release</a> about the chimp 
 assembly can be found on the NHGRI website.</p>  
 <p> 
 Research has indicated that the human and chimp genomes probably differ by approximately one
 percent. Because of this close relationship between chimpanzees and humans, the assembly should 
 facilitate comparative analyses of the two genomes that have not been possible with other species 
 that have been sequenced to date.</p>  
 <p> 
 The initial release of the Chimp Browser provides several annotation tracks comparing the chimp and 
 human genomes.  More comparative annotations will be added in upcoming weeks.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the chimp sequence and annotations may be obtained from the Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panTro1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chimp">Downloads</a> page. The complete set 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/panTro1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#chimp">Downloads</a> page. The complete set 
 of sequence reads is available at the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces" 
 target="_blank">NCBI trace archive</a>. Blat searches on chrUn_random are not supported in the 
 initial release, but will be available soon.</p>  
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank NHGRI, the Broad Institute at MIT/Harvard, and Washington University at St. Louis
 School of Medicine for providing this sequence, and LaDeana Hillier, Washington University School of
 Medicine, and the Broad Institute for their work on the alignments. The chimpanzee browser 
 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide.</p> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC team who worked on this release consisted of Kate Rosenbloom, Jim Kent, Hiram Clawson, 
 Heather Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Donna Karolchik, and the Genome Browser sysadmin team.</p>
 
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 <h2>Feb. 12, 2004 &nbsp;&nbsp; New UCSC supported mirror site</h2> 
 <p> 
@@ -20581,122 +20581,122 @@
 This assembly (UCSC version sacCer1) is based on sequence dated 1 Oct. 2003 in the 
 <a href="http://www.yeastgenome.org/" target="_blank">Saccharomyces Genome Database</a> (SGD). The 
 sequence, open reading frame (ORF), and gene annotations were downloaded from the site 
 <a href="ftp://genome-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/yeast/data_download" 
 target="_blank">ftp://genome-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/yeast/data_download</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 The S288C strain was used in this sequencing project. Reference information for each chromosome may 
 be found in the SGD <a href="http://www.yeastgenome.org/chromosomes.shtml" 
 target="_blank">Systematic Sequencing Table</a>. For more information about the yeast genetic and 
 physical maps, see the paper Cherry JM et al. 
 <a href="http://db.yeastgenome.org/cgi-bin/SGD/reference/reference.pl?refNo=22828" 
 target="_blank">Genetic and physical maps of Saccharomyces cerevisiae</a>. <em>Nature</em> 1997 
 387(6632 Suppl):67-73.</p>  
 <p> 
 Downloads of the yeast data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sacCer1/">FTP server</a> or 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads#yeast">Downloads</a> page.</p> 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/sacCer1/">FTP server</a> or 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads#yeast">Downloads</a> page.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank Stanford University, the SGD, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), 
 Washington University in St. Louis, and the Broad Institute at MIT/Harvard for providing the data 
 and annotations for this assembly. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC team who worked on this 
 release: Jim Kent, Heather Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Donna Karolchik, and our sysadmin team.</p>
 
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 <a name="2003"></a>
 
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 <h2>Dec. 10, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; UCSC Releases alignments of the chimp draft assembly to human genome</h2> 
 <p> 
 UCSC has released alignments of the Nov. 2003 chimpanzee draft assembly to the Jul. 2003 human 
 assembly in the Genome Browser. These alignments may be viewed on the 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?org=Human&db=hg16&position=chr4:56214201-56291736">Human Jul. 2003</a> 
 assembly. This release coincides with today's <a href="http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/11509418" 
 target="_blank">announcement</a> by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the 
 first draft assembly of the chimpanzee genome.</p> 
 <p> 
 The set of human/chimpanzee alignments consists of a reciprocal best-in-genome net track and a 
 chimp chain track. These alignments were generated using the blastz program developed at 
 Pennsylvania State University and the programs blat, axtChain, chainNet, and netSyntenic developed 
 at UCSC by Jim Kent. Research scientists should find these tracks useful for locating orthologous 
 regions and studying genome rearrangement in the two species.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information about the alignment tracks, refer to the track description pages. The tables 
 may be downloaded from the Genome Browser FTP server's 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg16/database/">hg16 database directory</a>. The 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg16/database/">hg16 database directory</a>. The 
 chimp sequence and alignment data are downloadable from the 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg16/vsPt0/">hg16 human/chimp alignments 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg16/vsPt0/">hg16 human/chimp alignments 
 directory</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 The chimp sequence used in these alignments was obtained from the Nov. 13, 2003 Arachne assembly. 
 We'd like to thank NHGRI, the Eli & Edythe L. Broad Institute at MIT/Harvard, and Washington 
 University School of Medicine for providing this sequence, and LaDeana Hillier, Washington 
 University School of Medicine, and the Whitehead Institute for their work on the alignments. We'd 
 also like to acknowledge the members of the UCSC team who contributed to the release of these 
 alignments in the Genome Browser: Jim Kent, Kate Rosenbloom, Heather Trumbower, and Donna 
 Karolchik.</p>
 
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 <h2>Nov. 24, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser released for mouse assembly NCBI Build 32</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have released a Genome Browser and Blat server for the latest mouse genome assembly, NCBI Build 
 32 (UCSC v. mm4).  Build 32 is a composite assembly in which chromosomes were assembled by two 
 slightly different algorithms depending on the available mapping data. Chromosomes 2, 4, 5, 7, 11, 
 15, 18, 19, X, and Y were assembled using a clone-based tiling path file (TPF) provided by the Mouse
 Genome Sequencing Consortium (MGSC), with whole genome shotgun sequence used to fill gaps when 
 necessary. The remaining chromosomes were assembled using the MGSCv3 whole genome shotgun assembly 
 as the TPF and merging High Throughput Genomic Sequence (HTGS) as needed. The UCSC mm4 assembly 
 contains only the reference strain C57BL/6J.</p> 
 <p> 
 Build 32 includes 2.6 gigabases of sequence, 1.2 Gb of which is finished. We estimate that 90-96 
 percent of the mouse genome is present in the assembly. For more information about this version, 
 see the NCBI <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/NCBIContigInfo.html" 
 target="_blank">assembly notes</a> and 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/stats/BuildStats.cgi?taxid=10090&build=32&ver=1" 
 target="_blank">Build 32 statistics</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 The mm4 sequence and annotation data may be downloaded from the UCSC Genome Browser 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse">downloads server</a>.</p>  
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#mouse">downloads server</a>.</p>  
 <p>
 We'd like to thank the Deanna Church, Richa Agrawala, and the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for
 this assembly. We'd also like to acknowledge the work of the UCSC mm4 team: Hiram Clawson (lead), 
 Terry Furey, Kate Rosenbloom, Heather Trumbower, Bob Kuhn and Donna Karolchik, and our systems 
 administrators Patrick Gavin, Jorge Garcia and Paul Tatarsky.</p>
 
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 <h2>Oct. 31, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; <em>D. melanogaster</em> assembly added to Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have added the <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> (fruitfly) assembly to the growing collection of 
 genomes available in the UCSC Genome Browser and Blat servers. Release 3.1 (Jan. 2003) of the 
 <em>Drosophila</em> annotated genome sequence was provided by the 
 <a href="http://www.fruitfly.org/" target="_blank">Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project</a> (BDGP). 
 The 116.8 Mb euchromatic sequence - which is virtually gap-free and of high accuracy - contains six 
 euchromatic chromosome arms represented by 13 scaffolds with a total of 37 sequence gaps. The 
 sequence quality of this release has an estimated error rate of less than one in 100,000 base pairs 
 in the unique portion of the sequence, and less than one in 10,000 base pairs in the repetitive 
 portion. The Release 3.1 sequence was reannotated using the 
 <a href="http://www.fruitfly.org/annot/apollo/" target="_blank">Apollo Genome Annotation and 
 Curation Tool</a>. We also provide data comparing the genome of <em>D. melanogaster</em> with that 
 of <em>D. pseudoobscura</em>.</p> 
 <p> 
 The fruitfly, one of the first organisms to be used in systematic scientific investigations, has 
 been the subject of intensive study in genetics for nearly a century and remains a major model 
 organism in biomedical research, population biology and evolution. We are pleased to add the 
 fruitfly to the roster of assemblies available on our site.</p> 
 <p>
 Downloads of the <em>Drosophila</em> data and annotations may be obtained from the UCSC Genome 
-Browser <a href ="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm1">ftp site</a>.</p> 
+Browser <a href ="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/dm1">ftp site</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank BDGP and the <a href = "http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu">Flybase</a> Consortium 
 (<a href="http://www.harvard.edu/" target="_blank">Harvard University</a>, 
 <a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">University of Cambridge</a>, 
 <a href="http://www.iub.edu/" target="_blank">Indiana University</a>, the 
 <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank">University of California, Berkeley</a> and the 
 <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/index.html" target="_blank">European Bioinformatics Institute</a> 
 (EBI)) for providing the sequence, assembly, and analysis of this genome. We'd also like to 
 acknowledge the members of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group who contributed to this release: 
 Angie Hinrichs (lead engineer), Heather Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Donna Karolchik, and Jim Kent and 
 the system administrators Jorge Garcia, Patrick Gavin and Paul Tatarsky.</p>
 
 <a name="101703b"></a>
 <h2>Oct. 17, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; mRNA, RefSeq and EST data now updated incrementally for several 
 assemblies</h2> 
@@ -20785,31 +20785,31 @@
 This assembly was constructed with the JGI assembler, JAZZ, from paired end sequencing reads 
 produced by JGI and IMCB, at JGI, Myriad Genetics, and Celera Genomics, resulting in a sequence 
 coverage of 5.7X. All reads are plasmid, cosmid, or BAC end sequences, with the predominant coverage
 derived from 2 Kb insert plasmids. This assembly contains 20,379 scaffolds totaling 319 million 
 base pairs. The largest 679 scaffolds total 160 million base pairs. The Fugu genome was annotated 
 using the Ensembl system by the Fugu informatics group at IMCB.</p> 
 <p>
 The Fugu, which was one of the first vertebrate genomes to be draft-sequenced after human, serves 
 an important role in the exploration of the human genome. In contrast to other vertebrates that have
 been sequenced, the intergenic and intron regions of the Fugu are highly compressed and uncluttered 
 with repetitive sequence, resulting in a genome that is unusually compact in size. The Fugu genome 
 has proved useful in gene discovery and the identification and characterization of gene regulatory 
 elements in other genomes.</p> 
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the Fugu sequence and annotation data are available via FTP at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/fr1">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/fr1</a> 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/fr1">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/fr1</a> 
 or through the Downloads link on the Genome Browser home page. We recommend that FTP be used rather 
 than HTML for the download of large or multiple files.</p> 
 <p>
 We'd like to thank JGI and the other members of the International Fugu Genome Consortium, including 
 IMCB, the UK Human Genome Mapping Project (Hinxton), the Molecular Sciences Institute (Berkeley) and
 the Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle), for providing the sequence, assembly, and analysis of 
 this genome. We'd also like to acknowledge the members of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group who 
 contributed to this release: Kate Rosenbloom (lead engineer), Heather Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Donna 
 Karolchik, and Jim Kent.</p>
 
 <a name="081303"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 13, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program regions released in
 Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group has released a browser and blat server on the first of more 
@@ -20840,89 +20840,89 @@
 <p> 
 UCSC built a customized version of the browser to display the target region for this study, allowing
 scientists to interactively explore the data and predictions generated by this project, contribute 
 data of their own, and track the project as data from additional species are generated. In addition 
 to the browser, the UCSC team also contributed to the analytical portion of the study. Mathieu 
 Blanchette identified the regions that are most highly conserved among species. Adam Siepel 
 performed the phylogenetic analysis of rates of substitution. The UCSC team worked with Arian Smit 
 to obtain definitive evidence that rodents branched off from the common ancestor later than 
 carnivores and artiodactyls.</p> 
 <p> 
 For more information on the NISC study, see the <em>Science Daily</em> 
 <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/08/030814072241.htm" 
 target="_blank">press release</a>. Flat files of the assembled sequence and annotations may be 
 obtained from <a href="http://www.nisc.nih.gov/data/" 
 target="_blank">http://www.nisc.nih.gov/data/</a> or via the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> link on the Genome Browser 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> link on the Genome Browser 
 home page.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the NISC Comparative Sequencing Program team for providing the data and 
 comparative analysis for this Genome Browser release. Special thanks go to Elliott Margulies at 
 NHGRI for serving as the main liaison between NHGRI and UCSC, and for contributing several 
 annotation tracks to the browser. We'd also like to acknowledge the efforts of the many faculty, 
 grad students, and staff members of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group who contributed to the 
 research effort and browser development for this project.</p>
 
 <a name="080803"></a>
 <h2>Aug. 8, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; New human genome reference sequence now available in Genome
 Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The latest human genome reference sequence (NCBI Build 34, Jul. 2003) is now available as database 
 hg16 in the UCSC Genome Browser and blat server.</p> 
 <p> 
 There are 2,843,433,602 finished sequenced bases in the ordered and oriented portion of the 
 assembly, which is an increase of 0.4 percent, or approximately 11 Mb, over the Build 33 assembly. 
 Of particular note in this release is the addition of the pseudoautosomal regions of the Y 
 chromosome. This sequence was taken from the corresponding regions in the X chromosome and is an 
 exact duplication of that sequence.</p>  
 <p> 
 Some sequence joins between adjacent clones in this assembly could not be computationally validated 
 because the clones originated from different haplotypes and contained polymorphisms in the 
 overlapping sequence, or the overlap was too small to be to be reliable.  In these instances, the 
 sequencing center responsible for the particular chromosome has provided data to support the join 
 in the form of an electronic certificate. The Build 34 certificates may be reviewed 
 <a href="certificates/certificate_hg16.html">here</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the data are available via FTP at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg16">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg16</a> 
-or through the <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> link. We 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg16">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg16</a> 
+or through the <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> link. We 
 recommend that FTP be used rather than HTML for the download of large or multiple files.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank NCBI and the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium for furnishing the 
 data, and the UCSC team members who contributed to this release: Terry Furey, Hiram Clawson, 
 Heather Trumbower, Mark Diekhans, Robert Baertsch, Donna Karolchik, Jim Kent and our sysadmin team 
 Patrick Gavin, Jorge Garcia, and Paul Tatarsky.</p>
 
 <h2>Jul. 14, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; Rat genome v.3.1 added to Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group has released a browser and BLAT server on the v. 3.1 rat genome
 assembly from the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium. This assembly (UCSC version rn3, June 2003) was 
 produced by the Atlas group at <a href="http://hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/rat/"
 target="_blank">Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center</a> (HGSC). This assembly is a minor update to
 the 3.0 release. Sequence changes affect only chromosomes 7 and X. No additional assembly releases 
 are planned prior to the publication of the rat genome analysis papers.</p> 
 <p> 
 The 3.x assemblies reflect several sequence additions and software improvements over the previous 
 2.x assemblies, including the sequencing of over 1100 new BACs to cover gaps, an improved marker set
 from the Medical College of Wisconsin, a new FPC map from the BC Genome Sciences Centre, and 
 improved linking of bactigs. For detailed information and statistics about the 3.x assemblies, see 
 the Baylor HGSC <a href="ftp://ftp.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/pub/analysis/rat/README" 
 target="_blank">README</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the rat sequence and annotation data are available at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rnJun2003/" 
-target="_blank"> ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rnJun2003/</a> or via the Downloads link 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rnJun2003/" 
+target="_blank"> ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rnJun2003/</a> or via the Downloads link 
 on this page. These data are made available with <a href="credits.html#rat_use">specific conditions 
 for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium and Baylor HGSC for providing this assembly,
 collaborators from other institutions who have contributed annotations, and Arian Smit for updating 
 RepeatMasker for this release.  We'd also like to acknowledge the contributions of several 
 individuals at UCSC, including Hiram Clawson, Heather Trumbower, Robert Kuhn, Yontao Lu, Terry 
 Furey, Mark Diekhans, Robert Baertsch, Donna Karolchik, Jim Kent, and our sysadmin team Jorge 
 Garcia, Patrick Gavin, and Paul Tatarsky.</p>
 
 <h2>Jun. 24, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browsers released for <em>C. elegans</em> and <em>C.
 briggsae</em></h2> 
 <p> 
 UCSC has just released browsers and blat servers for 2 worms: C. elegans version WS100 (May 2003) 
 and C. briggsae version cb25.agp8 (Jul. 2002). The browsers are based on sequence obtained from 
@@ -20933,34 +20933,34 @@
 fully sequenced genome. In contrast,  the whole genome shotgun assembly of the C. briggsae genome is
 estimated to have achieved 98% coverage. Draft chromosome sequences are not available for C. 
 briggsae, due to the lack of dense chromosomal maps that allow assignment of ultracontigs to 
 chromosomal locations. As a result, all data in the C. briggsae browser maps to chrUn.</p>  
 <p> 
 Both worms played a significant role in the early history of the UCSC Genome Browser. The browser 
 code originated with a C script that displayed a splicing diagram for a gene prediction from C. 
 elegans. Tracks for mRNA alignments and for homology with C. briggsae were added, and the tool 
 morphed into the precursor of the Genome Browser, the &quot;Intronerator&quot; (Kent, WJ and Zahler,
 AM (2000). 
 <a href="http://nar.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/91?ijkey=155fc1582751ebf7b01072beb40325b1d0682fdc&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha" 
 target="_blank">The intronerator: Exploring introns and alternative splicing in C. elegans</a>. 
 <em>Nucleic Acids Res.</em> 28: 91-93).</p>  
 <p> 
 Downloads of the C. elegans sequence and annotation data are available at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ceMay2003/" 
-target="_blank"> ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ceMay2003/</a>; C. briggsae downloads can 
-be found at <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/cbJul2002/" 
-target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/cbJul2002/</a>. Both genomes can also be 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ceMay2003/" 
+target="_blank"> ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ceMay2003/</a>; C. briggsae downloads can 
+be found at <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/cbJul2002/" 
+target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/cbJul2002/</a>. Both genomes can also be 
 downloaded via the Downloads link on this page.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the <a href="http://genome.wustl.edu/" target="_blank">Genome Sequencing Center 
 at Washington University in St. Louis</a> and the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/" 
 target="_blank">Sanger Institute</a> for their collaborative work in sequencing the C. elegans and 
 C.  briggsae genomes. Many thanks to the <a href="http://www.wormbase.org/about/staff" 
 target="_blank">WormBase consortium</a> for making the worm sequence publicly available. We'd also 
 like to acknowledge several UCSC people who contributed to this release: Hiram Clawson (browser and 
 annotation tracks engineering), Jim Kent (WABA and chaining/netting), Al Zahler (WABA), Heather 
 Trumbower (QA and project management), and Donna Karolchik (project management and
 documentation).</p>
 
 <h2>Jun. 23, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; Genome Browser UI changes</h2> 
 <p> 
 You may notice that we've removed the Genome pulldown menu and genome assembly information from our 
@@ -20979,132 +20979,132 @@
 viral mRNA and protein alignments. Of particular note are the protein structure analysis and 
 predictions, determined by using the <a href="http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/sam.html" 
 target="_blank">Sequence Alignment and Modeling (SAM) T02</a> tool. </p> 
 <p> 
 This browser marks a departure from our usual collection of vertebrate genomes. Its inception was 
 inspired by one of our engineers - Angie Hinrichs - who was vacationing in New Zealand when the SARs
 draft assembly was initially released. Struck by the impact of SARS in that part of the world, she 
 downloaded the sequence and built the initial tracks from a terminal at an Internet cafe! The rest 
 of the team joined in on the grassroots effort, generating the additional annotations and SAM T02 
 protein analyses and predictions. Victor Solovyev chimed in with Fgenesv+ gene predictions from 
 Softberry Inc. UCSC does not intend to provide a comprehensive collection of viral genomes in the 
 future, but will maintain this browser as long as scientific and public interest in SARS 
 persists.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the annotation data are available at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/scApr2003/database" 
-target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/scApr2003/database</a> or via the Downloads
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/scApr2003/database" 
+target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/scApr2003/database</a> or via the Downloads
 link on this page.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank everyone who worked on this release, including Angie Hinrichs, Robert Baertsch, 
 Fan Hsu, Matt Schwartz, Heather Trumbower, Jim Kent, Kevin Karplus, Donna Karolchik, Brian Raney, 
 Hiram Clawson, Kate Rosenbloom, Victor Solovyev, and our extremely dedicated systems administrators 
 Paul Tatarsky, Patrick Gavin, and Jorge Garcia.</p>
 
 <h2>Apr. 21, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; Chromosome 8 data corrected for April 2003 human assembly</h2> 
 <p> 
 The file that we originally used to build the agp files for the Apr. 2003 human release (Build 33) 
 erroneously contained 2 contigs on chromosome 8 that were listed twice: NT_078037, NT_008183. We've 
 received a corrected version and have updated the following files on our website: contigAgp.zip, 
 chromAgp.zip, liftAll.zip. You can obtain the newer versions of these files from our ftp site at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/10april2003/bigZips/"> 
-ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/10april2003/bigZips/</a>.</p>
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/10april2003/bigZips/"> 
+ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/10april2003/bigZips/</a>.</p>
 
 <h2>Apr. 14, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; Human Genome Project successfully completed!</h2> 
 <p> 
 The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium today announced the successful completion of 
 the Human Genome Project. The most significant outcome of this project is the reference sequence of 
 the human genome. The sequencing of the 3 billion letters of DNA in the human genome - which many 
 consider to be one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings in history - was completed 2 years 
 ahead of schedule and at substantially less cost than original estimates. The reference sequence 
 will serve as a new foundation for research in the fields of medicine and human biology.</p>  
 <p> 
 In conjunction with this announcement, the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group is proud to release a 
 genome browser and BLAT server on the reference sequence (NCBI Build 33), along with bulk downloads 
 of the sequence and annotation data. The initial browser provides a preliminary set of annotations 
 that will be expanded in coming weeks. Bulk downloads of the data are available via FTP at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/10april2003">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/10april2003</a> 
-or through the <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> link on this 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/10april2003">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/10april2003</a> 
+or through the <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> link on this 
 page. We recommend that FTP be used rather than HTML for the download of large or multiple
 files.</p> 
 <p> 
 The reference sequence covers about 99 percent of the human genome's gene-containing regions, and 
 has been sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99 percent. The missing portions are essentially contained 
 in less than 400 defined gaps that represent DNA regions with unusual structures that can't be 
 reliably sequenced using current technology. The average DNA letter now lies within a stretch of 
 approximately 27,332,000 base pairs of uninterrupted sequence!</p> 
 <p> 
 Chromosomal sequences for this release were assembled by the International Human Genome Sequencing 
 Consortium sequencing centers and verified by NCBI and UCSC. In some cases, sequence joins between 
 adjacent clones could not be computationally validated, e.g. due to polymorphisms in the overlapping
 sequence. In situations like this, supporting evidence for the join has been provided by the 
 sequencing center responsible for that particular chromosome. The <a href="certificate.html">Non-standard Join Certificates</a> table displays this information. The annotations on the UCSC website 
 have been provided by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the <a href="credits.html">Credits</a> 
 page for a detailed list of organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.</p> 
 <p>
 We'd like to congratulate the many people worldwide who have worked on the Human Genome Project for 
 this landmark achievement. We'd also like to acknowledge the UCSC Genome Browser project team who 
 worked many long hours to ensure that the genome browser and sequence data were released on time for
 this announcement: David Haussler, Jim Kent, Terry Furey, Matt Schwartz, Heather Trumbower, Angie 
 Hinrichs, Fan Hsu, Donna Karolchik, Jorge Garcia, Patrick Gavin, Chuck Sugnet, Yontao Lu, Mark 
 Diekhans, Ryan Weber, Robert Baertsch, Krishna Roskin, and the many other students in the UCSC 
 Genome Bioinformatics group.</p>
 
 <h2>Apr. 2, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; Human assembly hg10 and mouse assembly mm1 archived</h2> 
 <p> 
 The Dec. 2001 Human assembly (hg10) and the Nov. 2001 Mouse assembly (mm1) have been moved to the 
 archives. They are no longer viewable in the main browser, but can still be downloaded from the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.edu">downloads server</a>.</p>
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.edu">downloads server</a>.</p>
 
 <h2>Mar. 26, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; New rat assembly released in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We've added an updated rat assembly to our site: Rat Jan 2003 (rn2). This corresponds to the 
 Version 2.1 Jan 2003 Update of the rat genome assembly, produced by the Atlas group at Baylor HGSC 
 as part of the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium.</p> 
 <p> 
 This update corrects duplications that were assembly artifacts in the previous version and improves 
 the linking of bactigs to create larger "ultrabactigs". Compared with the previous rat assembly, 
 sequence mapped to specific chromosomal coordinates is reduced by about 1.6 percent. Loosely mapped 
 and unmapped sequence is reduced by 17 percent. For more details and statistics on the Jan. 2003 
 assembly, see the Baylor HGSC 
 <a href="ftp://rat-ftp.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/pub/analysis/rat/README">README</a> for this release.</p>  
 <p> 
 UCSC has released a Genome Browser and BLAT server for this assembly update. The initial 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=rn2"> browser</a> contains 16 annotation tracks, with more to follow
 in coming weeks. Sequence downloads are currently available at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rnJan2003/" 
-target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rnJan2003/</a> or via the Downloads link on
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rnJan2003/" 
+target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rnJan2003/</a> or via the Downloads link on
 this page. A complete set of database downloads will be available at the beginning of next week. 
 This data contains <a href="credits.html#rat_use">specific conditions for use</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 Thanks to the Atlas group at Baylor HGSC, the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium, the UCSC Genome 
 Bioinformatics group, and contributors worldwide for making this release available.</p>
 
 <h2>Mar. 13, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp; Updated mouse genome assembly now available</h2> 
 <p> 
 We're happy to announce an update to the mouse genome sequence. This new version (Mouse Feb.  2003) 
 includes 705 megabases of finished sequence, compared to 96 megabases of finished sequence in the 
 previous assembly. Many people in the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium contributed to this update.
 The Sanger Institute in particular contributed a large amount of finished sequence. Richa Agarwala, 
 Deanna Church, and coworkers at NCBI layered the finished clones on top of the Arachne whole genome 
 shotgun assembly. Arian Smit constructed a new RepeatMasker library.</p>  
 <p> 
 UCSC has released a Genome Browser and BLAT server for the Feb. 2003 Mouse genome. The initial 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=mm3"> browser</a> contains 14 annotation tracks, with more to follow
 in coming weeks. Sequence downloads are currently available at 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mmFeb2003/" 
-target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mmFeb2003/</a> or via the Downloads link on
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mmFeb2003/" 
+target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mmFeb2003/</a> or via the Downloads link on
 this page. Database downloads will be available at the beginning of next week.</p> 
 <p> 
 Thanks to everybody at UCSC and around the world that contributed to this release!</p> 
 
 <h2>Feb. 5, 2003 &nbsp;&nbsp;  Enhanced version of Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 We're proud to announce the release of version 17 of the UCSC Genome Browser. This version contains 
 powerful new features, numerous improvements to the annotation track display, additional annotation 
 tracks, and a number of bug fixes. In this release cycle, we've also introduced an enhanced QA 
 process that formalizes our testing and verification of the Genome Browser software and the data 
 displayed in the browser.</p>  
 <p> 
 <strong>New functionality in v.17:</strong><br> 
 -- Numerous enhancements to the table browser that allow the user to conduct more complex and 
 specific searches. New features include support for intersections of tracks, a new summary 
@@ -21173,87 +21173,87 @@
 hg13). This assembly was produced at NCBI based on sequence information submitted into GenBank as of
 Nov. 14, 2002.  Release notes for this assembly are available from the 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/human/release_notes.html" target="_blank">NCBI web
 site</a>. Because UCSC now obtains its assembly directly from NCBI, the UCSC Build 31 data is 
 identical to that of NCBI and Ensembl.</p>  
 <p> 
 Build 31 is an excellent high-quality assembly that shows a remarkable amount of progress toward the
 milestone of finishing the human genome. Greater than 95% of the euchromatic region of the genome 
 is now complete, with more than 90% of the sequence in a finished state. The number of clone contig 
 gaps has decreased by one third from the previous assembly, and the overall number of sequenced 
 contigs has been reduced by one half. Seven chromosomes are considered to be in a finished state: 6,
 7, 13, 20, 21, 22, and Y.</p>  
 <p> 
 The initial release of the Build 31 Genome Browser contains 25 annotation tracks, with several more 
 to follow in the upcoming weeks. Bulk downloads of the data are available from our FTP site at
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/14nov2002" 
-target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/14nov2002</a> or via the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> link on this page.</p> 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/14nov2002" 
+target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/14nov2002</a> or via the 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">Downloads</a> link on this page.</p> 
 <p> 
 UCSC has generated a set of high-level comparisons of the Build 31 draft sequence against various 
 types of information (STS maps, BAC end pairs, and clone overlaps). This information, as well as 
 statistics for Build 31, is accessible from the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/chromReports/14Nov2002/" 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/chromReports/14Nov2002/" 
 target="_blank">Chromosome Reports</a>, 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/mapPlots/" 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/mapPlots/" 
 target="_blank">Genome Map Plots</a>, and <a href="stats.html" target="_blank">Summary 
 Statistics</a> links in the &quot;Technical Information about the Assembled Sequence&quot; section 
 below.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank NCBI as well as all the people who collaborated on the data and annotations for 
 this release.</p>
 
 <h2>Dec. 6, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Rat Genome assembly now available in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We're pleased to announce the release of a UCSC Genome Browser on the Nov. 2002 rat assembly 
 produced by the Baylor College of Medicine Rat Genome Sequencing Center and the Rat Genome 
 Sequencing Consortium. The sequence was assembled using a hybrid approach that combines the clone by
 clone and whole genome shotgun methods. A new software program - ATLAS - was developed for this 
 effort. The assembly process resulted in a 6.5-fold coverage of the rat genome, which is estimated 
 to be approximately 2.8 Gigabases in size.</p> 
 <p> 
 Downloads of the rat data and annotations are available through our 
-ftp site at <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn1" target="_blank">downloads 
+ftp site at <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn1" target="_blank">downloads 
 server</a>. This data contains <a href="credits.html#rat_use">specific conditions for use</a>. The 
 sequence is also available from the <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/rat" 
 target="_blank">Rat Genome Project website</a> for the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor 
 College of Medicine or from GenBank.</p> 
 <p> 
 We'd like to thank the Baylor team and the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium for their collaboration 
 on this project. See the <a href="credits.html#rat_credits">Credits page</a> for a complete list of 
 acknowledgments. For more information on the rat genome, the assembly process, and the Rat Genome 
 Sequencing Consortium, refer to the website for the <a href="http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/" 
 target="_blank">Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine</a>.</p>
 
 <h2>Dec. 5, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Mouse Genome Browser released</h2> 
 <p> 
 The International Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium has announced the publication of a high-quality
 draft sequence of the mouse genome, together with a comparative analysis of the mouse and human 
 genomes. The results from this analysis can be found in the Mouse Genome Browser on this website. 
 The paper appears in the Dec. 5 issue of the journal Nature at 
 <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/mousegenome/" 
 target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/nature/mousegenome/</a>. The co-author list includes several 
 members of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group: CBSE Director David Haussler, Research Scientist 
 Jim Kent and research team members Robert Baertsch, Mark Diekhans, Terrence Furey, Angie Hinrichs, 
 Fan Hsu, Donna Karolchik, Krishna Roskin, Matt Schwartz, Charles Sugnet and Ryan Weber.</p>
 
 <h2>Oct. 29, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Additional data downloads available for human assembly Jun. 2002</h2>
 <p> 
 We've added several new directories of downloadable data to the Jun. 28, 2002 human genome assembly.
 These directories contain mouse/human alignments of the Jun. 2002 human assembly vs. the Feb. 2002 
 mouse assembly. You can access these directories from our 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg12/" target="_blank">downloads server</a>.</p> 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg12/" target="_blank">downloads server</a>.</p> 
 <p>
 Within the main directory <em>vsMm2</em> are 3 subdirectories that contain all the alignments 
 (<em>axtAll</em>), alignments filtered to provide only the best alignment for any given region of 
 the human genome (<em>axtBest</em>), and a relatively stringent subset of the axtBest alignments 
 (<em>axtTight</em>). For more information about the format of the alignment files and the methods 
 used to generate the alignments, consult the <em>README.txt</em> file in the vsMm2 directory. </p>
 
 <h2>Oct. 18, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Enhancements in v16 Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We've rolled out a new version of the Genome Browser - v.16. In addition to several bug fixes, this 
 release contains some interesting new features.</p> 
 <p> 
 The Table Browser has undergone major enhancements. Users can now restrict their queries by 
 specifying a value or range for any of the fields in a table, and by selecting which fields should 
 be displayed in the output. The Table Browser also provides the ability to do a free-form SQL query 
@@ -21302,175 +21302,175 @@
 assembly, we've added Gene Bounds, UniGene, CpG Islands, Nonhuman mRNA & EST, SNPs, NC160, and GNF 
 Ratio. On the Apr. 2002 assembly we've added a Fgenesh++ Genes track, and have also updated the 
 RepeatMasker track. The Dec. 2001 release now includes a Sanger 22 track.</p> 
 <p>
 On the mouse genome, we have 2 new tracks for the Feb. 2002 assembly: TIGR Gene Index and
 RNA Genes.</p>
 	
 <h2>Aug. 6, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Error with six chromosome 3 contigs in human assembly hg12</h2> 
 <p> 
 We have fixed an error with six of the chr3 contigs in the bigZips/contigAgp.zip file. The following
 .agp files were corrected: NT_005684.agp, NT_005663.agp, NT_022554.agp, NT_022459.agp, 
 NT_006031.agp, and NT_022419.agp. The chr3.agp file in bigZips/chromAgp.zip was also modified. This 
 change does not affect the .gl files, the .fa files, the lift files, or the annotations. Alignments 
 made on the previous version of chr3 are still good. Updated versions of the contigAgp.zip and 
 chromAgp.zip files were uploaded to our site today. You can download the new versions via ftp from 
-our <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg12" target="_blank">downloads 
+our <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg12" target="_blank">downloads 
 server</a>.</p>
 
 <h2>Aug. 2, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; New RepeatMasker track available for human assembly hg12</h2> 
 <p>
 The problems with the Jun. 2002 Build 30 (hg12) RepeatMasker track have been resolved. The new 
 RepeatMasker track, along with regenerated Fish Blat and Genscan tracks, are now available in the 
 Browser and through our Downloads link. We've also added a few new annotation tracks for the Jun. 
 2002 release, and will be adding more over the next 2 weeks.</p> 
 <p>
 The latest Genome Browser has 2 new features. We've added filter functionality to the Table Browser,
 accessible via the Filter Fields button on the Table Browser main page. Also, some of the Dec. 2001 
 human genome tracks (eg. RefSeq Genes) now have a Comparative Sequence link from the details page 
 that shows annotated codons and translated protein with alignment to the mouse genome.</p>
 
 <h2>Jul. 27, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Problems with repeat-masking on human assembly hg12</h2> 
 <p> 
 We've experienced some RepeatMasker problems on Build 30 and are rerunning it. This will directly 
 affect the RepeatMasker track and the masking of the fasta files. The Fish Blat and Genscan tracks 
 may also change slightly once we're redone this. The EST, mRNA, and RefSeq tracks should not be 
 affected. We will also post a new RepeatMasker track for Build 29 (see news item below) as soon as 
 the Build 30 tracks are completed. We apologize for any rework this may cause.</p>
 
 <h2>Jul. 26, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Bulk data downloads now available for human assembly hg12</h2> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the Jun. 2002 Build 30 human genome assembly (hg12) are now available from the 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg12/" target="_blank">downloads server</a>. This 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg12/" target="_blank">downloads server</a>. This 
 initial release of the annotation database download contains a limited set of tables. Additional 
 files will be available for download next week.</p>
 
 <h2>Jul. 24, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Human assembly hg12 blat server available</h2> 
 <p> 
 The BLAT server and the coordinates conversion feature for human genome assembly Build 30 (hg12) are
 now functional.</p>
 
 <h2>Jul. 23, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Pre-release of human draft assembly Build 30 in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p>
 We're pleased to announce the pre-release of a browser for human genome assembly Build 30 from NCBI 
 (UCSC version hg12). This assembly was produced at NCBI based on sequence information submitted into
 GenBank as of Jun. 28, 2002. Build 30 release notes and statistics will soon be available from the 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/" target="_blank">NCBI web site</a>.</p>  
 <p> 
 Build 30 is an excellent high-quality assembly. It contains nearly 87% finished sequence, and 
 94%-97% coverage. The sequence coverage of this build is much higher than in previous releases, and 
 there is a high level of correspondence between the sequence and the map. Currently, the human 
 genome project appears to be on track to achieve the goal of finishing at least 95% of the human 
 genome (using Bermuda standards) by Apr. 2003.</p>  
 <p> 
 UCSC has generated a set of high-level comparisons of the Build 30 draft sequence against various 
 types of information (STS maps, BAC end pairs, and clone overlaps), accessible from the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/chromReports/24Jun2002/" 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/chromReports/24Jun2002/" 
 target="_blank">Chromosome Reports</a> and 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/mapPlots/" target="_blank">Genome Map 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/mapPlots/" target="_blank">Genome Map 
 Plots</a> links in the &quot;Technical Information about the Assembled Sequence&quot; section 
 below.</p> 
 <p> 
 A Blat server for Build 30 is not yet available, but should be accessible from this site later this 
 week. Data for the mitochondrial genome and several more annotation tracks will be posted for this 
 release as they become available. Bulk downloads of the hg12 data should be available from this site
 in a few days.</p>
 
 <h2>Jul. 9, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Repeat-masking problems on human assembly hg11</h2> 
 <p>
 We've found some problems with the repeat-masking of the Build 29 (hg11) human sequence. We're in 
 the process of replacing the RepeatMasker track, but do not plan to redo the other tracks due to the
 imminent release of Build 30. Because of this, we advise that you do not use the cross-species 
 tracks for statistical purposes.</p>
 
 <h2>Jul. 1, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; New look for UCSC Genome Bioinformatics home page</h2> 
 <p> 
 The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics home page is sporting an updated interface to accommodate the 
 growing number of organisms supported by the UCSC Genome Browser, BLAT, and Table Browser. The list 
 of assembly versions accessible through each of these tools can now be found on the tool's Gateway 
 page. To reach the Gateway page, choose an organism from the dropdown list on the left sidebar of 
 this page, then click the Browser, BLAT, or Tables link. New organisms will be added to the list in 
 the months ahead.</p>  
 <p>
 The UCSC site continues to provide a variety of bulk downloads of a genome assemblies and 
 annotations. The list of downloadable data has been removed from the home page, but is readily 
 available through the Downloads link on the left sidebar. The downloads list can also be accessed 
 directly at 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html</a> 
-or through our ftp site at <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/" 
-target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/</a>.</p>  
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html">http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html</a> 
+or through our ftp site at <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/" 
+target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/</a>.</p>  
 <p>
 Several new annotation tracks have been added to our site in the past couple weeks. The Feb. 2002 
 mouse assembly now has tracks for BAC End pairs, Fgenesh++ gene predictions, and AltGenie gene 
 predictions based on Affymetrix's Genie gene-finding software. New to the Apr. 2002 human assembly 
 is the GenMapDB Clones track, which shows placements of BAC clones from the GenMapDB database based 
 on BAC end sequencing information and confirmed using STS markers by Vivian Cheung's lab at U. Penn.
 We've also changed the Known Genes track name to RefSeq Genes in all assemblies.</p>  
 <p>
 This release also includes an updated <a href="help/hgTracksHelp.html" target="_blank">User's 
 Guide</a> and more detailed documentation on creating & using <a href="help/customTrack.html" 
 target="_blank">custom annotation tracks</a>.</p>
 
 <h2>May 24, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Bulk data downloads for human assembly hg11 now available</h2> 
 <p> 
 Bulk downloads of the April 2002 hg11 human genome assembly (NCBI Build 29) are now available from 
-the <a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg11/" target="_blank">downloads
+the <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg11/" target="_blank">downloads
 server</a>.</p>
 
 <h2>May 22, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Human draft assembly Build 29 released in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p> 
 We've just released a browser and BLAT server on the latest Build 29 human genome assembly from NCBI
 (UCSC version hg11). This assembly is based on sequence information submitted into GenBank as of 
 Apr. 5 2002. As with the Dec. 2001 (hg10) release, this assembly was produced at NCBI rather than at
 UCSC. Consult NCBI's Build 29 release notes and statistics
 for more information about this release. This assembly contains nearly 75% finished sequence. 
 Currently, the human genome project appears to be on track to achieve the goal of finishing at least
 95% of the human genome (using Bermuda standards) by Apr. 2003.</p> 
 <p>
 Although the NCBI human genome assembly has been steadily improving over the past year, mapping 
 problems still exist in the current release. Most are small, relatively local rearrangements. Larger
 scale problems include a rearrangement in the p-arm of Chr16 and several discrepancies in Chr17. 
 Researchers - especially positional cloners - are strongly encouraged to use the tools provided 
-(<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/mapPlots/" target="_blank">comparison 
-plots</a>, <a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/chromReports/" 
+(<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/mapPlots/" target="_blank">comparison 
+plots</a>, <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/human/chromReports/" 
 target="_blank">chromosome reports</a>) to evaluate the accuracy of the assembly in specific regions
 of interest.</p> 
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the hg11 data should be available from this site in approximately one week. New 
 annotation tracks will be posted as soon as they become available.</p>
 
 <h2>Apr. 24, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Bulk data downloads of mouse assembly Feb. 2002 available</h2> 
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the February 2002 mouse genome assembly are now available from the 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm2/" target="_blank">downloads server</a>.</p>
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm2/" target="_blank">downloads server</a>.</p>
 
 <h2>Apr. 19, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; New mouse genome assembly released</h2> 
 <p>
 The Feb. 2002 mouse genome assembly is now available in the browser and for BLAT searching. This 
 assembly was produced at the Whitehead Institute using their Arachne software. We'd like to thank 
 them and the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for providing this assembly, which has 
 <a href="credits.html#mouserestrict">specific conditions for use</a>. Bulk downloads of the data 
 should be available in approximately one week. Coordination with mouse genome data access at 
 <a href="http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/">Ensembl</a> and 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/mouse/">NCBI</a> is in progress. We'd also like to
 acknowledge the UCSC team that produced this release: Jim Kent, Terry Furey, Matt Schwartz, Fan Hsu,
 Yontao Lu, Donna Karolchik, Chuck Sugnet, and Ryan Weber.</p>
 
 <h2>Apr. 9, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Bulk data downloads of mouse assembly Nov. 2001 available</h2> 
 <p>
 Bulk downloads of the November 2001 mouse genome assembly are now available from the 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm1/" target="_blank">downloads server</a>.</p>
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm1/" target="_blank">downloads server</a>.</p>
 
 <h2>Apr. 2, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Release of new Genome Browser version and mouse/human annotations</h2>
 <p>
 An updated version of the UCSC Genome Browser (v.11) is now available. Along with the v.11 browser, 
 we've released several new annotation tracks on the latest human and mouse assemblies. The new Human
 Dec. 2001 tracks include: Mouse Synteny, Ensembl, Genscan, CpG Islands, Mouse Blat, Fish Blat, 
 Unigene/SAGE, NCI60 Microarray, GNF Affymetrix Microarray, Rosetta Microarray, and SNPs. An STS 
 Markers track has been added to the Mouse Nov. 2001 browser.</p>
 
 <h2> Mar. 14, 2002 &nbsp;&nbsp; Mouse draft assembly Nov. 2001 released in Genome Browser</h2> 
 <p>
 The November 2001 mouse genome assembly is now available for viewing in the browser and for BLAT 
 searching. This assembly was produced at the Sanger Center using the Phusion software developed by 
 Jim Mullikin and Zemin Ning, and was tied to the mouse fingerprint map by Tim Hubbard. We'd like to 
 thank them and the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium for providing this assembly, which has 
@@ -21629,38 +21629,38 @@
 <h2>Oct. 12, 2001 &nbsp;&nbsp; New gene prediction tracks for Apr. and Aug. browsers</h2> 
 <p>
 Several new sets of gene predictions came in this week. We now have fgenesh++ predictions for the 
 April freeze, and Genscan and Acembly predictions for the August freeze.</p>
 
 <h2>Oct. 11, 2001 &nbsp;&nbsp; Table Browser upgraded</h2> 
 <p>
 Why struggle with massive genomic file downloads when the UCSC 
 <a href="../cgi-bin/hgTables">Table Browser</a> lets you select exactly the track data desired via 
 a convenient web interface? Major new improvements by Krish Roskin have empowered and simplified 
 this feature available now for the three most recent assemblies.</p>
 
 <h2>Oct. 8, 2001 &nbsp;&nbsp; Oct. 2000 assembly moved to archives</h2> 
 <p>
 The October 2000 assembly has been moved to the 
-<a href="http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg5/">archives</a> to make room for the August 
+<a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg5/">archives</a> to make room for the August 
 assembly.</p>
 	
 <h2>Oct. 5, 2001 &nbsp;&nbsp; Revised Aug. 2001 assembly released</h2> 
 <p>
 A revised Aug. 2001 freeze assembly is now up. The problems with flipped contigs of finished clones 
 and high levels of sequence duplication are fixed. You can now download this assembly 
-<a href="ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg8/">in bulk</a> as well as browse it. 
+<a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg8/">in bulk</a> as well as browse it. 
 Chromosome by chromosome and annotation database files will be following over the next day or 
 two.</p>
 
 <h2>Oct. 2, 2001 &nbsp;&nbsp; Convert coordinates between different draft assemblies</h2> 
 <p>
 You can now convert coordinates between different versions of the draft using a new program, 
 hgCoordConv, written by Chuck Sugnet. hgCoordConv attempts to cut out sequences of the original 
 draft and align them to the new draft. When aligning the sequences to the new draft hgCoordConv 
 makes sure that the sequences are in the same order, orientation, and have the correct distances 
 between them.</p> 
 <p>
 Chuck has also implemented a SAGE/Unigene track in the browser. This track displays data from the 
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SAGE/" target="_blank">SAGEMap project at NCBI</a>. UniGene 
 cluster sequences are displayed in the browser and colored according to their average SAGE counts 
 over a series of experiments. Selecting one of the UniGene representative sequences displays the