New European Server Released

[robert kuhn]

The UCSC Genome Browser is pleased to announce the introduction
of a new mirror site to serve our users in Europe. Genome-euro is an
official European mirror site of the UCSC Genome Browser, at
http://genome-euro.ucsc.edu. The server is physically located at the
Universit�t Bielefeld Center for Biotechnology in Bielefeld, Germany,
and is administered by UCSC. Genome-euro is meant to be an alternate,
faster access point for those Browser users who are geographically
closer to central Europe than to the western United States.

All functionality will be the same as on the US server, although Custom
Tracks will not be transferred. Saved Sessions containing Custom Tracks
will require some manual intervention

When European users navigate to the US server home page and click
the "Genomes" menu item, they will receive a notification that they have
been redirected to the more geographically-appropriate server. They will
have the option to remain on the US server, as described in our
documentation

The backup mirror in Aarhus, Denmark will continue to serve as a
emergency site in the event of the official sites in California and Germany
malfunctioning.

Thanks to Steve Heitner, Brooke Rhead, Galt Barber, Hiram Clawsen,
Jorge Garcia and the rest of the Genome Browser staff for engineering
and testing.

We wish to express our special thanks to our colleagues at the
Universit�t Bielefeld Bioinformatics, especially Jens Stoye, for making
this possible.

Regards,

--b0b kuhn
ucsc genome bioinformatics group