[genome-announce] Updated GENCODE gene tracks for human assemblies, hg19 and hg38

[Jairo Navarro Gonzalez]

Hello everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of the updated GENCODE Gene annotation tracks, which corresponds to the Ensembl 92 release for human assemblies, hg19/GRCh37and hg38/GRCh38. All GENCODE V28 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 v28 gene set contains the following tracks:

• Basic - a subset of the Comprehensive set.
  
• Comprehensive - all GENCODE coding and non-coding transcript annotations, including polymorphic pseudogenes. This includes both manual and automatic annotations.
  
• Pseudogenes - all annotations except polymorphic pseudogenes.
  

The hg38 assembly also includes the following tracks that are not available on hg19:

• 2-way Pseudogenes - pseudogenes predicted by both the Yale Pseudopipe and UCSC Retrofinder pipelines.
  
• PolyA - polyA signals and sites manually annotated on the genome based on transcribed evidence (ESTs and cDNAs) of 3' end of transcripts containing at least 3 A's not matching the genome.

Jairo Navarro 

UCSC Genomics Institute

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