New Pseudogenes track for hg38

[Gerardo Perez]

Hello Everyone,

We are happy to announce the release of the Pseudogenes track for the hg38 (GRCh38) genome assembly. The composite track contains pseudogene predictions and their corresponding parent genes, as identified by PseudoPipe, a homology-based computational pipeline that searches a mammalian genome and identifies pseudogene sequences.

This composite track consists of two subtracks: the Pseudogene Parents track and the Pseudogenes track.

• Pseudogene Parents – This track displays parent genes labeled with their HUGO IDs, which were derived from Ensembl gene IDs provided by the Gerstein lab after dataset creation. It includes indicators for pseudogenes, each linked to its corresponding entry in the Pseudogenes track. Parent genes are shown with their associated pseudogenes represented as grey blocks.
• Pseudogenes – This track displays pseudogenes labeled with their parent HUGO ID and the pseudogenes are color-coded by pseudogene type: unspecified pseudogene, processed pseudogene, and unprocessed pseudogene.

More information on this composite track can be found on the track description page.

We would like to thank the Gerstein lab at Yale University for making this data available, and Cristina Sisu for providing data in GTF format with parent annotations. We would also like to thank Jeltje van Baren, Mark Diekhans, and Gerardo Perez for their efforts on this release.