[genome-announce] GENCODE Genes v39 for human (hg38)

[Jairo Navarro Gonzalez]

Hello everyone,

We are happy to announce the release of the GENCODE Genes v39 track for the human (GRCh38/hg38) genome assembly. The track includes protein-coding genes, non-coding RNA genes, and pseudo-genes, though pseudo-genes are not displayed by default. It contains annotations on the reference chromosomes as well as assembly patches and alternative loci (haplotypes).

GENCODE v39 Release Stats
Genes	Observed	Transcripts	Observed
Protein-coding genes	19,982	Protein-coding transcripts	87,151
Long non-coding RNA genes	18,811	- full length protein-coding	61,516
Small non-coding RNA genes	7,567	- partial length protein-coding	25,635
Pseudogenes	14,763	Nonsense mediated decay transcripts	19,762
Immunoglobulin/T-cell receptor gene segments	409	Long non-coding RNA loci transcripts	53,009

More details about the GENCODE Genes v39 track can be found on the track description page.

We would like to thank the GENCODE Project for providing the data. 

Jairo Navarro 
UCSC Genome Browser
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
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