Contact address update for the GeneHancer track set (hg19 + hg38)

[Yaron Guan Golan]

Hello,

 

I'm writing from LifeMap Sciences / the GeneCards team, the providers of the GeneHancer data underlying the GeneHancer track set on hg19 and hg38 ("GeneHancer Regulatory Elements and Gene Interactions").

 

The Contact section of those track description pages currently lists simon.fi...@weizmann.ac.il. Simon is no longer the correct point of contact. Could you please update it to our monitored group address:

 

sup...@genecards.org

 

This matches the email field already published in our own GeneHancer track hub (https://cdn.genecards.org/hubs/genehancer/hub.txt).

 

Two related notes, at your convenience:

 

1. The description pages state "Source data for the GeneHancer version 4.8 was downloaded during May 2018." Our current release is v6.1. If you'd like to refresh the UCSC-hosted tracks against current data, we're happy to coordinate — otherwise we can suggest wording that points users to our maintained hub for the latest version.

 

Thanks very much for maintaining these tracks.

 

Best regards,

Yaron Guan Golan

The GeneCards Team

[Jairo Navarro Gonzalez]

Hello,

Thank you for sending your inquiry and making these suggestions.

I have updated the contact information on the GeneHancer track description page and added a note pointing to the most recent version of GeneHancer via your track hub. If you have any suggestions on better wording, please let me know. 

https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&c=chr7&g=geneHancer

I have also created an internal ticket to update the GeneHancer track for hg38 and hg19, but that will take some time to allocate the engineering effort. For now, hopefully the note is sufficient so users can find the most recent data.

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Jairo Navarro
UCSC Genome Browser

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[Yaron Guan Golan]

Thanks fo your help!

Best regards,

Yaron Guan Golan

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From: Jairo Navarro Gonzalez <jnav...@ucsc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2026 8:25 AM
To: Yaron Guan Golan <y...@lifemapsc.com>
Cc: gen...@soe.ucsc.edu <gen...@soe.ucsc.edu>
Subject: Re: [genome] Contact address update for the GeneHancer track set (hg19 + hg38)