type: gene_models

filename: hg38.knownGene.txt.gz
format: default

meta:
  summary: |
    UCSC Known Genes v20230628
  description: |
    
    The UCSC Known Genes track (genome.ucsc.edu) provides a comprehensive set of gene annotations for the human genome, 
    constructed through a fully automated process integrating protein data from Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL (UniProt) and associated 
    mRNA data from GenBank, with extensive cross-references to genomic and proteomic data resources. It offers broad coverage of 
    protein-coding genes with extensive cross-references to genomic 
    and proteomic data resources, serving as a foundation for the Genome Browser, Gene Sorter, and Table Browser at the 
    UCSC website. 
    
    [Hsu et al, The UCSC Known Genes, Bioinformatics 2006](https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/22/9/1036/200093)
    
    [Nassar et al, The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2025 update, Nucleic Acids Research 2025](https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/53/D1/D1243/7845169)

    Downloaded on: 05/20/2026
    
    [https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/genes/hg38.knownGene.gtf.gz](https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/bigZips/genes/hg38.knownGene.gtf.gz)
  
  labels:
    reference_genome: hg38/genomes/GRCh38-hg38
