changing "favourites" to the more typical American English usage of "favorites". Mostly American funding and user base, we should use American spelling preferences.
Added an "Others" option to the Species dropdown as requested in #2992.

* closes #2992
* interested parties can create individual widgets for species (like
  E. coli OP50) as desired.
Broke out end reads from whole clone extracted sequences using the new ?Clone:End_sequence tag.
* closes #2850
removed issues as a search option
added a new track for balancers

* this feature won't be available for testing until WS245 has been
  staged and the GBrowse configuration files built.
* See also related commits to the staging code in the admin repo
* Probably also requires changes to the Rearrangment summary, not yet specified.
added a new track for balancers

* as described in #1717
* this feature won't be available for testing until WS245 has been
  staged and the GBrowse configuration files built.
* See also related commits to the staging code in the admin repo
* Probably also requires changes to the Rearrangment summary, not yet specified.
Merge branch 'ws245_rearrangements' of github.com:WormBase/website into ws245_rearrangements
Quick stab at adding configuration for new tandem_duplication tracks as discussed in #2852

* This will not be testable until 245 is staged and config files built.
avoid markup class='text' in tag2link
Merge pull request #3096 from WormBase/staging

bringing ui branch up-to-date
Merge branch 'gene-published-as' into staging
Merge pull request #3075 from WormBase/ws245_ui

Some small UI changes for WS245
In any case, the concern is rather minor and isolated. I will merge this for now.
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/staging' into staging
fixed broken test due to data change in fpkm
add end_reads field to wormbase.conf #2850
fix clone test due to added remark
fix test case of lab representative broken due to order of data
WS245 gbrowse configuration
* DOES seem to fix #3104 although in a different way than specified by @paul-davis
Merge pull request #3113 from WormBase/245_gbrowse_config

WS245 gbrowse configuration
get motifs that doesn't have a score associated