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.
removed issues as a search option
fix wrong omim link #3074
reduce number of omim external api calls by aggregate a list of omim ids within same field #2865
refactor human orthologs and omim request #2865
update some comment #2865
Merge pull request #3082 from WormBase/omim-fix

Omim fix
Published_as evidence for references linked to papers #2969
adjust style for referenced gene
Merge pull request #3090 from WormBase/gene-published-as

Gene published as
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
fix clone test due to added remark
fix test case of lab representative broken due to order of data
Merge pull request #3113 from WormBase/245_gbrowse_config

WS245 gbrowse configuration