The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2017 update

Since its 2001 debut, the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/) team has provided continuous support to the international genomics and biomedical communities through a web-based, open source platform designed for the fast, scalable display of sequence alignments and annotations landscaped against a vast collection of quality reference genome assemblies. The browser's publicly accessible databases are the backbone of a rich, integrated bioinformatics tool suite that includes a graphical interface for data queries and downloads, alignment programs, command-line utilities and more. This year's highlights include newly designed home and gateway pages; a new ‘multi-region’ track display configuration for exon-only, gene-only and custom regions visualization; new genome browsers for three species (brown kiwi, crab-eating macaque and Malayan flying lemur); eight updated genome assemblies; extended support for new data types such as CRAM, RNA-seq expression data and long-range chromatin interaction pairs; and the unveiling of a new supported mirror site in Japan.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Nucleic Acids Res.

• Publication date

  2016-11-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/nar/gkw1134PMID 27899642PMCID 5210591
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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