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About the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Site
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Welcome to the UCSC Genome Browser website.
This site contains the
reference sequence and working draft
assemblies for a large collection of genomes. It also
provides a portal to the ENCODE project.
We encourage you to explore these sequences with our tools.
The
Genome
Browser zooms and scrolls over chromosomes,
showing the work of annotators worldwide. The
Gene
Sorter
shows expression, homology and other information on groups
of genes that can be related in many ways.
Blat
quickly maps your sequence to the genome. The
Table
Browser provides convenient access to the underlying
database.
VisiGene
lets you browse through a large
collection of in situ mouse and frog images to
examine expression patterns.
Genome
Graphs allows you to
upload and display genome-wide data sets.
The UCSC Genome Browser is developed and maintained by the
Genome Bioinformatics Group,
a cross-departmental team within the Center for Biomolecular
Science and Engineering (CBSE)
at the University of California Santa Cruz
(UCSC).
If you have feedback or questions concerning the tools or
data on this website, feel free to contact us on our
public mailing list. To view
the results of the Genome Browser users' survey we
conducted in May 2007, click
here.
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To receive announcements of new genome
assembly releases, new software features, updates and
training seminars by email, subscribe to the
genome-announce mailing list.
17 September 2008 - Seven Assemblies Archived
We have archived seven older assemblies of the human
(hg15), mouse (mm5, mm6), rat (rn2), C. elegans
(ce1), zebrafish (danRer2), and cow (bosTau1) genomes.
You can continue to browse these assemblies on the
Genome Browser
archive
server. At least two later assemblies for each of these organisms
remain available on the main Genome Browser site.
We do not provide blat servers or updated GenBank data for
archived assemblies. However, it is still possible to lift
coordinates between these assemblies and those on the main
browser site.
15 September 2008 - Request for Input on ENCODE Data Release Plan:
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
has updated the data release plan for the
ENCODE and model organism ENCODE
(modENCODE) projects.
Because the plan is intended to take
into account the needs and responsibilities of the resource
users, NHGRI is soliciting feedback on the proposal from the
research community before the plan is finalized. To
facilitate this review, UCSC has made the
plan available to the community
here on our ENCODE website.
Please send comments directly to
Encode@mail.nih.gov
by Wednesday, October 15, 2008.
3 September 2008 - Updated UCSC Genes Set Released for hg18:
We have released an updated UCSC Genes data set on the
latest human assembly (hg18, March 2006).
Read more.
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The sequence and annotation data displayed in the Genome Browser
are freely available for any use
with the following conditions:
- Genome sequence data use restrictions are noted within the
species sections on the Credits
page.
- Some annotation tracks contributed by external collaborators
contain proprietary data that have specific use restrictions. To
check for restrictions associated with a particular genome assembly,
review the database/README.txt file in the assembly's
downloads directory.
The Genome Browser and Blat software are free for academic,
nonprofit, and personal use. A license is required for commercial use.
See the Licenses page for more information.
Program-driven use of this software is limited to a maximum of one
hit every 15 seconds and no more than 5,000 hits per day.
For assistance with questions or problems regarding the UCSC Genome
Browser software, database, genome assemblies, or release cycles,
see the FAQ.
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Technical Information About the Assembled Sequence
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