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+ 15 July 2010 - Conservation +track available for zebrafish (danRer6): + We are pleased to announce the release of a new Conservation track based + on the zebrafish (danRer6) assembly. + Read more. +

7 July 2010 - Happy 10th Birthday, Human Genome!

Top graph: total traffic on the UCSC domain during June-July, 2000. Bottom graph: page hit
statistics on genome.ucsc.edu in the ensuing years since the Genome Browser was released.

UCSC is pleased to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the debut of the first assembled human genome sequence and its then-fledgling visualization tool, the UCSC Genome Browser. Released on July 7, 2000, the genome sequence instantly created unprecedented web traffic on the ucsc.edu domain as researchers around the world scrambled to download the data: 0.5 terabytes per day, a record that stood for many years.

David Haussler recounts that day: "Seeing the waterfall of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts pouring off our server was an emotional moment. We were witnessing the product of more than three billion years of evolution, sequences passed down from the beginning of life to present-day humans." 1

The UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group is proud of the role we have played in bringing the human genome, as well as the genomes of many other species, to the world. We'd like to thank NHGRI, HHMI, and our other funding agencies for making this service possible, and also our many users and collaborators for their suggestions, contributions, and support throughout the years. We look forward to serving as a reliable source of bioinformatics tools and genomic annotations in the years to come while facing the exciting challenges presented by rapidly advancing technology.

To read more about UCSC's role in the race to assemble the first working draft of the human genome, including Jim Kent's remarkable programming feat that pulled it all together in the final weeks, see the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) website.

(1) Sansom C, Morrison McKay BJ (2008) ISCB Honors David Haussler and Aviv Regev. PLoS Comput Biol 4(7): e1000101

4 June 2010 - dbSNP 131 Available for hg19: We are pleased to announce the release of dbSNP build 131, - available from on the human - assembly (GRCh37/hg19). + available from on the human assembly (GRCh37/hg19). Read more. -

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- 3 June 2010 - Updated Marmoset Genome Browser Available: - We have released an updated Genome Browser for the marmoset, Callithrix jacchus. - Read more. -

- 12 May 2010 - Pig Genome Browser Released: - We have released a Genome Browser for the pig, Sus scrofa. - Read more.

6 May 2010 - UCSC Hosts Portal for Neandertal Sequence, Alignments, and Analyses: In conjunction with the publication of the paper Green et al. A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome in the May 7 issue of Science, the UCSC Genome Browser project has released a public Neandertal portal that may be used to access the Neandertal sequence, alignments to the UCSC hg18 (NCBI Build 36) human reference assembly and the UCSC panTro2 (Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium v2.1) chimpanzee reference assembly, and several associated analyses. Read more.