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- 18 March 2011 - dbSNP 132 Available for hg19 + 18 April 2011 - dbSNP 132 Available for hg19
We are pleased to announce the release of four tracks derived from dbSNP build 132, available on the human assembly (GRCh37/hg19). dbSNP build 132 is available at NCBI. The new tracks contain additional annotation data not included in previous dbSNP tracks, with corresponding coloring and filtering options in the Genome Browser.
As for prior builds of dbSNP, there is a track that contains all mappings of reference SNPs to the human assembly; it is now labeled "All SNPs (132)". Three new tracks have been added to show interesting and easily defined subsets of dbSNP: @@ -102,31 +102,31 @@ (GRCh37/hg19) browser in the "Variation and Repeats" group.
Many thanks to dbSNP at NCBI for the data, and to Mary-Claire King at the University of Washington for helpful comments that motivated us to enhance our dbSNP annotations. The tracks were produced at UCSC by Angie Hinrichs, Brooke Rhead, Bob Kuhn, and Jim Kent.
- 18 March 2011 - Sheep Browser Released + 18 April 2011 - Sheep Browser Released
We are happy to announce a Genome Browser for the initial release of sheep (Ovis aries) genome. The Feb. 2010 Ovis aries draft assembly (NCBI project 10709, GCA_000005525.1) was produced by the International Sheep Genomics Consortium (ISGC) sequencing center. The mitochondrial genome was sequenced by Justus-Liebig-University.
There are 27 chromosomes: chr1 - chr26, chrX, plus the mitochondrial sequence chrM from genbank accession NC_001941, for a total sequence length of 2,860,512,983 bases. There are