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15 May 2012 - New Fugu (fr3) Assembly Now Available in the Genome Browser

We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the October 2011 fugu, Takifugu rubripes (JGI v5.0, UCSC version fr3). Whole genome shotgun assembly was provided by the International Fugu Genome Sequencing Consortium, led by JGI and the Singapore Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB).

Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser FTP server or the Downloads page. These data have specific conditions for use. The fugu (fr3) browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the Credits page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this release.


15 May 2012 - Naked Mole-Rat Assembly Now Available in the Genome Browser

We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the July 2011 naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber (BGI version HetGla1.0, UCSC version hetGla1). This draft assembly, produced by the Beijing Genomics Institute, has been sequenced using Illumina reads with a sequencing depth of >20x. There are 39,266 scaffolds with a total size of 2,643,961,837 bases. - The N50 size of the scaffolds is 1,321,980,918 bases with 502 + The N50 size of the scaffolds is 1,603,177 bases with 502 scaffolds larger, and 38,764 scaffolds smaller. The mitochondrial sequence is also available as the virtual chromosome "chrM".

Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser FTP server or the Downloads page. These data have specific conditions for use. The naked mole-rat browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the Credits page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this release.


8 May 2012 - OpenHelix to Conduct Free Genome Browser Webinars in May

OpenHelix is conducting two free webinars on the UCSC Genome Browser:

  • UCSC Genome Browser: An Introduction (Thursday, May 17, 1pm EDT) -- designed for new users of the UCSC Genome Browser and those who want to improve their skills at basic navigation and display.
  • UCSC Table Browser and Custom Tracks (Thursday, May 24, at 1pm EDT) -- advanced Genome Browser topics, including creating Custom Tracks and using the Table Browser.

The webinars will last approximately 1hr 15min.

Seating is limited and registration is required. Slides may be downloaded from the OpenHelix website prior to the webinar.

OpenHelix provides training materials and programs on hundreds of free, publicly accessible bioinformatics and genomics resources. To browse their entire collection of UCSC genomics tutorials, go to the OpenHelix UCSC training page.


2 May 2012 - OpenHelix Releases Updated Genome Browser Tutorials: OpenHelix has released updated versions of two Genome Browser tutorial suites. Read more.

18 April 2012 - GRC Planning Phase for GRCh38 Human Reference Assembly: The Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) plans to update the human reference assembly to GRCh38 in the summer of 2013. Read more.

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