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14 December 2012 - Reduced Coverage During the Holidays

The UCSC campus will be closed for the holidays from December 22, 2012 through - January 1, 2013. During this time the Genome Browser will still be available - however our backup systems will be offline for two days, December 27 and 28. + January 1, 2013. The Genome Browser will still be available; + however, our backup systems will be offline for two days, December 27 and 28. During this time if we experience any issues, associated fixes are likely to be delayed. The help desk will also be minimally staffed during this period. We will be monitoring the mailing lists for urgent messages, but the bulk of the questions will go unanswered until early January.

07 December 2012 - dbSNP 137 Available for hg19

We are pleased to announce the release of four tracks derived from dbSNP build 137, available on the human assembly (GRCh37/hg19). dbSNP build 137 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 dbSNP build 137, there are four tracks in this release. One is a track containing all mappings of reference SNPs to the human assembly, labeled "All SNPs (137)". The other three tracks are subsets of this track and show interesting and easily defined subsets of dbSNP:

  • Common SNPs (137): uniquely mapped variants that appear in at least 1% of the population
  • Flagged SNPs (137): uniquely mapped variants, excluding Common SNPs, that have been flagged by dbSNP as "clinically associated"
  • Mult. SNPs (137): variants that have been mapped to more than one genomic location

By default, only the Common SNPs (137) are visible; other tracks must be made visible using the track controls.

You will find the four SNPs (137) tracks on the Human Feb. 2009 (GRCh37/hg19) browser in the "Variation and Repeats" group.

The tracks were produced at UCSC by Angie Hinrichs and Steve Heitner.

27 November 2012 - New UCSC Genes Track Released for Mouse

We're happy to announce the release of a new UCSC Genes track for the GRCm38/mm10 mouse Genome Browser.

The new release has 59,121 transcripts, compared with 55,419 in the previous version on mm9. The total number of canonical genes has increased from 28,661 to 31,227. Comparing the new gene set with the previous version:

  • 48,739 transcripts did not change between versions.
  • 423 transcripts were not carried forward to the new version.
  • 5,108 transcripts are "compatible" with those in the previous set, meaning that the two transcripts show consistent splicing.
  • 1,037 transcripts overlap with those in the previous set.

More details about the new UCSC Genes track can be found on the UCSC Genes track description page. Also, please note that GRCm38/mm10 is now the default mouse assembly on the Genome Browser Gateway.

Many thanks to Brian Raney, Jim Kent, and Luvina Guruvadoo for their work on this track!

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