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+ 20 October 2014 - + dbSNP 141 Available for hg19 and hg38 +
+ We are pleased to announce the release of four tracks derived from NCBI + dbSNP Build 141 + data, available on the two most recent human assembies GRCh37/hg19 and GRCh38/hg38. + The new tracks contain additional annotation data not included in previous dbSNP + tracks, with corresponding coloring and filtering options in the Genome Browser. +
++ There are three SNP tracks available for the GRCh37/hg19 assembly. One is a track + containing all mappings of reference SNPs to the human assembly, labeled + "All SNPs (141)". The other two tracks are subsets of this track and show + interesting and easily defined subsets of dbSNP: +
++ Unlike previous dbSNP releases for GRCh37/hg19, Build 141 does not include + mappings to alternate haplotype sequences. In addition, variants that map to + multiple genomic locations (e.g. to different chromosomes, or more than one + position on the same chromosome) have been removed. +
++ This release also marks the first set of dbSNP data available for the newest + human assembly, GRCh38/hg38. In addition to the three tracks described for + hg19, there is one additional track available for hg38: +
+ By default, only the Common SNPs (141) are visible; other tracks must be + made visible using the track controls. You will find the other SNPs (141) tracks on + both of GRCh37/hg19 and GRCh38/hg38 browsers in the "Variation" group. +
++ The tracks were produced at UCSC by Angie Hinrichs and Matthew Speir. We'd like + to thank the dbSNP group at NCBI for providing access to these data. +
+ +We're excited to introduce a new blog that will feature posts by Genome Browser staff and guests. On the blog we'll be publishing in-depth information about UCSC Genome Browser features, tools, projects and related topics that we hope people will find both useful and interesting. We just published our inaugural post written by Jim Kent, the UCSC Genome Browser Architect and PI, on the 2014 Ebola Epidemic.
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- We are excited to announce the release of a Genome Browser and information portal for the - Jun. 2014 assembly of the Ebola virus (UCSC version eboVir3, GenBank accession - KM034562) - submitted by the Broad Institute. We have worked closely with the - Pardis Sabeti lab at - the Broad Institute and other Ebola experts throughout the world to incorporate - annotations that will be useful to those studying Ebola. Annotation tracks included in this - initial release include genes from NCBI, B- and T-cell epitopes from the IEDB, structural annotations from UniProt and a wealth of SNP data from the - 2014 publication - by the Sabeti lab. This initial release also contains a 160-way alignment - comprising 158 Ebola virus sequences from various African outbreaks and 2 Marburg virus - sequences. - You can find links to the Ebola virus Genome Browser and more information on the Ebola virus - itself on our Ebola Portal page. -
+ +30 September 2014 - Genome Browser for the Ebola Virus Now Available: We are excited to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the June 2014 assembly of Ebola Virus (Sierra Leone 2014 (G3683/KM034562.1), UCSC version eboVir3). Read more.
- --> - -23 September 2014 - Ensembl Regulatory Build Now Available in the Genome Browser: We are pleased to announce that data from the Ensembl Regulatory Build is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser as a public track hub for both hg19 and hg38. Read more.
-- 04 September 2014 - - New ENCODE portal launched at - www.encodeproject.org: - The website for up-to-date information about the ENCODE project is no - longer hosted at genome.ucsc.edu/ENCODE. - Read more. -
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