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- 08 April 2015 -
- bigGenePred Format Now Supported in the Genome Browser
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- We are pleased to announce that the UCSC Genome Browser now supports data in
- bigGenePred format. bigGenePred format stores annotation items that are a linked collection
- of exons, much as BED files do, but bigGenePred has additional information
- about the coding frames and other gene specific information. bigGenePred files are created initially
- from BED-type files with some extra fields, using the program bedToBigBed with a special
- AutoSQL file that defines the fields of the bigGenePred. The resulting bigBed files are in an
- indexed binary format. The advantage of these bigBed files is that only portions of the files
- needed to display a particular region are transferred to UCSC. So for large data sets,
- bigBed is considerably faster than regular BED files.
+ 15 May 2015 -
+ Work for Us! New Job Openings on the UCSC Genome Browser Project
- This new format is available for use in custom tracks and data hubs. For more information
- about bigGenePred, please see our
- bigGenePred Track Format help page.
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+ The UCSC Genome Browser project team is looking for two talented people to join our
+ engineering staff based in Santa Cruz, CA.
- 02 April 2015 -
- New Tarsier (tarSyr2) Assembly Now Available in the Genome Browser
+ The Software Engineer will work with a small engineering team to support and extend
+ the UCSC Genome Browser database and software, while interfacing with Genome Browser
+ collaborators and users worldwide. Our engineering work requires solid experience
+ with C, UNIX and SQL. For application information and more details, see
+ Job #150568 on the UCSC staff employment page.
- We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser for the September 2013
- assembly of tarsier, Tarsius syrichta (WashU Tarsius_syrichta-2.0.1,
- UCSC version tarSyr2). The whole genome shotgun assembly was provided by
- Washington University.
- There are 337,189 scaffolds with a total size of 3,453,864,774 bases.
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+ The Quality and User Support Analyst will work with a small QA group that interacts closely
+ with browser software developers and genomics researchers throughout the world. As
+ a member of the QA team, you will participate in all aspects of quality assurance for
+ genomics projects staffed by our group and provide technical support for the affiliated
+ user communities. For application information and more details about the position,
+ see Job #1505685 on the UCSC staff employment page.
- 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 tarsier (tarSyr2) 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 this release.
+ If you'd like to apply for one of these positions, be sure to submit your
+ application materials by May 25, 2015, for maximum consideration.
- 02 April 2015 - New Training Video!
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- Going crazy counting amino acids? Learn an easier way to find the codon number in our new training video. See our
- training page, and our
- YouTube channel for details.
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- 01 April 2015 - New GRCz10 Zebrafish Assembly Now Available:
- The most recent zebrafish assembly -- GRCz10 (UCSC version danRer10, Sep. 2014) -- is now
- available in the UCSC Genome Browser.
- Read more.
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- 20 March 2015 - New Visualization Option for RepeatMasker:
- We are excited to announce the release of the new RepeatMasker Visualization track for the
- hg38 and mm10 assemblies.
- Read more.
+ Read more.
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