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8 Mar 2016
- Combine Multiple Regions of the Genome Browser into a Single Visualization!
- Have ever wished you could remove all of the intronic or intergenic regions from the
+ Have you ever wished you could remove all of the intronic or intergenic regions from the
Genome Browser display? Have you ever dreamed of being able to visualize multiple
far-flung regions of a genome? Well, now you can with the new "multi-region" option
in the Genome Browser!
The multi-region modes provide four different ways to manipulate the display.
First, we have an "exon-only" mode that allows you to
remove all of the intergenic and intronic sequences from the display, leaving you with
only the exonic regions. Next, there is the "gene-only" mode allowing you to remove only
the intergenic regions from the display, leaving the genes with exons and introns intact.
Then there is the "custom regions" mode that allows you to use a remote BED file to
specify the regions you are interested in viewing alongside each other. Lastly, for human
assemblies hg17 and newer, there is the "alternative haplotype" mode that allows you to
view a haplotype sequence inserted into its position in the reference genome.
To access these exciting, new multi-region modes, first select your organism and assembly
of interest and navigate to the Genome Browser visualization. Below the tracks display,
there is a button labeled "multi-region". Clicking this button will bring up
a configuration box for the different multi-region modes. For example:
From this pop-up, you will be able to switch between the different modes or exit these
multi-region modes if desired. For instance:
Additionally, you can enter the "Exon-only" mode by typing the keyboard shortcut
"e" then "v". You can exit any of the multi-region modes and return to the
default Genome Browser display by typing the keyboard shortcut "d" then "v".
For more information about each individual multi-region mode, please see the
User Guide.
Thank you to Galt Barber, Matthew Speir, and the entire UCSC Genome Browser quality assurance team for
all of their efforts in creating these exciting new display modes.
10 February 2016 -
Two New Assemblies Now Available in the Genome Browser
A Genome Browser is now available for the mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)
assembly released May 2015 by the
The Broad Institute and the
Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center.
For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record
for Mmur_2.0.
There are 10,311 scaffolds with a total size of 2,438,804,424 bases.
Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
FTP server or the
Downloads page.
Please observe the conditions for use when
accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser 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.
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A Genome Browser is now available for the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
assembly released February 2007 by the
Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University, St. Louis.
For more information about this assembly, see
Ornithorhynchus_anatinus-5.0.1 in the NCBI Assembly database. There are
201,525 scaffolds with a total size of 1,996,826,513 bases.
Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data may be obtained from the Genome Browser
FTP server or the
Downloads page.
Please observe the conditions for use when
accessing and using these data sets. The annotation tracks for this browser 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.
20 Jan 2016 —
dbSNP 142 Available for mm10
Read more.
08 January 2016 —
dbSNP 144 Available for hg19 and hg38
Read more.
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