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19 April 2016 - - New Genotyping Tissue Expression Track for hg19 and hg38! + - New GTEx Gene Tissue Expression Track for hg19 and hg38

- We are excited to announce the release of a new track based on data from the - - Genotyping Tissue Expression Consortium V6 data freeze. This track displays tissue-specific - gene expression for a single gene based on RNA-Seq data. The original data for this + We are excited to announce the release of a new gene expression track based on data from the NIH + Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. + This track displays tissue-specific expression based on RNA-Seq data of 53 tissues from 570 donors, obtained from + the GTEx 'midpoint' data release (October 2015, V6). + The original data for this track can be found at the GTEX Portal hosted by the Broad Institute.

This track also features a new display method that extends the traditional Genome Browser - display — a bar graph! Each bar graph depicts the expression level (in RPKM) of the - various tissues assayed by the GTEX Consortium, and is specific to each gene, not the graph's - vertical location in the browser! + display — a bar graph! Each gene is represented by a graph with colored bars depicting the median expression + level (in RPKM) of each tissue assayed by the GTEX project. + Note that the graph is a fixed width, and starts at the gene transcription start.

- Notice how the blue gene-model underneath the graph extends past the end of the graph? This gene + Notice how the blue gene-model underneath the graph shown here extends past the end of the graph? This gene model represents the target of the RNA-Seq experiment, and the graph displays the RPKM levels across many different tissues for the entire gene. Traditionally the 3 purple bars would be associated with the intron of TCAP gene, in this case those three bars indicate that the entire gene is highly expressed in cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue. Clicking on the graph brings up a description page which displays a more detailed box and whisker plot of the RPKM - data, as well as a description about all the methods used in the generation of the data. + data, as well as a description of the methods used to generate the data.

- Credit goes to Kate Rosenbloom for implementing this feature. - --> + Credit goes to Kate Rosenbloom for implementing and Christopher Lee for quality reviewing this feature. + <-->

15 April 2016 - dbSNP 146 Available for hg19 and hg38

We are pleased to announce the release of four tracks derived from NCBI dbSNP Build 146 data, available on the two most recent human assemblies GRCh37/hg19 and GRCh38/hg38. NCBI's dbSNP database is a collection of "simple nucleotide polymorphisms" (SNPs), which are a class of genetic variations that include single nucleotide polymorphisms and small insertions/deletions (indels). This immense database contains over 150 million such SNPs that cover the human genome.

There are four SNP tracks available as part of this release. One is a track containing all mappings of reference SNPs to the human assembly, labeled "All SNPs (146)". The other three tracks are subsets of this track and show interesting and easily defined subsets of dbSNP:

Common SNPs (146): uniquely mapped variants that appear in at least 1% of the population or are 100% non-reference.
Flagged SNPs (146): uniquely mapped variants, excluding Common SNPs, that have been flagged by dbSNP as "clinically associated".
Mult. SNPs (146): variants that have been mapped to more than one genomic location. This track has been shrinking over the course of the last few releases as dbSNP now excludes most SNPs whose flanking sequences map to multiple locations in the genome.

By default, only the Common SNPs (146) are visible; other tracks must be made visible using the track controls. You will find the other SNPs (146) 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.

15 April 2016 - Three New Assemblies Now Available in the Genome Browser

A Genome Browser is now available for the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) assembly released December 2014 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for gorGor4. There are 25 complete chromosomes alongside 40,667 scaffolds with a total size of 3,063,362,754 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 rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) assembly released November 2015 by the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center. For more information and statistics about this assembly, see the NCBI assembly record for Mmul_8.0.1. There are 23 complete chromosomes alongside 284,705 scaffolds with a total size of 3,236,224,332 bases.

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A Genome Browser is now available for the crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis) assembly released June 2013 by the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University, St. Louis. For more information about this assembly, see Macaca_fascicularis_5.0 in the NCBI Assembly database. There are 22 complete chromosomes alongside 7,579 scaffolds with a total size of 2,946,843,737 bases.

4 Apr 2016 - New video shows how to obtain sequence or coordinates for exons.

We have released a new video to our YouTube channel. This newest installment in our effort to share the capabilities of the Genome Browser shows how to use the Table Browser to obtain either the sequences or the coordinates for exons in the genes from a chosen region of the genome.

We also want to take this opportuinty to remind you that we offer on-site workshops to help you and your colleagues make the most out of the Genome Browser.

1 Apr 2016 - Going Back to Our Roots! Read more.

21 Mar 2016 - Genome Browsers for C. elegans and Brown Kiwi Now Available. Read more.