The number of NCBI RefSeq assemblies has been increasing each year, and we expect the trend to continue as assemblies from VGP, and other projects are released. Our next step is to add additional clades to GenArk including archaea, viruses, and bacteria.
As mentioned above, assembly hubs in the GenArk allow for sequence alignment using the BLAT tool. We extended our traditional -BLAT tool to accommodate these assembly hubs and we call it -Dynamic BLAT. Dynamic BLAT +BLAT tool to accommodate these assembly hubs and we call it Dynamic BLAT. Dynamic BLAT pre-computes index genomes files, which allows assemblies to have a BLAT server without needing it to be resident in the computer's memory. Dynamic BLAT allows us to offer BLAT services on nearly all of our GenArk assemblies, with a few exceptions due to excessive genome size.
We would like to thank NCBI RefSeq and Vertebrate Genome Project (VGP) for making these assemblies available. We would also like to thank Hiram Clawson, Mark Diekhans, Galt Barber, Lou Nassar, and Gerardo Perez, and the rest of the Browser team for their work on building the assembly hubs, creating GenArk, and extending BLAT to include these new assembly hubs.
We are happy to announce the release of the Vaccines track for the UCSC