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title: "UCSC Genome Browser Slide Decks"
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This page collects training slides for the UCSC Genome Browser. Each slide deck
has been curated with a specific purpose, from basic navigation to interpreting
clinical variants. They are self-contained web decks: open one in any browser,
present it full-screen (press F), read the presenter notes
(press S, which opens them in a separate browser tab; close that tab
when you are done with them), or jump to any slide from its **Contents** page.
Feel free to use them in your courses or local trainings.
[Contact us](/contacts.html) to suggest new slide decks or improvements to the
current ones.
## Deck 1: UCSC Genome Browser Basics
Basic features and navigation of the
[main genome browser display](/cgi-bin/hgTracks): configuring tracks and display
modes, reading the gene model, browsing the track groups, viewing and extracting
DNA, querying the Table Browser, aligning sequences with BLAT, and loading your
own data as custom tracks, track hubs, and sessions.
**[▶ Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial1-basics/presentation/)**
· [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial1-basics/tableOfContents/)
## Deck 2: Cancer Data in the Genome Browser
An overview of the cancer and clinical databases hosted by the Genome Browser,
-organized by **somatic** and **germline** diagnosis CIViC, COSMIC, ClinVar, and TCGA
+organized by **somatic** and **germline** diagnosis: CIViC, COSMIC, ClinVar, and TCGA
Pan-Cancer for somatic variants, and GenCC, OMIM, and gnomAD for germline
questions. These databases are explored with a consistent BRAF V600E example throughout.
**[▶ Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial2-cancer/presentation/)**
· [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial2-cancer/tableOfContents/)
## Deck 3: Clinical Examples & Variant Interpretation
How to interpret a variant end to end: the **Recommended Track Sets**, the
regulatory and epigenetic context that non-coding variants need, worked germline
(BRCA2) and somatic (BRAF V600E) examples, expression, and AI
predictors such as AlphaMissense and SpliceAI.
**[▶ Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial3-clinical/presentation/)**
· [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial3-clinical/tableOfContents/)
## Deck 4: Clinical Case Studies
A set of real diagnostic cases spanning variant classes, each opening as a live
Genome Browser session: coding variants, splicing (deep-intronic and synonymous),
non-coding and regulatory variants, structural variants (CNVs), and repeat
expansions.
**[▶ Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial4-clinical-cases/presentation/)**
· [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial4-clinical-cases/tableOfContents/)
## Deck 5: Teaching with the Browser
Ready-made, interactive teaching modules from our
[Education portal](/training/education/): the central dogma (reading frames,
codons, splicing), variant effects (synonymous, missense, nonsense, frameshift),
and real disease and evolution case studies. Each module is a clickable session
plus a short description of that session and what it shows, ready to drop into a lecture or assignment.
**[▶ Open the deck](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial5-teaching/presentation/)**
· [Contents](/docs/slideDecks/tutorial5-teaching/tableOfContents/)