UCSC genome browser tutorial

Ann S. Zweig, Donna Karolchik, Robert M. Kuhn, David Haussler, W. James Kent
2008 Genomics  
The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Bioinformatics website consists of a suite of free, opensource, on-line tools that can be used to browse, analyze, and query genomic data. These tools are available to anyone who has an Internet browser and an interest in genomics. The website provides a quick and easy-touse visual display of genomic data. It places annotation tracks beneath genome coordinate positions, allowing rapid visual correlation of different types of information.
more » ... of the annotation tracks are submitted by scientists worldwide; the others are computed by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics group from publicly available sequence data. It also allows users to upload and display their own experimental results or annotation sets by creating a custom track. The suite of tools, downloadable data files, and links to documentation and other information can be found at http://genome.ucsc.edu/.
doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.02.003 pmid:18514479 fatcat:lb2qwts3zba7jkhv66cfctrqx4