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30 January 2009 - 44-vertebrate Conservation Track Available
We are pleased to announce the release of a new
Conservation track based on the human (hg18) assembly.
This track shows multiple alignments of 44 vertebrate
species and measurements of evolutionary conservation using
two methods (phastCons and phyloP) from the PHAST package,
for all species (vertebrate) and two subsets (primate and
placental mammal). The multiple alignments were generated
using multiz and other tools in the UCSC/Penn State
Bioinformatics comparative genomics alignment pipeline.
Conserved elements identified by phastCons are also
displayed in this track.
For more details, visit the track description
page
This track is now the default Conservation track for the
human assembly; it replaces the previous 28-vertebrate
Conservation track. However, the previous 28-Way is still
available: it is now named "28-Way Cons".
Many people contributed to the creation of this track
including, but not limited to:
Adam Siepel (Cornell University): phastCons, phyloP, and other programs in the PHAST package
Webb Miller, Bob Harris & Minmei Hou (Penn State Bioinformatics Group): blastz and multiz
from the UCSC Genome Browser team: Hiram Clawson, Tim Dreszer, Brian Raney, Kate Rosenbloom & Ann Zweig
3 December 2008 - Updated Horse Genome Browser Available
The Sep. 2007 EquCab2 release of the horse genome (Equus
caballus) is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser. This
assembly, UCSC version equCab2, was produced by the
Broad
Institute.
Read more.
7 November 2008 - Medaka Genome Browser Updated
We have updated the initial UCSC Medaka Genome Browser
(oryLat1) to correct an error with chrUn in which the gap
relationships between the contigs within their
ultracontigs were incorrect.
Read more.
17 October 2008 - Quality Assurance Engineer Job Opening:
The UCSC Genome Browser group has reopened a search for a
Quality Assurance engineer: Biological Database Testing and
User Support Technician. Applicants should have a strong
background in biology and computation, and excellent skills
in scientific writing and editing. For details see the
job listing.
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