1. The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2021 update.
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Navarro Gonzalez J, Zweig AS, Speir ML, Schmelter D, Rosenbloom KR, Raney BJ, Powell CC, Nassar LR, Maulding ND, Lee CM, Lee BT, Hinrichs AS, Fyfe AC, Fernandes JD, Diekhans M, Clawson H, Casper J, Benet-Pagès A, Barber GP, Haussler D, Kuhn RM, Haeussler M, and Kent WJ
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- Animals, COVID-19 epidemiology, COVID-19 virology, Data Curation methods, Epidemics, Humans, Internet, Mice, Molecular Sequence Annotation methods, SARS-CoV-2 physiology, Software, COVID-19 prevention & control, Computational Biology methods, Databases, Genetic, Genome genetics, Genomics methods, SARS-CoV-2 genetics
- Abstract
For more than two decades, the UCSC Genome Browser database (https://genome.ucsc.edu) has provided high-quality genomics data visualization and genome annotations to the research community. As the field of genomics grows and more data become available, new modes of display are required to accommodate new technologies. New features released this past year include a Hi-C heatmap display, a phased family trio display for VCF files, and various track visualization improvements. Striving to keep data up-to-date, new updates to gene annotations include GENCODE Genes, NCBI RefSeq Genes, and Ensembl Genes. New data tracks added for human and mouse genomes include the ENCODE registry of candidate cis-regulatory elements, promoters from the Eukaryotic Promoter Database, and NCBI RefSeq Select and Matched Annotation from NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE). Within weeks of learning about the outbreak of coronavirus, UCSC released a genome browser, with detailed annotation tracks, for the SARS-CoV-2 RNA reference assembly., (© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.)
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- 2021
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