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Welcome to the Public Support UCSC Genome Browser Wiki

This wiki site provides a forum for sharing information about the UCSC Genome Browser, a web-based tool that provides a fast, easy way to display a specific region of a genome assembly, along with dozens of aligned annotation tracks. The browser features data from a large collection of vertebrates, model organisms, and selected invertebrate genomes.

In addition to offering general information about the browser on this site, we'd also like to share tips and tricks for more advanced users, information for mirror sites and developers, and discussions of the underlying data sets and experimental protocols. Please feel free to use this wiki to organize your collaborations and exchange ideas about Genome Browser usage. Our intent is to develop a collection of interesting projects and a store of information useful to a variety of audiences.

Before editing this wiki, please create an account by clicking on the "Log in/create account" link at the top of the page. For information about editing wiki pages, see also the Help:Contents link for specific information about this wiki, or for a more extensive discussion of page editing, the Wikipedia guidelines on How to edit a page. For navigation and organization assistance within this Wiki, use the Categories link in the navigation panel on the left.

Get help

The UCSC Genome Browser Support Team is available to answer questions by contacting one of the support forums:

• Post to the Public Help Forum: Email genome@soe.ucsc.edu​ or search the Public Archives
• Post to the Mirror Help Forum: Email genome-mirror@soe.ucsc.edu or search the Mirror Archives​
• Confidential/private help: Email genome-www@soe.ucsc.edu

UCSC Genome Browser Announcements List

Subscribing to this list provides occasional email alerts for new data & software.

* Subscribe: Email genome-announce+subscribe@soe.ucsc.edu 
* Unsubscribe: Email genome-announce+unsubscribe@soe.ucsc.edu

Join us on social media

Join us on Social Media!

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Wordpress Blog
• YouTube

Using genome.ucsc.edu

• Learn more about the browser
• How to create a custom track
• Minimal browser install
• Maintaining Browser mirrors
• Installing Browser Mirror

• User Developed Scripts - helpful hints from the user community

Genome Browser in a Box (GBiB)

• GBiB: From download to BLAT at assembly hubs
• GBiB: Deploying on VMWare ESXi

Genome Biology

• Genome Analysis - Phylogenetic origin of human SGSH introns Ancestral_introns:_SGSH

Browser Development

• Technical FAQ Category - list of technical discussions
• ENCODE Project at UCSC
• Automation of genome assembly database builds
• Custom track database implementation
• Track metadata handling - discussion of design for expanded search/display, especially for ENCODE
• Known genes III - design and discussion of next generation known genes track
• Medical sequencing data - discussion for design of next generation medical sequence data organization
• Web Services & Javascript - design and discussion of a genome browser architecture for the 2010's and maybe 2009....
• Implementation_Notes describe some of the down-and-dirty details that QA engineers often ask developers about... or that they get an earful about when they ask simple questions!

Science and Justice

• Genomics and Justice Meeting at UC Santa Cruz, May 17-18, 2007
• Science and Justice at UCSC.
• Ethics in the News

Administrative Information

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