Learn about the Browser

Documentation is somewhat dispersed, now let's see where we can learn something about this thing...

• Follow the video tutorials and browse through the slides at Openhelix.
• Read the User's guide and the FAQs
• Type in (manually) a couple of custom tracks in different formats
• Subscribe to the mailing list or search through it
• Look at the old website with lots of developer documentation and a similar place with hgSearchSpec docs and statistics
• Mirror the browser on your machine, search through its mailing list and read the documentation in src/product
  • Read how the original annotations were created, in the makeDb-files and create your own annotations as textfiles
  • Load them onto the browser: Read Jim's Documentation how to add your own tracks to your own browser (in kent/src/hg/makeDb/addTrack.doc) and Charles Sugnet's presentation about this
• Install the source tree and play with its tools, searching through the archives or this wiki, or browser the list of Kent source utilities available
• Sequence a genome of a random animal and put it into into your browser