Genome Browser Software Features

This page contains a list of major new software features found in the UCSC Genome Browser. The most recent features are always at the top of the page.

15 May, 2009 (v206)

• Fixed a couple off-by-one problems with insertion lines on the right end of CDS
• Fixed performance/memory leak for bedList
• Fixed bug where exons within 3 bases of the start of a chromosome are rendered in solid yellow
• hgTracks cart cleanup (Angie)
• Changes to details pages for displaying ENCODE metadata (Tim)

1 May, 2009 (v205)

• Increased size for table names of composite tracks to accommodate long ENCODE table names
• New file types: bigBed and bigWig
• Initial implementation of gff3 parser

17 April, 2009 (v204)

• Fixed off-by-one error that caused blue insert line to be drawn 1 base to the left of the end of + strand items
• Fix to Table Browser schema for subtrack tables
• Fixed Table Browser to allow show schema to work properly for non-genome databases
• Set USE_SSL=0 be the default since some mirror sites have difficulty
• Added numeric field validation by javascript to hgTracks
• Added numeric field validation by javascript to Table Browser
• Extended BLAT to accept long chrom names (e.g. chrNN_something)
• Fixed many instances of Table Browser using composite table when subtrack table is needed

3 April, 2009 (v203)

• added color-by-gray-scale option to Net track configuration (in addition to existing color-by-chromosome)
• new output type in Table Browser for microarray tracks: microarray tissue names

13 March, 2009 (v202)

• changed PCR display to indicate the location of primers

12 February, 2009 (v200)

• turned on drag-and-zoom feature by default
• fixed navigation to Ensembl when their chromosome names are different than ours

30 January, 2009 (v199)

• introduced multi-view track configuration

16 January, 2009 (v198)

• added drag-and-zoom feature to image (hgTracks)
• changed default image width from 620 pixels to 800 pixels
• added expand all / collapse all buttons for groups on hgTracks
• import marker-value pairs into Genome Graphs to get a custom marker column in the Gene Sorter
• Table Browser sped up when large number of ID names are uploaded/pasted

19 December, 2008 (v197)

• Turned on by default the "next/previous exon navigation"

5 December, 2008 (v196)

• (partial list)
• hgPcr expanded to include UCSC Genes amplification for human and mouse (jumps across introns).

18 November, 2008 (v195)

• Session tool UI changes.
• Session tool gives error message when a session is given an existing name.
• Option to not color chains in the Chain track.
• Option to filter chains in the Chain track on a particular chromosome.

16 October, 2008 (v193)

• Added next/previous item capability to Custom Tracks.
• Added MAF r lines to indicate how MAF regions were defined.
• Automatic updates to upstream FASTA and MAF files.

3 October, 2008 (v192)

• New CGI: hgPal

9 September, 2008 (v190)

• Added MAF as custom track type

22 August, 2008 (v189)

• Fixed snp128 and snp129, so Table Browser filter doesn't show misleading choices.
• Fixed PDF/PS output to not include hidden BLAT results.

8 August, 2008 (v188)

• Added links to other organisms' browsers and DNA from Conservation track details page.

28 July, 2008 (v187)

• Added next-item feature to BED tracks with less than 9 columns
• Always show the "hide all" button even if the track control display is turned off.

11 July, 2008 (v186)

• Display the "hide all" button even if the track control display is turned off
• Added check for custom track existence when saving a session
• Added next-item feature to BED tracks with less than 9 columns
• New link in xenoRefGene details page to browser for other species
• New "D" (DNA) link on Conservation track details page for all species

27 June, 2008 (v185)

• Position/Search box now allows a single-base search (e.g. chr3:12345)

16 June, 2008 (v184)

• Added support for MAF-formatted custom tracks.
• java script now can collapse control button groups without server round trips

Previous Releases

• Genome Browser Scale Bar (in Base Position track).