UCSC Genome Browser
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The UCSC Genome Browser is a public, freely available, open-source web-based graphical viewer for displaying genome sequences and their annotations.
We are pleased to announce the release of the EVA SNP Release 8 tracks, now available for 41 assemblies and covering 945 million variants.
Learn more at http://genome.ucsc.e...
Learn more at http://genome.ucsc.e...
December 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We are pleased to announce the release of the EVA SNP Release 8 tracks, now available for 41 assemblies and covering 945 million variants.
Learn more at http://genome.ucsc.e...
Learn more at http://genome.ucsc.e...
The new public hub from @GHFC_lab displays genes connected with autism and neurodevelopmental disorders. It additionally displays variants from diagnosed autistic individuals and their undiagnosed families. View it on the Genome Browser here: https://bit.ly/4pUpC1e.
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The new public hub from @GHFC_lab displays genes connected with autism and neurodevelopmental disorders. It additionally displays variants from diagnosed autistic individuals and their undiagnosed families. View it on the Genome Browser here: https://bit.ly/4pUpC1e.
We recently added a public track hub of "cancer effect size" across 20 TCGA cancer cohorts. Thank you to @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social and his lab at Yale University for providing the data. View it on the Genome Browser here: https://bit.ly/496Cx92.
December 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We recently added a public track hub of "cancer effect size" across 20 TCGA cancer cohorts. Thank you to @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social and his lab at Yale University for providing the data. View it on the Genome Browser here: https://bit.ly/496Cx92.
QuickLift is now available for beta testing. It maps genome annotations to another assembly (LiftOver) on demand, in real time, lifting only the annotations in the currently visible region. As a beta feature, it may contain bugs. More details at
QuickLift_guide
BETA: QuickLift is in beta testing, which means it is not polished and will contain bugs. See the Bugs section at the end of this page for known issues. If you would like to report a bug or have any questions, please contact us at genome-www@soe.ucsc.edu. Overview An alignment between two DNA se...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
QuickLift is now available for beta testing. It maps genome annotations to another assembly (LiftOver) on demand, in real time, lifting only the annotations in the currently visible region. As a beta feature, it may contain bugs. More details at
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📢 We're hiring a Genomics Senior Systems Architect!
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
📢 We're hiring a Genomics Senior Systems Architect!
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
New gnomAD Missense Deleteriousness Prediction by Constraint (MPC) track for hg19. It shows a score that identifies missense-depleted regions using rare missense variation in 125,748 gnomAD v2.1.1 exomes. OE values: yellow=low, blue-purple=high. More at genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
New gnomAD Missense Deleteriousness Prediction by Constraint (MPC) track for hg19. It shows a score that identifies missense-depleted regions using rare missense variation in 125,748 gnomAD v2.1.1 exomes. OE values: yellow=low, blue-purple=high. More at genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
We are pleased to announce Release 2 of the Varaico Variants track and a new Varaico Variants (suppl) track for hg38/hg19. The update brings the track to over 5.5M variants, and the new suppl track shows variants from supplementary files. Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
We are pleased to announce Release 2 of the Varaico Variants track and a new Varaico Variants (suppl) track for hg38/hg19. The update brings the track to over 5.5M variants, and the new suppl track shows variants from supplementary files. Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
A new hub is available for the new T2T Rhesus and Crab-eating macaque genomes. The hub includes tracks for copy number variation, assembly validation, alignments, and more. Thanks to @ShilongZha297 for creating this hub. View it here: genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-...
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A new hub is available for the new T2T Rhesus and Crab-eating macaque genomes. The hub includes tracks for copy number variation, assembly validation, alignments, and more. Thanks to @ShilongZha297 for creating this hub. View it here: genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-...
We are happy to announce the release of the GENCODE "knownGene" V49 (hg38/hg19) and VM38 (mm39) gene tracks.
Learn more about the release from the following news post:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Learn more about the release from the following news post:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We are happy to announce the release of the GENCODE "knownGene" V49 (hg38/hg19) and VM38 (mm39) gene tracks.
Learn more about the release from the following news post:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Learn more about the release from the following news post:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
We are pleased to announce the hg38 SpliceAI Wildtype tracks. These tracks show the scores for the genome sequence itself, without variants, from predicted splice donor and splice acceptor sites. More at bit.ly/spliceAIWt
October 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We are pleased to announce the hg38 SpliceAI Wildtype tracks. These tracks show the scores for the genome sequence itself, without variants, from predicted splice donor and splice acceptor sites. More at bit.ly/spliceAIWt
We are happy to announce the hg38 Panmask Easy 151b Regions track. It contains a set of sample-agnostic easy regions where short-read variant calling reaches high accuracy and can be used to filter variant calls for clinical or research samples. More at bit.ly/Panmask
September 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We are happy to announce the hg38 Panmask Easy 151b Regions track. It contains a set of sample-agnostic easy regions where short-read variant calling reaches high accuracy and can be used to filter variant calls for clinical or research samples. More at bit.ly/Panmask
We are excited to announce the release of the CoLoRSdb small and structural variant tracks for the human assemblies GRCh38/hg38 and CHM13/hs1.
Learn more about this release at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Learn more about this release at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
September 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
We are excited to announce the release of the CoLoRSdb small and structural variant tracks for the human assemblies GRCh38/hg38 and CHM13/hs1.
Learn more about this release at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Learn more about this release at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
We are pleased to announce the release of the Developmental Disorders Genotype-to-Phenotype (DDG2P) track for hg19 and hg38. The DDG2P track displays genes associated with severe developmental disorders.
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
September 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We are pleased to announce the release of the Developmental Disorders Genotype-to-Phenotype (DDG2P) track for hg19 and hg38. The DDG2P track displays genes associated with severe developmental disorders.
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
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September 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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We are excited to announce the release of the MaveDB Experiment Heatmaps and Alignment track for hg38. Each heatmap shows the results of many small substitutions that were tested within a gene to examine their functional consequences.
Learn more at:
http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq
Learn more at:
http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq
August 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We are excited to announce the release of the MaveDB Experiment Heatmaps and Alignment track for hg38. Each heatmap shows the results of many small substitutions that were tested within a gene to examine their functional consequences.
Learn more at:
http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq
Learn more at:
http://bit.ly/4lCIlLq
New Capture long-seq (CLS) long-read lncRNAs tracks are available for hg38 and mm10. These tracks represent the results of targeted long-read RNA sequencing aimed at identifying lowly expressed lncRNAs.
See our news for more: bit.ly/CLSlongRead
See our news for more: bit.ly/CLSlongRead
August 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New Capture long-seq (CLS) long-read lncRNAs tracks are available for hg38 and mm10. These tracks represent the results of targeted long-read RNA sequencing aimed at identifying lowly expressed lncRNAs.
See our news for more: bit.ly/CLSlongRead
See our news for more: bit.ly/CLSlongRead
We are pleased to announce new PanelApp Australia tracks for hg38/hg19 in the PanelApp composite track. These display expert, crowdsourced diagnostic disease panels for genes, CNVs, and STRs, with data distinct from the Genomics England PanelApp. More at bit.ly/PanelAppAustr...
August 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We are pleased to announce new PanelApp Australia tracks for hg38/hg19 in the PanelApp composite track. These display expert, crowdsourced diagnostic disease panels for genes, CNVs, and STRs, with data distinct from the Genomics England PanelApp. More at bit.ly/PanelAppAustr...
We are pleased to announce our latest public hub, UniversalEPI ENCODE for hg38. It shows Hi-C interaction predictions based on ENCODE ATAC-seq data, generated by UniversalEPI: bit.ly/UniversalEPI_...
Thanks to the Boeva Lab at ETH Zurich for creating this hub.
Thanks to the Boeva Lab at ETH Zurich for creating this hub.
August 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We are pleased to announce our latest public hub, UniversalEPI ENCODE for hg38. It shows Hi-C interaction predictions based on ENCODE ATAC-seq data, generated by UniversalEPI: bit.ly/UniversalEPI_...
Thanks to the Boeva Lab at ETH Zurich for creating this hub.
Thanks to the Boeva Lab at ETH Zurich for creating this hub.
We are excited to announce the release of the PubTator Variants track for human assemblies, hg38 and hg19. These tracks were created using PubTator3 data and are freely accessible to the research community.
Read more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Read more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
August 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We are excited to announce the release of the PubTator Variants track for human assemblies, hg38 and hg19. These tracks were created using PubTator3 data and are freely accessible to the research community.
Read more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Read more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
We’re excited to announce support for bedMethyl and bigMethyl, new track formats for visualizing base-resolution DNA methylation from bisulfite sequencing or similar methods at single-base resolution across the genome in the UCSC Genome Browser. More info: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
July 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We’re excited to announce support for bedMethyl and bigMethyl, new track formats for visualizing base-resolution DNA methylation from bisulfite sequencing or similar methods at single-base resolution across the genome in the UCSC Genome Browser. More info: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
We’re adding two new UI features to the Genome Browser: a gear icon in the grey bar and an "X" to quickly remove tracks. We’d love your feedback—thanks for helping us improve!
🔗 forms.gle/s2QnMrbEYu...
🔗 forms.gle/s2QnMrbEYu...
July 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We’re adding two new UI features to the Genome Browser: a gear icon in the grey bar and an "X" to quickly remove tracks. We’d love your feedback—thanks for helping us improve!
🔗 forms.gle/s2QnMrbEYu...
🔗 forms.gle/s2QnMrbEYu...
We are happy to announce the release of the Bionano DLE-1 track for human assemblies hg38 and hg19. These tracks show the CTTAAG sites used by the Bionano Optical Genome Mapping system, an assay to detect structural variants.
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
July 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We are happy to announce the release of the Bionano DLE-1 track for human assemblies hg38 and hg19. These tracks show the CTTAAG sites used by the Bionano Optical Genome Mapping system, an assay to detect structural variants.
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
New ENCODE4 long-read RNA-seq transcripts track for hg38 and mm10. Triplets (e.g. [1,1,3]) indicate start site, exon combination, and stop site for each transcript. Enrichment scores show how these change across tissue and cell line samples.
Read more: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Read more: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
July 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New ENCODE4 long-read RNA-seq transcripts track for hg38 and mm10. Triplets (e.g. [1,1,3]) indicate start site, exon combination, and stop site for each transcript. Enrichment scores show how these change across tissue and cell line samples.
Read more: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Read more: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
We have two new pathogenicity prediction score tracks available in our Deleteriousness Predictions super track: MCAP and MutScore!
Both are aimed at interpreting the pathogenicity of variants in a clinical setting.
See our news for more: bit.ly/UCSCmutScoreMCAP
Both are aimed at interpreting the pathogenicity of variants in a clinical setting.
See our news for more: bit.ly/UCSCmutScoreMCAP
July 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
We have two new pathogenicity prediction score tracks available in our Deleteriousness Predictions super track: MCAP and MutScore!
Both are aimed at interpreting the pathogenicity of variants in a clinical setting.
See our news for more: bit.ly/UCSCmutScoreMCAP
Both are aimed at interpreting the pathogenicity of variants in a clinical setting.
See our news for more: bit.ly/UCSCmutScoreMCAP
We are happy to announce the release of the Unusually Conserved Regions track for GRCh38/hg38. For more information about the release, please read the news announcement:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
July 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We are happy to announce the release of the Unusually Conserved Regions track for GRCh38/hg38. For more information about the release, please read the news announcement:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...