UCSC Genome Browser
The UCSC Genome Browser is a public, freely available, open-source web-based graphical viewer for displaying genome sequences and their annotations.
- We are happy to announce the recount3 tracks for hg38 and mm10: uniformly processed RNA-seq data from multiple studies, featuring intron data, split read counts, and splice junction motifs for cross-study comparisons and meta-analyses. Learn more at: bit.ly/recount3_track
- We are excited to introduce Hub Space, a new hosting service that enables users to upload and visualize track hub files directly on the UCSC Genome Browser without relying on third-party hosting services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or AWS. Learn more: bit.ly/3NTZBkq
- We are excited to announce that the Genome Browser now includes a dynamic track group that automatically displays all currently visible tracks in one convenient location. The group has more than 32 tracks available for a genome assembly. Read more here: bit.ly/4qj1jt7
- We are proud to announce a new ENCODE Registry of cCREs (candidate Cis-Regulatory Elements) track for hg38 as described in Moore et al., Nature 2026. See our news for more: bit.ly/ucscENCODE4cCREs
- We recently added Neanderthal and Denisova variant tracks for GRCh38/hg38. Thanks to the Archaic Sequence Hub (http://www.arcseqhub...) for compiling the data and making it available. View the data on the Genome Browser: bit.ly/ancientHominids.
- 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...
- 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: 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: 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
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- Please take a moment to tell us how you use the Genome Browser: surveymars.com/q/mnb... Your feedback supports future improvements and our continued funding.
- 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: 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
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- We turn 25 today! July 7th marks the 25th anniversary of the human genome going online and the start of the UCSC Genome Browser. Then vs. now, we have 165k monthly visitors, and our codebase is over three million lines of code. See our news for more: bit.ly/genomeBrowser...
- We have a new training page with updated tutorials covering our most popular tools. Each includes an annotated screenshot, guided walkthroughs, and an interactive click-through tutorial. See our news for more: bit.ly/genomeBrowser...
- We are pleased to announce the release of the All GENCODE tracks for hg19, hg38, and mm39. These tracks correspond with the Ensembl 114 release. Learn more about the release from the following news post: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
- We are happy to announce the release of the EVA SNP Release 7 tracks, now available for 40 assemblies and covering nearly 910 million variants. Learn more at http://genome.ucsc.e....
- Are you at #eshg2025 ? Visit us at booth 226! We will also be co-presenting a workshop on Monday, 5/26, with @ensembl at 14:15.
- We are excited to announce the release of the Varaico tracks for human assemblies hg38 and hg19. Varaico stands for "Variation Research Advancing Insight in Complex Organisms". Varaico was created using literature mining, similar to AVADA. Learn more at: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
- New tracks now available: GENCODE "knownGene" V48 for human (hg38/hg19) and VM37 for mouse (mm39). Read more about this release in this news post: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
- We have a new Recommended Track Set (RTS), Exon Relevance, and a new track, gnomAD Proportion Expression Across Transcript Scores (pext) for hg38. The pext track shows @gnomad-project.bsky.social data in combination with GTExV10 to compute a metric quantifying isoform expression for variants.
- We are happy to announce an update to the VISTA Enhancers tracks for hg38, hg19, mm39, and mm10. Learn more about the release from the following news post: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
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