The UCSC Genome Browser Database

Karolchik, D.
Baertsch, R.
Diekhans, M.
Furey, T. S.
Hinrichs, A.
Lu, Y. T.
Roskin, K. M.
Schwartz, M.
Sugnet, C. W.
Thomas, D. J.
Weber, R. J.
Haussler, D.
Kent, W. J.

Genome Bioinformatics Group, The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), School of Engineering, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077, USA

Received August 15, 2002; Revised and Accepted October 27, 2002

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Nucleic Acids Research 31(1):p 51-54, January 1, 2003.

The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser Database is an up to date source for genome sequence data integrated with a large collection of related annotations. The database is optimized to support fast interactive performance with the web-based UCSC Genome Browser, a tool built on top of the database for rapid visualization and querying of the data at many levels. The annotations for a given genome are displayed in the browser as a series of tracks aligned with the genomic sequence. Sequence data and annotations may also be viewed in a text-based tabular format or downloaded as tab-delimited flat files. The Genome Browser Database, browsing tools and downloadable data files can all be found on the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics website (http://genome.ucsc.edu), which also contains links to documentation and related technical information.