该UCSC基因组浏览器数据库:2024年更新更新
Brian J Raney1, Galt P Barber1, Anna Benet-Pagès2,3
1Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Nucleic acids research
|November 12, 2023
概括
该UCSC基因组浏览器增强了基因组数据的访问,新的人类泛基因组和病毒基因组信息. 这些更新扩大了它对全球研究人员的实用性.
科学领域:
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 计算生物学 计算生物学
背景情况:
- 该UCSC基因组浏览器是一个广泛使用的网络工具,用于基因组可视化和分析.
- 它提供了对众多基因组组合的注释数据的访问.
研究的目的:
- 报告UCSC基因组浏览器的最新更新和新功能.
- 突出扩展数据供应和改进的基因组表示.
主要方法:
- 整合了来自人类泛基因组参考联盟的新数据.
- 包括病毒基因组,包括SARS-CoV-2.
- 将GenArk基因组系统扩展为1200个新基因组.
- 增加了9个新的用户贡献的轨道枢纽.
- 释放29个新的人类基因组轨迹和11个新的小鼠基因组轨迹.
主要成果:
- 通过新基因组的添加增加了基因组表示的多样性.
- 通过公共轨道枢纽增强对用户生成数据的支持.
- 更广泛,更深入的基因组知识与全球用户群共享.
- 对人类泛基因组和病毒基因组的扩展数据.
结论:
- 该UCSC基因组浏览器继续发展为基因组研究的综合资源.
- 最近的更新显著提高了可用的基因组数据的广度和深度.
- 这些改进支持越来越多的全球基因组分析用户社区.
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