New Data Integrator Released!

[Matthew Speir]

Have you ever wished that the Table Browser could associate your custom
track items with some other track, while retaining the item names from
both? We have released a new tool that can do just that, and more: the
Data Integrator.

Using the Data Integrator you can select up to five tracks, including
custom tracks and hub tracks, and output tab-separated text that
contains all the fields from both the first track and the overlapping
items from the other track(s). If you need only a subset of the fields
from your selected tracks, the Data Integrator allows you to choose
which fields to include in the output. You can also query your current
Genome Browser position, search for positions of items such as genes,
SNPs, etc. by name, query over a set of up to 1000 positions, and even
retrieve genome-wide data (subject to data size). The Data Integrator
output can be viewed in your web browser window or downloaded to an
optionally gzip-compressed file. Look for "Data Integrator" in the
Genome Browser Tools menu (top blue bar) if you'd like to try it out.

For more information about the Data Integrator's capabilities and usage,
see the user's guide:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/hgIntegratorHelp.html. As always,
we welcome questions and feedback on our public mailing list:
gen...@soe.ucsc.edu

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Matthew Speir
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group