We are excited to announce the release of the
Public
Sessions page, the newest way to share your UCSC Genome
Browser snapshots with your colleagues and the world. The Public
Sessions page collects sessions that users have elected to share
publicly. Sessions on this page can be filtered based on assembly,
name, or a phrase from the description. Sessions can also be sorted
based on their popularity or creation date. To add your own sessions
to this Public Sessions page, just check the box under "post in
public listing" on the session management page.
The Genome Browser
session management
page has also received an update with the release of the new Public
Sessions page. Sessions are now arranged in a table, where varying
numbers of sessions can be displayed on a page of this table.
Sessions can now be filtered and ordered based on session name,
primary assembly, and creation date. Clicking on the session name
now displays that session in the Genome Browser. Session details,
such as the name or the description, can be changed using the
"details" button in the new table layout.
The release of the new Public Sessions page also marks a change in
our session expiration policy. We no longer expire sessions and
associated custom tracks four months after their last use. Please
note, however, that the UCSC Genome Browser is not a data storage
service and that we encourage you to keep local copies of your
session contents and custom track data.
For more information about using sessions to share snapshots of the
UCSC Genome Browser, please see the
User
Guide or our blog post, "
How
to share your UCSC screenthoughts."
--
Matthew Speir
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group