A Genome Browser look at 2024 and support over the holidays

[Gerardo Perez]

Hello Everyone,

We hope everybody had a good and productive year. As we are coming close to the end of 2024, we would like to thank our users for their continued interest in the Browser and inform everyone about our limited availability during these upcoming holidays. 

The UCSC campus will be closed from Monday, December 23, 2024, through Wednesday, January 1, 2025. During this time, we will be monitoring the mailing lists for urgent messages, but many questions may go unanswered until early January. Below is a list of the available resources in case anyone needs assistance.

General Genome Browser questions: gen...@soe.ucsc.edu

Private list (not publicly archived or searchable) for questions containing sensitive information: genom...@soe.ucsc.edu

Questions regarding setting up a mirror site or troubleshooting an existing mirror site: genome...@soe.ucsc.edu

You may find the answer to your question in our archived mailing list forums:

Google Group forum: https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/forum/#!forum/genome

Google Group Mirror site forum: https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/forum/#!forum/genome-mirror

You could also do a Genome Browser search, which includes results in our help docs and public hubs. Here are some Genome Browser releases you may have missed:

• Our latest publication which also includes a summary of our year

• 3 new public hubs 

• New interactive variant interpretation tutorial

• New pop-up dialogue box for item details

• New groups feature for track hubs

• New download track data in view

• Over 23 updated or new data tracks for human and mouse, including:

• Latest GENCODE gene models for hg19/hg38/mm39

• First update to hg19's UCSC Genes track since 2013

• New hg38 HPRC track group and data

• New gnomAD v4.1 tracks for hg38

• New CRISPR Targets for T2T CHM13v2.0/hs1

• Illumina SpliceAI tracks for hg38 and hg19

• CADD v1.7 and ClinGen CSpec tracks for hg19 and hg38

•  Variants of Concern SARS-CoV-2 track updated with Omicron variants

• EVA SNP release 6 for 37 assemblies

• And much more!

Thank you again for your continued support. We strive to provide the best tool for our users and always want to hear how we can improve. If you have any suggestions you would like to submit to the Genome Browser, such as novel datasets we could adopt or features you would like to see, you may do so here: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgUserSuggestion

Happy holidays!

 - The Browser Team