Good Afternoon Genome Browser Mirror Site Operators:
Version v487 of the UCSC Genome Browser software has now been released.
Please note: our utilities and CGIs now have an extra dependency on
libcurl If you do not already have libcurl installed on your system (it's
often already there), then you will be unable to use this latest release
until you add it.
The main changes in this release are:
- toolTips now line break correctly
- barChart SVG drawing code is now in javaScript for better use of
- client web browser features
- hubSpace continued development
- better support for GEO URL-encoded links with more informative
- usage message
- Improved the hgConvert and hgLiftOver functions on GenArk hubs.
- Adjust CAPTCHA behavior on hgTables
- Improve the column names for single cell output using combined
- facets and matrix, changed column count to cell count, and column
- val to read count. Also added a new optional tag for trackDb
- singleCellColumnNames off to support old default column names
And data-related changes:
- Panmask track for hg38.
- Mexico Biobank track for hg38
- GenArk assembly count over 45,000 assemblies:
-
https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/hubs/
https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/jksrc.v487.zip
or in our Github repository release that is tagged with the version number:
https://github.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/releases
Beware of fake scam web sites offering up genome browser software downloads.
If you use the GBiB virtual machine with auto-updates enabled, it will
automatically update itself on Sunday. If you have installed your
UCSC Genome Browser server with the GBiC installation script
browserSetup.sh, then you can upgrade it with the command "sudo bash
browserSetup.sh update".
If you have installed your Genome Browser manually:
- You can use the following rsync command to copy the CGI binaries into
- We provide a shell script to update the htdocs directory, htdocs and
- The hgcentral database contains our curated list of public track hubs
and pointers to BLAT servers per database and should be updated regularly.
We have released a new MySQL dump of this database:
https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/hgcentral.sql
A license is required for commercial download and/or installation of
the Genome Browser binaries and source code. No license is needed for
academic, nonprofit, and personal use. More information on our licensing
page:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/license/
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to write back to
this genome-mirror mail list.
Hiram Clawson
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute