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16 August 2012 -
Announcing a Genome Browser for the Medium ground finch
We have released a browser for the Medium ground finch,
Geospiza fortis, reknowned as one of naturalist Charles
Darwin's Galapagos finches. This species, which has been the
subject of many evolutionary studies, is one of a group of
birds that evolved over a few million years from a single
ancestral species into multiple species whose beak sizes and
shapes are specialized for using different food resources. The
phenotypic diversity of these birds contributed to Darwin's
theory of evolution. The significance of this genome assembly is
described in the August 16, 2012,
press release issued by the UCSC Center for
Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE).
The initial Medium ground finch genome assembly (GeoFor_1.0,
UCSC version geoFor1) is the product of a collaboration between
the Genome 10K project and Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) to
sequence 100 vertebrate species, and is the first to be
released in the UCSC Genome Browser. For more information about
the G. fortis genome, see the
NCBI website.
Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available
via the Genome Browser
FTP server or the
Downloads page.
The browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and
collaborators worldwide. See the
Credits
page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals
who contributed to this release. We'd like to thank BGI for
contributing the data for this assembly and acknowledge the
UCSC staff members who released this browser: Hiram Clawson and
Greg Roe.
14 August 2012 - Changes to our website
We are pleased to announce a few changes to the look and feel of the Genome
Browser website. In addition to a new font throughout the site, the first thing you might notice is
a new menu bar across the top of many of the pages. We have reorganized the navigation on our web
applications with you in mind; we hope you find it more intuitive!
Additionally, we greatly simplified the search mechanism by
collapsing all search methods into a single box.
In this box, you can search for chromosomal coordinate ranges, gene names, accession numbers,
keywords, etc. For a complete list of ways to query the browser data, see
Querying the Genome Browser.
As always, if you have questions about the website or the data, please
Contact Us.
16 July 2012 - Tasmanian Devil
assembly now available in Genome Browser:
We are pleased to announce the release of a Genome Browser
for the February 2011 Tasmanian devil assembly, Sarcophilus harrisii
(WTSI version Devil_refv7.0, UCSC version sarHar1).
Read more.
06 July 2012 - Retirement of
hgText CGI:
We are announcing the imminent retirement of the hgText
CGI.
Read more.
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