Track data hubs enable visualization of user-defined genome-wide annotations on the UCSC Genome Browser.
CONCLUSIONS
Track data hubs provide an efficient mechanism for visualizing remotely hosted Internet-accessible collections of genome annotations. Hub datasets can be organized, configured and fully integrated into the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser and accessed through the familiar browser interface. For the first time, individuals can use the complete browser feature set to view custom datasets without the overhead of setting up and maintaining a mirror.


METHODS
Source code for the BigWig, BigBed and Genome Browser software is freely available for non-commercial use at http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/jksrc.zip, implemented in C and supported on Linux. Binaries for the BigWig and BigBed creation and parsing utilities may be downloaded at http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/. Binary Alignment/Map (BAM) and Variant Call Format (VCF)/tabix utilities are available from http://samtools.sourceforge.net/ and http://vcftools.sourceforge.net/. The UCSC Genome Browser is publicly accessible at http://genome.ucsc.edu.
Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA and Department of Genetics, Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA.
Brian J
BJ
Raney
Timothy R
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Dreszer
Galt P
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Barber
Hiram
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Clawson
Pauline A
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Fujita
Ting
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Wang
Ngan
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Nguyen
Benedict
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Paten
Ann S
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Zweig
Donna
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Karolchik
W James
WJ
Kent
D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software