New "Tandem Repeat Variation" tracks on hg38. Browse STR/VNTR data from WebSTR, STRchive, TRExplorer, ToMMo, and 1000 Genomes ONT, plus gnomAD STR genotypes at 87 disease loci. Explore allele frequencies across diverse populations.
Read more at: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
Heatmap display in the UCSC Genome Browser
New heatmap display mode for bigBed tracks in the UCSC Genome Browser! Visualize multi-sample quantitative data as color-coded grids directly in genomic context, great for variant effects, expression & methylation. See our docs & try it out: bit.ly/ucscGBheatmap
The supertrack configuration page has new controls for track visibility. "Apply visibility" buttons set visibility across visible or all tracks, Hide/Dense/Squish/Pack/Full buttons replace dropdowns, folder icons indicate container tracks.
More info: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
We are excited to announce the release of the Human Methylation Atlas Summary and Signals tracks for hg38 and hg19. The tracks display genome-wide DNA methylation profiles across 39 primary human cell types from 205 healthy tissue samples.
Learn more at bit.ly/humanMethylat...
We've added two gnomAD coverage tracks on human hg38:
gnomAD v4 Exome Coverage — mean/median depth & sample % at 1X–100X thresholds across exome samples.
gnomAD v3 Genome Coverage — same metrics for 71,702 whole-genome samples.
Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
New Recent Genomes & Connected Hub Assemblies lists on the Gateway page, plus genome search across more tools. Recent Genomes also appears in the blue bar under Genomes. Species Tree now hidden by default (click “Show species tree” to view).
More info at genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
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We are happy to announce our new public hub, VRMOD CRM for hg38/mm10. It shows experimentally defined, predicted, and epigenomically supported cis-regulatory elements across tissues & cell types: bit.ly/VRMOD_CRMs
Thanks to Zhao Lab at WashU Medicine for creating this hub.
We are happy to announce the JASPAR 2026 tracks for hg38, mm39, danRer11, galGal6, dm6, ce11, ci3, and sacCer3, which represent genome-wide predicted binding sites for transcription factors with binding profiles in the JASPAR CORE collection.
More info: http://bit.ly/JASPAR
A new Phased Variants container track for hg38 and hg19, and brings phased individual-level genotype data from: Human Diversity Genome Project, Simons Genome Diversity Project, gnomad's HGDP+1000 Genomes callset, and the Mexico Biobank.
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/4rxS60Q
We are happy to announce the recount3 tracks for hg38 and mm10: uniformly processed RNA-seq data from multiple studies, featuring intron data, split read counts, and splice junction motifs for cross-study comparisons and meta-analyses.
Learn more at: bit.ly/recount3_track
We are excited to introduce Hub Space, a new hosting service that enables users to upload and visualize track hub files directly on the UCSC Genome Browser without relying on third-party hosting services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or AWS.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NTZBkq
We are excited to announce that the Genome Browser now includes a dynamic track group that automatically displays all currently visible tracks in one convenient location.
The group has more than 32 tracks available for a genome assembly.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/4qj1jt7
These data display regions identified by biochemical signatures predicted to regulate gene expression as promoters, enhancers, or other regulatory elements.
We would like to thank Zhiping Weng, and Jill Moore for their work in producing and displaying these data.
We are proud to announce a new ENCODE Registry of cCREs (candidate Cis-Regulatory Elements) track for hg38 as described in Moore et al., Nature 2026.
See our news for more: bit.ly/ucscENCODE4cCREs
We recently added Neanderthal and Denisova variant tracks for GRCh38/hg38. Thanks to the Archaic Sequence Hub (http://www.arcseqhub for compiling the data and making it available. View the data on the Genome Browser: bit.ly/ancientHominids.
We are pleased to announce the release of the EVA SNP Release 8 tracks, now available for 41 assemblies and covering 945 million variants.
Learn more at http://genome.ucsc.e
The new public hub from @GHFC_lab displays genes connected with autism and neurodevelopmental disorders. It additionally displays variants from diagnosed autistic individuals and their undiagnosed families. View it on the Genome Browser here: https://bit.ly/4pUpC1e
We recently added a public track hub of "cancer effect size" across 20 TCGA cancer cohorts. Thank you to @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social and his lab at Yale University for providing the data. View it on the Genome Browser here: https://bit.ly/496Cx92
We would love to hear your feedback on QuickLift and welcome any suggestions you may have for improving the QuickLift guide. Your input will help us refine QuickLift and shape the official help page. Please feel free to write to us at genome-www@soe.ucsc.edu.
QuickLift is now available for beta testing. It maps genome annotations to another assembly (LiftOver) on demand, in real time, lifting only the annotations in the currently visible region. As a beta feature, it may contain bugs. More details at
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📢 We're hiring a Genomics Senior Systems Architect!
The incumbent will be responsible for the Genomics Institute's complex computing infrastructure, including central and departmental systems, high-throughput storage, web systems, & cloud environments.
Apply at jobs.ucsc.edu using job code 82880.
New gnomAD Missense Deleteriousness Prediction by Constraint (MPC) track for hg19. It shows a score that identifies missense-depleted regions using rare missense variation in 125,748 gnomAD v2.1.1 exomes. OE values: yellow=low, blue-purple=high. More at genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
We are pleased to announce Release 2 of the Varaico Variants track and a new Varaico Variants (suppl) track for hg38/hg19. The update brings the track to over 5.5M variants, and the new suppl track shows variants from supplementary files. Learn more at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
A new hub is available for the new T2T Rhesus and Crab-eating macaque genomes. The hub includes tracks for copy number variation, assembly validation, alignments, and more. Thanks to @ShilongZha297 for creating this hub. View it here: genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-...
We are happy to announce the release of the GENCODE "knownGene" V49 (hg38/hg19) and VM38 (mm39) gene tracks.
Learn more about the release from the following news post:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...
These tracks are useful in combination with the variants track for evaluating new transcript models. They can be used to assess potential exon boundaries or possible splice acceptor sites.
We are pleased to announce the hg38 SpliceAI Wildtype tracks. These tracks show the scores for the genome sequence itself, without variants, from predicted splice donor and splice acceptor sites. More at bit.ly/spliceAIWt
We are happy to announce the hg38 Panmask Easy 151b Regions track. It contains a set of sample-agnostic easy regions where short-read variant calling reaches high accuracy and can be used to filter variant calls for clinical or research samples. More at bit.ly/Panmask
We are excited to announce the release of the CoLoRSdb small and structural variant tracks for the human assemblies GRCh38/hg38 and CHM13/hs1.
Learn more about this release at:
genome.ucsc.edu/gold...