Repository details
UCSC Genome Browser
Name of repository
UCSC Genome Browser
Additional name(s)
- University of California Santa Cruz Genome Bioinformatics
- UCSC Genome Bioinformatics
Repository URL
Subject(s)
Description
It is an interactive website offering access to genome sequence data from a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate species and major model organisms, integrated with a large collection of aligned annotations. The Browser is a graphical viewer optimized to support fast interactive performance and is an open-source, web-based tool suite built on top of a MySQL database for rapid visualization, examination, and querying of the data at many levels.
Contact(s)
- administrative: https://genome.ucsc.edu/contacts.html
- administrative: genome@soe.ucsc.edu
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
- RRID:nif-0000-03603
- RRID:SCR_005780
- other:OMICS_00926
- FAIRsharing:10.25504/FAIRsharing.s22qdj
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
Data and/or service provider
- dataProvider
Dates
Started
2009
Institutions (4)
Additional name(s)
- HHMI
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- NCI
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- NHGRI
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- UCSC, CBSE
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
- general
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Policies (1)
Policy Name
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Data access (2)
Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
- registration
Data licenses (3)
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
- registration
Persistent identifier system(s)
- none
Name of the repository software
- unknown
Data citation guideline
Quality management
yes
Application programming interfaces (1)
Remarks
Remarks
A license is required for commercial download and/or installation of the Genome Browser binaries and source code.
Downloading data: https://www.genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/ftp.html
UCSC Genome Browser Mirror Sites see: https://genome.ucsc.edu/mirror.html
Europe: https://genome-euro.ucsc.edu/
Asia: https://genome-asia.ucsc.edu/
Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory : http://genome-mirror.cshl.edu/ This mirror may contain CSHL-generated annotations in addition to the standard UCSC tracks
Entry date
2013-04-17
Last update
2026-01-27
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