@article{55f9c4d188f140b3a6d528b75c667ca3,
title = "The UCSC genome browser database: 2008 update",
abstract = "The University of California, Santa Cruz, Genome Browser Database (GBD) provides integrated sequence and annotation data for a large collection of vertebrate and model organism genomes. Seventeen new assemblies have been added to the database in the past year, for a total coverage of 19 vertebrate and 21 invertebrate species as of September 2007. For each assembly, the GBD contains a collection of annotation data aligned to the genomic sequence. Highlights of this year's additions include a 28-species human-based vertebrate conservation annotation, an enhanced UCSC Genes set, and more human variation, MGC, and ENCODE data. The database is optimized for fast interactive performance with a set of web-based tools that may be used to view, manipulate, filter and download the annotation data. New toolset features include the Genome Graphs tool for displaying genome-wide data sets, session saving and sharing, better custom track management, expanded Genome Browser configuration options and a Genome Browser wiki site.",
author = "D. Karolchik and Kuhn, {R. M.} and R. Baertsch and Barber, {G. P.} and H. Clawson and M. Diekhans and B. Giardine and Harte, {R. A.} and Hinrichs, {A. S.} and F. Hsu and Kober, {K. M.} and W. Miller and Pedersen, {J. S.} and A. Pohl and Raney, {B. J.} and B. Rhead and Rosenbloom, {K. R.} and Smith, {K. E.} and M. Stanke and A. Thakkapallayil and H. Trumbower and T. Wang and Zweig, {A. S.} and D. Haussler and Kent, {W. J.}",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank the many collaborators who have contributed data to our project, our Scientific Advisory Board for their valuable advice and recommendations, and our users for their feedback and support. We would also like to acknowledge the dedicated system administrators who have provided an excellent computing environment: Jorge Garcia, Erich Weiler, Chester Manuel and Victoria Lin. This work was funded by National Human Genome Research Institute (2 P41 HG002371-06 to UCSC Center for Genomic Science, 3 P41 HG002371-06S1 ENCODE supplement to UCSC Center for Genomic Science); National Cancer Institute (Contract No. N01-CO-12400 for Mammalian Gene Collection). TW is a Helen Hay Whitney fellow. Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.",
year = "2008",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1093/nar/gkm966",
language = "English",
volume = "36",
pages = "D773--D779",
journal = "Nucleic acids research",
issn = "0305-1048",
number = "SUPPL. 1",
}