UCSC Genome Browser: Platform for Data Display and Integrated Analysis

The UCSC Genome Browser provides a uniform display platform for annotations on any organism, hosting more than 150 assemblies of 90 animals as native data sets and providing a framework for any user to add an organism of choice.  User data in a variety of formats may be displayed alongside UCSC-resident data and intersected with it.

Existing resources on the horse assembly, for example, include Horse RefSeq Genes, mappings of human proteins to the horse genome, and alignments of all genbank mRNAs that pass the homology threshhold from any species to horse.  These may be intersected with user-generated quantitative data, such as RNA-seq, signal strength for histone modification ChIP-seq data or other epigenetic features.  User-generated datasets may also be correlated to each other.  Comparative genomics resources allows leverage of information from other animals and make it easy to navigate to orthologous regions on those other animals' browsers.