UCSC Genome Browser -- Assembly Hubs: Display Any Organism

Due to the explosion in the number of sequenced organisms now available, including plants, the Browser features a mechanism for loading the DNA sequence of any organism, called an assembly hub. Assembly hubs allow a user to independently display genomes not in the primary UCSC collection, while still including the full capability of the Genome Browser, as well as enabling features such as BLAT sequence similarity searches.

This workshop includes a demonstration of an assembly hub's architecture and a glimpse at a large project in which we intend to mass-produce assembly hubs for many organisms not currently supported on the Browser.