UCSC Genome Bioinformatics: Training

Getting Help with the UCSC Genome Browser

Host a Genome Browser Workshop!

New timeslots are now available to host a Genome Browser workshop at your institution. Thanks to the funding support of NHGRI, we offer hands-on Genome Browser training onsite at your institution, tailored to your audience's level of expertise.

For more information or to submit a request to host a workshop, please visit our signup.

Online Training and Tutorials:

NEW ! Videos ! YouTube Channel

Finding a list of genes in a region.
Finding exon numbers.
Finding SNPs in a gene.
Finding SNPs upstream from a gene.
Produced at UCSC

Nature: Guide to the UCSC Genome Browser
Fishing for genes in the UCSC Browser (pdf)
The UCSC genome browser and associated tools
UCSC genome browser tutorial
Step-by-step tutorial presented at ASHG 2009 annual meeting - basic browser navigation and functionality in the context of interpreting clinical genetics reports.
Step-by-step tutorial presented at ABRF 2010 annual meeting - how to convert files and display high-throughput sequencing results.
Step-by-step tutorial presented at ASHG 2014 annual meeting - includes Custom Tracks and Table Browser queries with and without filters.
External

Open Helix tutorial and training materials
Teaching bioinformatics and neuroinformatics by using free web-based tools - student-level tutorial that demonstrates the combined use of several major bioinformatic tools (including the UCSC Genome Browser) in answering a series of related research questions

User's Guides for Tools in the Genome Browser:

Contacting Us and Mailing Lists:

Quick Links:

Genome Browser home page
Log of released data (including annotation tracks and complete assemblies)
Software and data credits

Mirror Sites and Source Code:

Associated Publications and Documents: