The workshop will take place on Thursday, September 19th, 2024 and is free to UPenn graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff.

Registration is required, and seating is limited. The workshop will be held in the Biotech Commons Holman Reading Room.

The UCSC Genome Browser is an omics data consolidator, graphical viewer, and general bioinformatics resource for the genomics community. With the ever-increasing amounts of data being generated each year, tools like the UCSC Genome Browser are increasingly playing a key step in data analysis and interpretation. The Genome Browser resource services over 1.4 million users per year, and offers over 6000 tracks on the two latest human GRCh assemblies alone, GRCh38/hg38 and GRCh37/hg19. There are also over 200 assemblies available on the Genome Browser. The resource supports over 30 data formats such as bed/bigBed, wig/bigWig, VCF and GTF/GFF, thus allowing users to not only display their own annotations, but also to visualize data from a large number of sources in a single location.