The UCSC Genome Browser integrates information from a wide variety of genomic resources, including gene predictions; disease associations from resources such as HGMD, OMIM and locus-specific databases; gene-expression data; copy-number variation; comparative genomics; SNPs; HapMap data; microarray mappings; and histone- and DNA- modification data.

Please join us for this UCSC Genome Browser workshop in which Robert Kuhn, PhD, Associate Director, UCSC Genome Browser, will highlight new and somewhat obscure but useful features.  Saving and sharing sessions, for example, is one of the most powerful, yet not widely appreciated features of the Browser.  You can save the state of the Browser for future reference or as a stable pointer to share with others.  A very new feature now allows you to share something interesting with everyone.  A variety of Custom Tracks data types will also be demonstrated.

Another new feature he will highlight is the multi-region exon-only mode that allows you to suppress display of introns and intergenic regions.  This is especially useful for interpreting RNA-seq data and whole-exome sequencing.  Another of the multi-region modes allows display of selected genes that do not have to be contiguous on the genome.

Bring your laptops and your questions!