- Tyner, Cath;
- Barber, Galt P;
- Casper, Jonathan;
- Clawson, Hiram;
- Diekhans, Mark;
- Eisenhart, Christopher;
- Fischer, Clayton M;
- Gibson, David;
- Gonzalez, Jairo Navarro;
- Guruvadoo, Luvina;
- Haeussler, Maximilian;
- Heitner, Steve;
- Hinrichs, Angie S;
- Karolchik, Donna;
- Lee, Brian T;
- Lee, Christopher M;
- Nejad, Parisa;
- Raney, Brian J;
- Rosenbloom, Kate R;
- Speir, Matthew L;
- Villarreal, Chris;
- Vivian, John;
- Zweig, Ann S;
- Haussler, David;
- Kuhn, Robert M;
- Kent, W James
Since its 2001 debut, the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/) team has provided continuous support to the international genomics and biomedical communities through a web-based, open source platform designed for the fast, scalable display of sequence alignments and annotations landscaped against a vast collection of quality reference genome assemblies. The browser's publicly accessible databases are the backbone of a rich, integrated bioinformatics tool suite that includes a graphical interface for data queries and downloads, alignment programs, command-line utilities and more. This year's highlights include newly designed home and gateway pages; a new 'multi-region' track display configuration for exon-only, gene-only and custom regions visualization; new genome browsers for three species (brown kiwi, crab-eating macaque and Malayan flying lemur); eight updated genome assemblies; extended support for new data types such as CRAM, RNA-seq expression data and long-range chromatin interaction pairs; and the unveiling of a new supported mirror site in Japan.