Getting Help with the UCSC Genome Browser

Host a Genome Browser Workshop! Map

Do you suspect that there is a lot more to the Genome Browser than you have been using? Timeslots are available to host a Genome Browser workshop at your institution. Thanks to the funding support of NHGRI, we are able to offer hands-on Genome Browser training onsite at your institution at very affordable prices, tailored to your audience's level of expertise. Host — NOTE: virtual tutorials are available while coronavirus limits travel. Please use the Host link to contact us.

For more information or to submit a request to host a workshop, please visit our sign-up page.

Can't host? Catch one of our training sessions in your area:

October 14-16, 2021	Helix Biogen Institute Training Course. ~~Nigeria~~ -> virtual
October 18, 2021	ASHG-sponsored virtual Open House. Meet the Browser staff. Bring questions.
October 29, 2021	UCSF virtual
further:	\| PIDTC \| MBSJ \| PAG22 \| ASHG \| ESHG22

Online training and tutorials

Our video tutorials address some common questions we've gathered from our mailing list. Along the way we try to show you interesting features of the Browser you may not have found on your own.

Visit our YouTube channel or use the links below.

Video tutorials

Making Links, Part One: Understanding the URL. [transcript]
Making Links, Part Two: Jump into genes. [transcript]
Making Links, Part Three: Composites, custom tracks, spreadsheets. [transcript]
Coronavirus Basics: Coronavirus Browser SARS-CoV-2. [transcript]
Browser Basics, Part One: Getting around in the Browser. [transcript]
Browser Basics, Part Two: Configuring the Browser. [transcript]
Browser Basics, Part Three: Configuration + DNA navigation. [transcript]
Saving and sharing sessions in the Browser. [transcript]
Controlling visibility of data tracks in the Browser. [transcript]
Using the isPCR tool (isPCR) in the UCSC Genome Browser. [transcript]
dbSNP resources in the UCSC Genome Browser database. [transcript]
Using the UCSC Genome Browser Data Integrator. [transcript]

Video tutorials

Finding a list of genes in a region. [transcript]
Finding exon numbers. [transcript]
Finding all SNPs in a gene. [transcript]
Finding SNPs upstream from a gene. [transcript]
Find which tables belong to a data track. [transcript]
Identifying codon numbers in a gene. [transcript]
Obtaining exon coordinates and sequences. [transcript]
Multi-Region View: Exon-only display mode. [transcript]
Multi-Region View: Alternate haplotypes. [transcript]
Multi-Region View: Discontinuous regions. [transcript]
How-to: Genome Browser in the Cloud.
How-to: Genome Browser Gateway.

External resources

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

Getting Help with the UCSC Genome Browser

Online training and tutorials

Video tutorials

Video tutorials

Other content produced at UCSC

External resources

User's guides for tools in the Genome Browser

Contact and mailing list information

Mirroring and source code

Associated publications and announcements

Various Help pages for parts of the Genome Browser