In the upcoming year, UCSC will continue to extend the GBD to include more species and assembly updates—focusing on primates, model organisms and species of critical importance to evolutionary studies—and more annotation data. We may also provide browser access to several of the low-coverage (2×) assemblies currently included in our Conservation tracks. Following the release of UCSC Genes data for the latest mouse assembly in Fall 2007, updates to both the human and the mouse UCSC Genes annotation will be offered ∼3–4 times per year. We will continue to expand our collection of human variation, disease-related, expression and genome-wide association data, and plan to explore the incorporation of federated data into the browser. Among the enhancements to our display and data-mining tools, we plan to facilitate the use of custom tracks in the Table Browser, extend display features such as the next/previous item navigation to a larger range of tracks, and add a user-annotated wiki track.
