New features will include support for Binary Sequence Alignment/Map (BAM) (36) as a custom track file format so that high-coverage sequencing read alignments from 1000 Genomes and other sequencing projects can be displayed in the browser. This will make it possible to view the underlying data from which SNPs and CNVs were called. We plan to investigate high performance solutions for mapping, visualizing and analyzing next-generation sequencing data. We are working on enhancements to the Genome Browser user interface: drag-and-drop track reordering, functionality to navigate the main browser display by horizontal drag-scrolling, and a new track-search interface to help users locate data useful to them.
