During the upcoming year we will continue to add new and updated genome assemblies for vertebrate organisms as they become available in NCBI’s GenBank repository. We plan to release a preliminary Browser with a minimal annotation set on the new GRCh38/hg38 human assembly in late 2013 or early 2014. New annotation data display types and features will be added as required by new data sets. We plan to extend track hubs to support new file formats, such as the HAL hierarchical multiple alignment format (32), and to allow searching for tracks within a hub. The VAI will be expanded to include more input/upload options, output formats and annotation options.
