COVID-19 & UCSC’s response to the public health emergency

The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is responding to the urgency of supporting biomedical research aimed at developing treatments and a vaccine for this devastating illness by fast-tracking visualization of genome sequences and analyses in the UCSC Genome Browser for SARS-Cov-2.

Moreover, they are incorporating relevant biomedical datasets such as single-cell lung gene expression into the UCSC Cell Browser, and are creating data tracks of COVID-19 annotations in the Human Genome Browsers as datasets become publicly available. These annotations can further understanding of the human genetic determinants of infection susceptibility, disease severity, and outcomes.