Helpful tools

This table provides links that take you to third-party tools that are helpful when designing panels.

Link to tools

Description

UCSC Table Browser

Use this program to retrieve the data associated with a track in text format, to calculate intersections between tracks, and to retrieve DNA sequence covered by a track.

UCSC Genome Browser

This site contains the reference sequence and working draft assemblies for a large collection of genomes.

Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)

The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) is a high-performance visualization tool for interactive exploration of large, integrated genomic datasets. It supports a wide variety of data types, including array-based and next-generation sequence data, and genomic annotations.