UCSC Genomic Data · Example Payload

Ucsc List Tracks Example

GenomicsBioinformaticsDNABiologyResearchOpen Science

Ucsc List Tracks Example is an example object payload from UCSC Genomic Data, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.genome.ucsc.edu/list/tracks?genome=hg38&trackLeavesOnly=1",
    "headers": {
      "Accept": "application/json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "genome": "hg38",
      "tracks": {
        "gold": {
          "track": "gold",
          "shortLabel": "Assembly",
          "longLabel": "Assembly from Fragments",
          "type": "bed 9 +",
          "visibility": "hide"
        },
        "ncbiRefSeq": {
          "track": "ncbiRefSeq",
          "shortLabel": "RefSeq All",
          "longLabel": "NCBI RefSeq genes, curated and predicted sets (NM_*, XM_*, NR_*, XR_*, NP_* or YP_*)",
          "type": "bigGenePred",
          "visibility": "pack"
        },
        "knownGene": {
          "track": "knownGene",
          "shortLabel": "GENCODE V47",
          "longLabel": "GENCODE V47 Comprehensive Transcript Set (only Basic displayed by default)",
          "type": "bigGenePred",
          "visibility": "pack"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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