ucscGenomes {rtracklayer} | R Documentation

## Get available genomes on UCSC

### Description

Get a `data.frame` describing the available UCSC genomes.

### Usage

    ucscGenomes(organism=FALSE)

### Arguments

`organism` | A `logical(1)` indicating whether scientific name should be appended.

### Details

For populating the organism column, the web url http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin is scraped for every assembly version to get the scientific name.

### Value

A `data.frame` with the following columns:

`db` | UCSC DB identifier (e.g. "hg18")
`species` | The name of the species (e.g. "Human")
`date` | The date the genome was built
`name` | The official name of the genome build
`organism` | The scientific name of the species (e.g. "Homo sapiens")

### Author(s)

Michael Lawrence

### See Also

`UCSCSession` for details on specifying the genome.

### Examples

    ucscGenomes()

[Package rtracklayer version 1.44.4 Index]