[Genome] Adding a new genome (or genomes) to the public site

[Roger Bumgarner]

All,

We are working on some comparative genomics projects looking at  
different strains of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans.  At  
present there is a single strain that has been sequenced and which is  
in the public domain but we've recently produced a nearly complete  
sequence of a 2nd strain and will do a third soon.  We'd like to use  
Genome Browser to display the various strain relative to each other  
and to display annotation of a variety of sorts as part of out  
comparative analysis.  While I understand that we can download  
GenomeBrowser locally and add both new genomes and whatever track we  
wish, I was also wondering what UCSC's policy/process is regarding  
adding new genomes to your public site.  My thought is that we will  
eventually want to publish our comparative genomics analyses and will  
want to make much of our results available and visualizable via the  
Genome Browser.  Is that best accomplished by:

1) Convincing someone at your place that it's worthwhile to add the  
AA genome to your site?
2) Setting up a second public site at our location which is focussed  
on AA?

Your advice/thoughts/constraints on such an endeavor would be  
appreciated.

With best regards,

Roger E. Bumgarner
Associate Professor
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