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UCSC List Tracks

Discover available UCSC Genome Browser annotation tracks for a genome assembly, and inspect a track's column schema. With only 'genome' set, returns the list of leaf tracks (each with track name, type, shortLabel, longLabel, parent) so you can find valid track names to pass to UCSC_get_track (there are tens of thousands, e.g. dbSnp155, dbSnp155ClinVar, dbSnp155Common, knownGene, ncbiRefSeq, encodeCcreCombined). Use 'name_filter' to narrow the list by substring (matched against track name, short…

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Overview

Discover available UCSC Genome Browser annotation tracks for a genome assembly, and inspect a track's column schema. With only 'genome' set, returns the list of leaf tracks (each with track name, type, shortLabel, longLabel, parent) so you can find valid track names to pass to UCSC_get_track (there are tens of thousands, e.g. dbSnp155, dbSnp155ClinVar, dbSnp155Common, knownGene, ncbiRefSeq, encodeCcreCombined). Use 'name_filter' to narrow the list by substring (matched against track name, shortLabel, longLabel). When 'track' is also provided, returns that track's column schema instead (column name, sqlType, jsonType, description) from the list/schema endpoint. Example: genome 'hg38' returns 23000+ tracks; genome 'hg38' + track 'knownGene' returns its 27 columns (chrom, chromStart, ...).

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

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JSON · 33 lines · 963 chars

Examples (1)

Default UCSC List Tracks call

Public-safe example · rate-limited

JSON input · 6 lines · 91 chars
Expected response keys: success

Identifiers

Catalog ID
tu_UCSC_list_tracks
Tool name
UCSC_list_tracks
Added
2026-07-29 18:13Z
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