Hello Peng,

You can find help documentation on the MAF format here:

http://genome.ucsc.edu/FAQ/FAQformat.html#format5

Note that for any of the file formats you can simply click on the format 
name in the main custom track menu here for more information:

http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgCustom

Best regards,

Pauline Fujita
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu

On 12/21/11 3:20 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi Vanessa,
>
> Is there a document describe how to read the display? Some it is
> obvious. But some of the display is not obvious. For example, what
> does '=' mean? What does the number on the "Gaps" line mean?
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Vanessa Kirkup Swing
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi Peng,
>>
>> You can use the custom track tool to visualize MAFs. To get to the
>> custom track tool, click on "Genomes" from the blue navigation bar,
>> and then click on "add custom tracks". There is help documentation on
>> that page to help you get started.
>>
>> If you have further questions, please email the list: [email protected]
>>
>> Vanessa Kirkup Swing
>> UCSC Genome Browser Group
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Peng Yu<[email protected]>
>> Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:59 PM
>> Subject: [Genome] What software can be used to visualize MAF files?
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't see any of the multiple alignment viewer support MAF format.
>> This looks wired to me. Does anybody know what tool can be used to
>> visualize MAF files?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alignment_visualization_software
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
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