GenArk: UCSC Genome Archive

hub gateway description
primates NCBI primate genomes (600 assemblies)
mammals NCBI mammal genomes (690 assemblies)
birds NCBI bird genomes (442 assemblies)
fishes NCBI fish genomes (500 assemblies)
vertebrate NCBI other vertebrate genomes (324 assemblies)
invertebrate NCBI invertebrate genomes (1346 assemblies)
fungi NCBI fungi genomes (947 assemblies)
plants NCBI plant genomes (341 assemblies)
viral NCBI virus genomes (709 assemblies)
archaea NCBI archaea genomes (757 assemblies)
bacteria NCBI bacteria genomes (21315 assemblies)
collections below are subsets of the assemblies above
VGP Vertebrate Genomes Project collection (1294 assemblies)
CCGP The California Conservation Genomics Project (126 assemblies)
HPRC Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (464 assemblies)
BRC BRC Analytics - Bioinformatics Research Center (1633 assemblies)
globalReference Global Human Reference genomes, January 2020 (10 assemblies)
mouseStrains 16 mouse strain assembly and track hub, May 2017
legacy NCBI genomes legacy/superseded by newer versions (685 assemblies)

Please note: text file listing of 28655 genome assembly hubs

Please note, the invertebrate category contains more than just invertebrate animals. Until these clades are sorted out, with extra categories created, you will also find parasites, protozoa, and other single celled eukaryotes in the invertebrate grouping.

Please use the Assembly Search page to find and request GenBank assemblies that have not yet been included in the collections here.

To reference these resources in publications, please credit:

Clawson, H., Lee, B.T., Raney, B.J. et al.
GenArk: towards a million UCSC genome browsers.
Genome Biol 24, 217 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-03057-x