A common question when reading an interesting paper is, "how does relate to my favorite gene locus?". To address this question, usually we need to download the supplemental data, figure out what format it's in, convert it to some other useful format, and visualize it alongside our own data.

hubward helps manage this process, lowering the effort required to track, manage, organize, and upload many studies for cross-comparison in the UCSC Genome Browser.

Data are organized into track hubs on the UCSC Genome Browser, and the name hubward indicates the direction in which data are moved into these track hubs. It can also refer to a direction in other complex systems.

The separate repository, hubward-studies, contains examples of prepared track hubs. Subsets of these can be combined into user-defined hubs, or can serve as examples for preparing other studies.

Documentation can be found at https://daler.github.io/hubward.

This poster gives an overview of hubward, and provides a worked example.

Further details can be found in the full documentation.