Obtaining DNA sequence from the UCSC Database
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Open the UCSC browser and navigate to the "Dec. 2013 (GRCh38/hg38)" human assembly.
Enter the position chr4:133,148,410-133,195,705 and click submit.
The appropriate view is here.
Click the View-->DNA link to enter the "Get DNA in Window" page
Sequence range and formatting adjustments are available, accepting the defaults and clicking "Get DNA" will retrieve the genomic sequence that was present in the browser view.
Go back to the "Get DNA in Window" page
Click the “extended case/color options” button and configure the display so that known gene exons are in bold, red and upper case letters.
Set default case set to "Lower" with the radio button.
Check the boxes for "Toggle Case" and "Bold" and enter 255 in the "Red" box on the GENCODE v24 line.
Click submit and view the newly formatted results.
