This directory contains the May 2005 assembly of the A. mellifera
genome (apiMel3, Baylor HGSC Amel_3.0) in one gzip-compressed FASTA
file per chromosome.

This assembly was produced by the Baylor College of Medicine Human
Genome Sequencing Center.  For more information on the A. mellifera
genome, see the project website:
  http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/honeybee/

Files included in this directory:

  - chr*.fa.gz: compressed FASTA sequence of each chromosome.

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If you plan to download a large file or multiple files from this 
directory, we recommend that you use ftp rather than downloading the 
files via our website. To do so, ftp to hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu, then 
go to the directory goldenPath/apiMel3/chromosomes. To download multiple 
files, use the "mget" command:

    mget <filename1> <filename2> ...
    - or -
    mget -a (to download all the files in the directory)

Alternate methods to ftp access.
    
Using an rsync command to download the entire directory:
    rsync -avzP rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/apiMel3/chromosomes/ .
For a single file, e.g. chrM.fa.gz
    rsync -avzP 
        rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/apiMel3/chromosomes/chrM.fa.gz .
    
Or with wget, all files:
    wget --timestamping 
        'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/apiMel3/chromosomes/*'
With wget, a single file:
    wget --timestamping 
        'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/apiMel3/chromosomes/chrM.fa.gz' 
        -O chrM.fa.gz
    
To uncompress the fa.gz files:
    gunzip <file>.fa.gz

For conditions of use regarding the A. mellifera genome sequence data, see
http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/projects/conditions_for_use.html .