This directory contains the Jan 2010 assembly of the C. elegans genome (UCSC version ce9, WUSTL School of Medicine GSC and Sanger Institute version WS210) in one gzip-compressed FASTA file per chromosome. This assembly was produced by the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) School of Medicine and the Sanger Institute. For more information on the C. elegans genome, see the WUSTL project website at http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Caenorhabditis+elegans. The sequence data may also be downloaded from: ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/wormbase/WS210/genomes/c_elegans/ Files included in this directory (updated nightly): - *.sql files: the MySQL commands used to create the tables - *.txt.gz files: the database tables in a tab-delimited format compressed with gzip. To see descriptions of the tables underlying Genome Browser annotation tracks, select the table in the Table Browser: http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables?db=ce9 and click the "describe table schema" button. There is also a "view table schema" link on the configuration page for each track. --------------------------------------------------------------- If you plan to download a large file or multiple files from this directory, we recommend 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/ce9/database/. To download multiple files, use the "mget" command: mget ... - 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/ce9/database/ . For a single file, e.g. gc5Base.txt.gz rsync -avzP rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce9/database/gc5Base.txt.gz . Or with wget, all files: wget --timestamping 'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce9/database/*' With wget, a single file: wget --timestamping 'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/ce9/database/gc5Base.txt.gz' -O gc5Base.txt.gz To uncompress the *.txt.gz files: gunzip .txt.gz The tables can be loaded directly from the .txt.gz compressed file. It is not necessary to uncompress them to load into a database, as shown in the example below. To load one of the tables directly into your local mirror database, for example the table chromInfo: ## create table from the sql definition $ hgsql ce9 < chromInfo.sql ## load data from the txt.gz file $ zcat chromInfo.txt.gz | hgsql ce9 --local-infile=1 -e 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "/dev/stdin" INTO TABLE chromInfo;' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The C. elegans sequence is made freely available to the community by the Genome Sequencing Center at the WUSTL School of Medicine. Please see the WUSTL data use policy at http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi for data use restrictions and citation information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------