This directory contains a dump of the UCSC genome annotation database for the Feb. 2006 assembly of the stickleback genome (gasAcu1, Broad Institute version 1.0). The annotations were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. This assembly was produced by the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard. For more information on the stickleback genome, see the project website: http://www.broad.mit.edu/tools/data/data-vert.html 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. See http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/gbdDescriptions.html for descriptions of the tables. --------------------------------------------------------------- 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/gasAcu1/database/. To download multiple files, use the "mget" command: mget ... - or - mget -a (to download all the files in the directory) ------------------------------------------------------------------ All the files and tables in this directory are freely usable for any purpose. The stickleback sequence is made freely available before scientific publication with the following understanding: 1. The data may be freely downloaded, used in analyses, and repackaged in databases. 2. Users are free to use the data in scientific papers analyzing particular genes and regions if the providers of these data (The Broad Institute) are properly acknowledged. 3. The centers producing the data reserve the right to publish the initial large-scale analyses of the data set, including large-scale identification of regions of evolutionary conservation and large-scale genomic assembly. Large-scale refers to regions with size on the order of a chromosome (that is, 30 Mb or more). 4. Any redistribution of the data should carry this notice.