This directory contains a dump of the UCSC genome annotation 
database for the Oct. 2004 assembly of the opossum genome (UCSC
version monDom1) from the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard.

The directory is updated nightly. The .txt.gz files contain the 
database tables in a tab-delimited format compressed with gzip.  
The .sql files contain the MySQL commands used to create the tables.  
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=monDom1
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 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/monDom1/database. To download multiple files, 
use the "mget" command:

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

All the tables in this directory are freely usable for any 
purpose. The opossum 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.