This directory contains the assembled sequence for the November 2004 update of the rat genome (rn4, Nov. 2004, version 3.4) in separate files for each chromosome in a gzip-compressed Fasta format. This assembly was provided by the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium. It was produced at the Baylor College of Medicine. For more information on the rat genome, see the Rat Genome Project website for the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center at http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/. Files included in this directory: - chr*.fa.gz: compressed FASTA sequence of each chromosome. Repeats from RepeatMasker and Tandem Repeats Finder (with period of 12 or less) are shown in lower case; non-repeating sequence is shown in upper case. -------------------------------------------------------------- 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/rn4/chromosomes. To download multiple files, use the "mget" command: mget ... - or - mget -a (to download all the files in the directory) These data are made 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 this data (the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium) are properly acknowledged. 3. The Centers producing the data reserve the right to publish the initial large-scale analyses of the dataset, 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. This is in accordance with, and with the understandings in the Fort Lauderdale meeting discussing Community Resource Projects (see http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/awtpubrepdat.html) and the resulting NHGRI policy statement (http://www.genome.gov/page.cfm?pageID=10506537). 5. Any redistribution of the data should carry this notice.