This directory contains the Mar. 2012 (RGSC 5.0/rn5) assembly of the rat genome (rn5, RGSC Rnor_5.0 (GCA_000001895.3)), as well as repeat annotations and GenBank sequences. For more information about this assembly, please note the NCBI resources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/73 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/assembly/382928 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/16219 Files included in this directory: rn5.2bit - contains the complete rat/rn5 genome sequence in the 2bit file format. 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. The utility program, twoBitToFa (available from the kent src tree), can be used to extract .fa file(s) from this file. A pre-compiled version of the command line tool can be found at: http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/ See also: http://genome.ucsc.edu/admin/git.html http://genome.ucsc.edu/admin/jk-install.html rn5.agp.gz - Description of how the assembly was generated from fragments. rn5.fa.gz - "Soft-masked" assembly sequence in one file. 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. chromFa.tar.gz - the same "Soft-masked" sequence from rn5.fa.gz in a tar file image. Unpacks to create a directory ./rn5/ with 2.739 files, one for each sequence in the assembly rn5.fa.masked.gz - "Hard-masked" assembly sequence in one file. Repeats are masked by capital Ns; non-repeating sequence is shown in upper case. rn5.fa.out.gz - RepeatMasker .out file. RepeatMasker was run with the -s (sensitive) setting. Repeat Masker version: April 26 2011 (open-3-3-0) database version: RELEASE 20110920 rn5.trf.bed.gz - Tandem Repeats Finder locations, filtered to keep repeats with period less than or equal to 12, and translated into UCSC's BED format. est.fa.gz - Rat ESTs in GenBank. This sequence data is updated once a week via automatic GenBank updates. md5sum.txt - checksums of files in this directory mrna.fa.gz - Rat mRNA from GenBank. This sequence data is updated once a week via automatic GenBank updates. refMrna.fa.gz - RefSeq mRNA from the same species as the genome. This sequence data is updated once a week via automatic GenBank updates. upstream1000.fa.gz - Sequences 1000 bases upstream of annotated transcription starts of RefSeq genes with annotated 5' UTRs. This file is updated weekly so it might be slightly out of sync with the RefSeq data which is updated daily for most assemblies. upstream2000.fa.gz - Same as upstream1000, but 2000 bases. upstream5000.fa.gz - Same as upstream1000, but 5000 bases. xenoMrna.fa.gz - GenBank mRNAs from species other than that of the genome. This sequence data is updated once a week via automatic GenBank updates. rn5.chrom.sizes - Two-column tab-separated text file containing assembly sequence names and sizes. rn5.gc5Base.wigVarStep.gz - ascii data wiggle variable step values used - to construct the GC Percent track rn5.gc5Base.wig.gz - wiggle database table for the GC Percent track - this is an older standard alternative to the current - bigWig format of the track, sometimes usefull for analysis rn5.gc5Base.wib - binary data to correspond with the gc5Base.wig file see also: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/wiggle.html and http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Using_hgWiggle_without_a_database for a discussion of how to use the wig.gz and .wib files for interaction with the GC percent data values rn5.chromAlias.txt - sequence name alias file, one line for each sequence name. First column is sequence name followed by tab separated alias names. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [username: anonymous, password: your email address], then cd to the directory goldenPath/rn5/bigZips. 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/rn5/bigZips/ . For a single file, e.g. chromFa.tar.gz rsync -avzP rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn5/bigZips/chromFa.tar.gz . Or with wget, all files: wget --timestamping 'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn5/bigZips/*' With wget, a single file: wget --timestamping 'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/rn5/bigZips/chromFa.tar.gz' -O chromFa.tar.gz To unpack the *.tar.gz files: tar xvzf .tar.gz To uncompress the fa.gz files: gunzip .fa.gz ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.