This directory contains the assembled sequence for the Jan. 2003 update of the rat genome (rn2, Jan. 2003) in separate files for each chromosome in a zipped Fasta format. This assembly was provided by the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium and was produced at the Baylor College of Medicine. For more information on the rat genome, see the Baylor Rat Genome Project website at http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/. Files included in this directory: - chr*.fa.zip: 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. RepeatMasker June 2003 version with RepBase libraries: RepBase Update 8.4, RM database version 20030619 --------------------------------------------------------------- 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/rnJan2003/chromosomes. To download multiple files, use the "mget" command: mget ... - or - mget -a (to download all the files in the directory) All the files in this directory are freely available for any purpose.