This directory contains a dump of the UCSC genome annotation database for the Jul. 2008 assembly of the zebra finch genome (taeGut1, WUSTL v3.2.4). The annotations were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. This assembly was produced by the Genome Sequencing Center at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) School of Medicine. For more information on the zebra finch genome, see the project website: http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Taeniopygia%20guttata 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. 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=taeGut1 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 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/taeGut1/database/. 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/taeGut1/database/ . For a single file, e.g. gc5BaseBw.txt.gz rsync -avzP rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/taeGut1/database/gc5BaseBw.txt.gz . Or with wget, all files: wget --timestamping 'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/taeGut1/database/*' With wget, a single file: wget --timestamping 'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/taeGut1/database/gc5BaseBw.txt.gz' -O gc5BaseBw.txt.gz Please note that some files contents, such as this example gc5BaseBw.txt.gz, will point to the data being hosted in another /gbdb/ location, which refers to ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/gbdb/ To uncompress the *.txt.gz files: gunzip .txt.gz The tables can be loaded directly from the .txt.gz compressed file. It is not necessary to uncompress them to load into a database, as shown in the example below. To load one of the tables directly into your local mirror database, for example the table chromInfo: ## create table from the sql definition $ hgsql taeGut1 < chromInfo.sql ## load data from the txt.gz file $ zcat chromInfo.txt.gz | hgsql taeGut1 --local-infile=1 -e 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "/dev/stdin" INTO TABLE chromInfo;' ------------------------------------------------------------------ All the files and tables in this directory are freely usable for any purpose. The Zebra finch sequence is made freely available to the community by the Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, 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 these data if the providers of these data are properly acknowledged. See http://genome.wustl.edu/data.cgi for credit information. 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. 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/doc_wtd003208.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.