This directory contains a dump of the UCSC genome annotation database for the October 2004 assembly of the Xenopus tropicalis genome (xenTro1, Oct. 2004) from the US DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Files included in this directory (updated nightly): - *.sql files: 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=xenTro1 and click the "describe table schema" button. There is also a "view table schema" link on the configuration page for each track. - *.txt.gz files: the database tables in a tab-delimited format compressed with gzip. --------------------------------------------------------------- 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/xenTro1/database/. To download multiple files, use the "mget" command: mget ... - or - mget -a (to download all the files in the directory) Preliminary drafts of the X. tropicalis sequence are made freely available before scientific publication by the JGI and the X. tropicalis Genome Consortium, 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 provider of this data (DOE Joint Genome Institute) is properly acknowledged. 3. Additional shotgun sequencing is ongoing, and future assembly releases will be made in a timely fashion. We expect to publish an initial analysis of a high quality draft X. tropicalis genome sequence in 2005 (with submission targeted for the spring of 2005) which will include descriptions of the large scale organization of the frog genome as well as genome-scale comparisons of the frog sequence and gene set with those of other animals. Others who would like to coordinate other genome-wide analysis with this work should contact Paul Richardson (pmrichardson@lbl.gov), JGI. We welcome a coordinated approach to describing this community resource. 4. Any redistribution of the data should carry this notice.