This directory contains the Mar. 2018 (GRCg6a/galGal6) assembly of the
    chicken genome (galGal6, Genome Reference Consortium),
    as well as repeat annotations and GenBank sequences.

For more information about this assembly, please note the NCBI resources:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/111
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/assembly/1668981
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/13342
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/SAMN02981218

Files included in this directory:

galGal6.2bit - contains the complete chicken/galGal6 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.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/
    See also:
        http://genome.ucsc.edu/admin/git.html
	http://genome.ucsc.edu/admin/jk-install.html

galGal6.chrom.sizes - Two-column tab-separated text file containing assembly
    sequence names and sizes.

galGal6.agp.gz - Description of how the assembly was generated from
    fragments.

galGal6.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.

galGal6.fa.masked.gz - "Hard-masked" assembly sequence in one file.
    Repeats are masked by capital Ns; non-repeating sequence is shown in
    upper case.

galGal6.fa.out.gz - RepeatMasker .out file.  RepeatMasker was run with the
    -s (sensitive) setting.
    February 01 2017 (open-4-0-7) 1.331 version of RepeatMasker
    RepBase library: Dfam_Consensus RELEASE 20170127
CC    RepBase RELEASE 20170127;                                   *

galGal6.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 - Chicken 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 - Chicken 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.
galGal6.gc5Base.wigVarStep.gz - ascii data wiggle variable step values used
                           - to construct the GC Percent track
galGal6.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
galGal6.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

galGal6.chromAlias.txt - sequence name alias file, one line
    for each sequence name.  First column is sequence name followed by
    tab separated alias names.

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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.soe.ucsc.edu
[username: anonymous, password: your email address], then cd to the
directory goldenPath/galGal6/bigZips. To download multiple files, use
the "mget" command:

    mget <filename1> <filename2> ...
    - 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.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal6/bigZips/ .
For a single file, e.g. chromFa.tar.gz
    rsync -avzP 
        rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal6/bigZips/chromFa.tar.gz .

Or with wget, all files:
    wget --timestamping 
        'ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal6/bigZips/*'
With wget, a single file:
    wget --timestamping 
        'ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/galGal6/bigZips/chromFa.tar.gz' 
        -O chromFa.tar.gz

To unpack the *.tar.gz files:
    tar xvzf <file>.tar.gz
To uncompress the fa.gz files:
    gunzip <file>.fa.gz

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GenBank Data Usage

The GenBank database is designed to provide and encourage access within
the scientific community to the most up to date and comprehensive DNA
sequence information. Therefore, NCBI places no restrictions on the use
or distribution of the GenBank data. However, some submitters may claim
patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all or a
portion of the data they have submitted. NCBI is not in a position to
assess the validity of such claims, and therefore cannot provide comment
or unrestricted permission concerning the use, copying, or distribution
of the information contained in GenBank.
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      Name                          Last modified      Size  Description
Parent Directory - xenoRefMrna.fa.gz.md5 2019-10-15 19:48 52 xenoRefMrna.fa.gz 2019-10-15 19:48 326M xenoMrna.fa.gz.md5 2019-10-15 19:42 49 xenoMrna.fa.gz 2019-10-15 19:42 6.8G upstream5000.fa.gz 2018-10-17 08:58 8.1M upstream2000.fa.gz 2018-10-17 08:57 3.3M upstream1000.fa.gz 2018-10-17 08:57 1.7M refMrna.fa.gz.md5 2019-10-15 19:48 48 refMrna.fa.gz 2019-10-15 19:48 5.3M mrna.fa.gz.md5 2019-10-15 19:32 45 mrna.fa.gz 2019-10-15 19:32 12M md5sum.txt 2019-01-17 15:54 692 genes/ 2020-10-02 13:37 - galGal6.trf.bed.gz 2018-10-17 08:50 1.9M galGal6.gc5Base.wigVarStep.gz 2018-10-11 13:51 538M galGal6.gc5Base.wig.gz 2019-01-17 14:47 3.8M galGal6.gc5Base.wib 2019-01-17 14:47 201M galGal6.fa.out.gz 2018-10-17 08:50 20M galGal6.fa.masked.gz 2018-10-17 08:57 274M galGal6.fa.gz 2018-10-17 08:54 332M galGal6.chromAlias.txt 2022-09-08 14:12 29K galGal6.chromAlias.bb 2022-09-08 14:12 210K galGal6.chrom.sizes 2018-10-11 13:42 12K galGal6.agp.gz 2018-10-17 08:50 50K galGal6.2bit 2018-10-11 15:51 299M est.fa.gz.md5 2019-10-15 19:47 44 est.fa.gz 2019-10-15 19:47 142M