This directory contains alignments of the human assembly (hg17, May 2004)
to itself.
The chr*.chain.gz files are the chained blastz alignments. The chain format is 
    described in http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/chain.html.
The md5sum.txt file indicates the md5 check sum of these chr*.chain.gz
	files to verify a correct copy.
The alignments were produced by the blastz alignment program, which 
is available from Webb Miller's lab at Penn State University 
(http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab/). The blastz scoring matrix used was:
           A    C    G    T
      A   91 -114  -31 -123
      C -114  100 -125  -31
      G  -31 -125  100 -114
      T -123  -31 -114   91
with a gap open penalty of 400 and a gap extension penalty of 30.  The 
minimum score for an alignment is 2000.
Each chromosome was divided into 10,000,000 base chunks with 10000 bases
of overlap. The .lav format blastz output, which does not include
the sequence, was converted to .axt with lavToAxt. 
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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/hg17/vsSelf/. To download multiple 
files, use the "mget" command:
    mget <filename1> <filename2> ...
    - or -
    mget -a (to download all the files in the directory) 
All the tables in this directory are freely available for public use.
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References
Chiaromonte, F., Yap, V.B., and Miller, W.  Scoring pairwise genomic 
sequence alignments.  Pac Symp Biocomput 2002;115-26.
Kent, W.J., Baertsch, R., Hinrichs, A., Miller, W., and Haussler, D. 
Evolution's cauldron: Duplication, deletion, and rearrangement in the 
mouse and human genomes.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100(20):11484-11489 
Sep 30 2003.
Schwartz, S., Kent, W.J., Smit, A., Zhang, Z., Baertsch, R., Hardison, R., 
Haussler, D., and Miller, W.  Human-mouse alignments with BLASTZ</A>. 
Genome Res. 13(1):103-7 (2003).
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      chrX_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  679K  
      chrX.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   36M  
      chrM.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   33K  
      chr22_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07  1.0M  
      chr22.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   25M  
      chr21.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07  7.8M  
      chr20.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   16M  
      chr19_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07  778K  
      chr19.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07  384M  
      chr18_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07  8.5K  
      chr18.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   16M  
      chr17_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07  2.8M  
      chr17.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   25M  
      chr16_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07   10K  
      chr16.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   30M  
      chr15_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07  321K  
      chr15.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   14M  
      chr14.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   32M  
      chr13_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07  589K  
      chr13.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   15M  
      chr12_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07  199K  
      chr12.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   23M  
      chr11.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   37M  
      chr10_random.chain.gz   2004-09-28 17:07  7.9K  
      chr10.chain.gz          2004-09-28 17:07   35M  
      chr9_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  448K  
      chr9.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   60M  
      chr8_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07   57K  
      chr8.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   30M  
      chr7_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  307K  
      chr7.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07  144M  
      chr6_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  484K  
      chr6_hla_hap2.chain.gz  2004-09-28 17:07   31K  
      chr6_hla_hap1.chain.gz  2004-09-28 17:07   27K  
      chr6.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   29M  
      chr5_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  1.8M  
      chr5.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   38M  
      chr4_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  6.4M  
      chr4.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   34M  
      chr3_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  4.1M  
      chr3.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   41M  
      chr2_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  116K  
      chr2.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   49M  
      chr1_random.chain.gz    2004-09-28 17:07  5.1M  
      chr1.chain.gz           2004-09-28 17:07   66M