How do I obtain the sequence and/or annotation data for a release?
Response: Sequence and annotation data downloads are usually made available within the first week of the release of a new assembly. The download directories are automatically updated nightly to incorporate additions and modifications to the data. We recommend that you download data via our FTP site at ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/, particularly if you plan to download multiple files or files of large size. To do so: ftp hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu user name: anonymous password: your email address go to the goldenPath directory, pick an assembly directory, then a data directory To download multiple files from the UNIX ftp command line, use the “mget” command. You may want to use the “prompt” command to toggle the interactive mode if you do not want to be prompted for each file that you download. mget [filename1] [filename2] … – or – mget -a (to download all the files in the directory) You can also download data from our Downloads page or our DAS server. To download a specific subset of t
