This directory contains FASTA files which contain a modified version
of the Build 36 finished human genome assembly (hg18, Mar. 2006). 
The chromosomal sequences were assembled by the International Human 
Genome Project sequencing centers.  The hg18/NCBI36 assembly was changed 
to use IUPAC ambiguous nucleotide characters at each base covered by a 
stringently filtered subset of single-base substitutions annotated by 
dbSNP build 130.  For example, if the assembly has an 'A' at a position 
where dbSNP has annotated an A/C/T substitution SNP, the 'A' is replaced 
by 'H' in the FASTA file here.  

dbSNP single-base substitutions were excluded from masking in the
following cases:
- UCSC tagged the dbSNP item with any of these exceptions (see also
  hg18.snp130Exceptions and hg18.snp130ExceptionDesc database tables):
  - MultipleAlignments: dbSNP mapped item to multiple locations
  - ObservedMismatch: the reference allele does not appear in the item's
    observed alleles.
  - ObservedWrongFormat: the observed sequence has an unexpected format
    (no instances of this exception were found in snp130)
- dbSNP item class is not "single".
- dbSNP item length is not exactly one base.
- dbSNP item weight is greater than 1.  (lower weight = higher confidence)
The remaining single-base substitutions were used to mask the genomic 
sequence.

Files included in this directory:

chr*.subst.fa.gz - FASTA files with IUPAC characters for substitution SNPs

md5sum.txt - checksums of files in this directory

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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.cse.ucsc.edu
[username: anonymous, password: your email address], then cd to the
directory goldenPath/hg18/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.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/snp130Mask/ .
For a single file, e.g. chr1.subst.fa.gz
    rsync -avzP \
        rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/snp130Mask/chr1.subst.fa.gz .

Or with wget, all files:
    wget --timestamping \
        'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/snp130Mask/*'
With wget, a single file:
    wget --timestamping \
        'ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg18/snp130Mask/chr1.subst.fa.gz' \
        -O chr1.subst.fa.gz

To uncompress the fa.gz files:
    gunzip <file>.fa.gz

      Name                      Last modified      Size  Description
Parent Directory - chr2.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 76M chr1.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:08 72M chr3.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 62M chr4.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 60M chr5.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 57M chr6.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 54M chr7.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:11 49M chrX.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:11 48M chr8.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:11 46M chr10.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:08 42M chr11.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 42M chr12.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 41M chr9.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:11 38M chr13.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 31M chr14.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 28M chr15.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 26M chr16.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 25M chr17.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 24M chr18.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 24M chr20.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 19M chr19.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:09 17M chr22.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 11M chr21.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 11M chrY.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:11 7.9M chr6_cox_hap1.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 1.5M chr6_qbl_hap2.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:11 1.3M chr5_h2_hap1.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 550K chr22_h2_hap1.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:10 21K chrM.subst.fa.gz 2009-07-10 11:11 6.0K md5sum.txt 2009-07-10 14:01 1.5K