This directory contain human/rat alignments made
using the May 2004 human assembly (also known as
NCBI build 35, UCSC build hg17) vs. the June 2003
rat assembly (also known as UCSC build rn3). 

The axtNet subdirectory shows the best mouse/human chain for
every part of the mouse genome. For more information on the
chain and net algorithms, see the Methods section of the
description pages associated with the net and chain tracks.

The alignments are in 'axt' format.   Each alignment
contains three lines and is separated from the next
alignment by a space:   

    Line 1 - summarizes the alignment.   
    Line 2 - contains the human sequence with inserts.  
    Line 3 - contains the rat sequence with inserts.  

The summary line contains 9 blank separated fields with the 
following meanings:

1 - Alignment number. The first alignment in a file
    is numbered 0,  the next 1, and so forth.
2 - Human chromosome.
3 - Start in human chromosome. The first base is
    numbered 1.
4 - End in human chromosome. The end base is included.
5 - Rat chromosome.
6 - Start in rat.
7 - End in rat.
8 - Rat strand. If this is '-', the rat start/end fields 
    are relative to the reverse-complemented rat chromosome.
9 - Blastz score. The scoring matrix blastz uses is:

           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
    to be kept was 3000 for the first pass,  and then
    2200 for the second pass, which just restricts
    the search space to the regions between two alignments
    found in the first pass.

The alignments were done with blastz, which is available
from Webb Miller's group at Pennsylvania State University (PSU).  
Each chromosome was divided into 10010000 base chunks with 10000 
bases of overlap. The .lav format blastz output, which does not 
include the sequence, was converted to .axt with PSU's lavToAxt.

The axtNet alignments were processed with chainNet, netSyntenic,
and netClass from Jim Kent at UCSC.  
      Name                    Last modified      Size  Description
Parent Directory - chr1.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:28 59M chr1_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:28 757K chr2.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:31 64M chr2_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:31 41K chr3.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:32 54M chr3_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:32 263K chr4.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:33 46M chr4_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:33 126K chr5.axt.gz 2005-11-23 15:48 48M chr5_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:35 19K chr6.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:35 43M chr6_hla_hap1.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:35 16K chr6_hla_hap2.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:35 15K chr6_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:35 396K chr7.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:36 39M chr7_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:36 65K chr8.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:37 36M chr8_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:37 83K chr9.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:38 31M chr9_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:38 93K chr10.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:19 36M chr10_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:19 17K chr11.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:21 36M chr12.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:22 32M chr12_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:22 75K chr13.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:23 23M chr13_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:23 40K chr14.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:24 24M chr15.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:25 23M chr15_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:25 187K chr16.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:25 21M chr16_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:25 14K chr17.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:26 22M chr17_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:26 282K chr18.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:26 19M chr18_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:26 806 chr19.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:27 9.0M chr19_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:27 29K chr20.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:29 16M chr21.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:29 7.5M chr22.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:30 7.9M chr22_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:30 49K chrM.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:38 10K chrX.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:38 31M chrX_random.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:39 169K chrY.axt.gz 2005-08-16 14:39 1.8M md5sum.txt 2006-01-17 14:07 2.2K