[Genome] mirroring from BSC

[Alexis Torrano]

Hello

I am Alexis Torrano. I am
mailing you from INB-BSC (National Institute in
BioInformatics-Barcelona Supercomputing Center) asking for some advice.
Our researchers make an important use of your databases. And we are
interested in keeping a mirroring of such genome databases for
them. 
We plan
to add an update process of your databases to our authomatical database
update process. 
Mainly we
will follow the indications appearing on your website about rsync. We'd
like to know if we should take into account some other issue which could
make easier the update.


We have observed that some files
are of the kind *fa.gz, ga.masked,gz and others like *Fa.zip,
*FaMasked.zip, hardmask.fa.gz.

Also, there are some files that
match in someway their specie directory, some others do not.

	Anolis_carolinensis/bigZips/anoCar1.fa.masked.gz
	Anopheles_gambiae/bigZips/chromFaMasked.zip
	Canis_familiaris/bigZips/chromFaMasked.tar.gz
	Bos_taurus/bigZips/bosTau2.hardmask.fa.gz

Do you have in
mind future changes on naming protocol for genome files? full name,
abbreviation based on directory name, uniformity maske vs hardmask,
etc...

About mirroring UCSC genomes and offer such mirroring
through our website, there is some needed constraint to accomplish,
something we must know? may we mirror only the databases without
Genome-Browser?


           thank you very much.

        Alexis Torrano.-- 
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Torrano Martinez
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