hi Lakshmi, Thanks for your email. We're aware of the alternative assembly, and are discussing how best to support the bovine community through the Genome Browser. If we decide to provide the UMD assembly, we'll announce its availability via our genome-announce mailing list.
Regards, -Donna ----------------- Donna Karolchik UCSC Genome Browser Project Manager http://genome.ucsc.edu Matukumalli, Lakshmi wrote: > University of Maryland have assembled the cattle genome and in several > ways we find this to be better than the > > Baylor assembly. Several groups including ours are using this version of > the assembly. > > > > ftp://ftp.cbcb.umd.edu/pub/data/assembly/Bos_taurus/Bos_taurus_UMD_3.0/ > > > > NCBI has agreed to provide annotations for this version of the assembly > also. > > > > I request you to host this version of the assembly on UCSC browser so > that we will be able to utilize all > > the additional features offered by UCSC such as annotation of Repeats > and comparative genomics analysis. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Lakshmi Kumar Matukumalli > > > > Research Asst Prof > > Bioinformatics and Computational Biology > > George Mason University, > > > > Visiting Scientist > > Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, > US Dept of Agriculture. > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
