Hello Greg, These random fasta files represent the unplaced genome sequence in the assembly. The "Gateway" page for each assembly has a list of all the main assembly back-bone reference sequences, descriptions, credits, and links to external contributors (that often have more details of interest).
To locate the Gateway page for an assembly: - http://genome.ucsc.edu/ - Genome Browser - select assembly from top pull down menus. The result is the gateway page. Scroll down for the information. Hopefully this is helpful, Regards, Jen UCSC Genome Browser Support On 9/1/10 9:08 AM, Gregory Dougherty wrote: > Hi all, > > What is in the chr<number>-random.fa files? I have a RefSeq id (NM_015963) > that's in both chr2 (242172493 - 242225398) and chr2_random (1616 - 54520). > Why? What's that mean? > > TIA, > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
