I tested the get dna link with wget and it worked.

wget -O dna.fa 
'http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgc?hgsid=189316231&g=htcGetDna2&table=&i=mixed&o=0&l=0&r=120614378&getDnaPos=chr13%3A1-120%2C614%2C378&db=mm8&hgSeq.cdsExon=1&hgSeq.padding5=0&hgSeq.padding3=0&hgSeq.casing=upper&hgSeq.maskRepeats=on&boolshad.hgSeq.maskRepeats=0&hgSeq.repMasking=lower&boolshad.hgSeq.revComp=0&submit=get+DNA'

2011-03-16 09:58:21 (61.0 MB/s) - `dna.fa' saved [123026758]

ls -l dna.fa
-rw-rw-r-- 1 galt protein 123026758 Mar 16 09:58 dna.fa

It might be a problem with your browser.

One should use hgdownload or hgTables for big sequences
like whole chromosomes.

-Galt

On 03/16/11 08:20, Dr. Bhushan Bonde wrote:
> Hi,
> I am getting a very strange results when I compare the sequence of chr13
> (mouse mm8/NCBI36 release Feb2006) obtained as ftp as a
> chr13.fa.gz(retrived from link
> http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/mm8/chromosomes/chr13.fa.gz )
> (call this a seqChr13_A.fa)  and the DNA sequence of same chr13 obtained via
> link
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgc?hgsid=189316231&o=0&g=getDna&i=mixed&c=chr13&l=0&r=120614378&db=mm8&hgsid=189316231(
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgc?hgsid=189316231&g=htcGetDna2&table=&i=mixed&o=0&l=0&r=120614378&getDnaPos=chr13%3A1-120%2C614%2C378&db=mm8&hgSeq.cdsExon=1&hgSeq.padding5=0&hgSeq.padding3=0&hgSeq.casing=upper&hgSeq.maskRepeats=on&boolshad.hgSeq.maskRepeats=0&hgSeq.repMasking=lower&boolshad.hgSeq.revComp=0&submit=get+DNA<[email protected]>)
> (call this a seqChr13_B.fa )
> 
> What is strange is the FTP obtained Chr13 seq (seqChr13_A.fa) has 12614378
> bases which is correct as per the statistics of
> http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?hgsid=189336755&chromInfoPage=
> However, when I check the same chr sequence obtained via browser
> (seqChr13_B.fa ), it shows that the chr has only 54821374 bases.
> So what happened to almost ~65MB sequences? Is this a known bug? Or Is this
> something to do with internet browser not capable of loading 120MB file and
> only loading the 54MB file in the browser? But then when I check the end of
> the two files, the last 50 line sequence match correctly, means the end of
> file was downloaded correctly via broswer. (Not to mentioned, I checked
> various browsers on winodws/linux (both 32 and 64 bit) with Internet
> explorer/firefox/google chrome and I get the same file back as
> (seqChr13_B.fa ) .
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> wishes,
> 
> Dr. Bhushan Bonde
> 
> Computational Biology,
> 
> Medicines Discovery and Development,
> 
> GlaxoSmithKline R&D, UK.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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