Genbank and RefSeq metadata tables

[Brian Raney]

Greetings to Genome Browser Mirror Site Operators:

As of June 19, 2016 we will no longer host the metadata tables that
support the Genbank and RefSeq tracks (RefSeq, Other RefSeq, mRNA,
EST, etc) in each assembly database as we have up until this point.
All our CGI binaries now expect these tables to be in the hgFixed
database. This streamlines our process and dramatically lowers the
amount of disk space used by these tables. The metadata table names
are listed at the end of this message.

This means that you will need to download our current CGIs if you are
updating the tables that reference this metadata, or if you are
depending on our public MYSQL servers to provide this data as is the
case for our Genome Browser in the Box product. You can delete these
tables on your own mirror if you're not doing a destructive rysnc.

The tracks that depend on this metadata are:
mRNAs, ESTs, Spliced ESTs, RefSeq Genes, Other RefSeq, Other mRNAs,
Other ESTs.

All these data will now be updated weekly over the weekend on our
California download and public SQL servers.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Brian Raney

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Tables in hgFixed that once existed per assembly:

gbCdnaInfo
author
cds
cell
description
development
gbLoaded
geneName
keyword
library
mrnaClone
organism
productName
sex
source
tissue
imageClone
gbSeq
gbExtFile
gbMiscDiff
gbWarn
refSeqStatus
refLink
refSeqSummary