On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Perez, Ricardo <ricky_pz2@neo.tamu.edu> wrote:

Dear all,

I am currently working on downloading the genome data from the UCSC database. I have figured out how to obtain the genome of one species at a time, however this would take a bit of time if I have to type every command by hand. Is there any command that would download the all the data from the UCSC databases? If not, how would I go to start in writing a script that would do so.

We mirror directly out of the mysql data directory. In this script, the /var/local/mysql directory is where the actual server files are kept. https://gist.github.com/3848717 Note, this does not download the .txt and .sql files. Instead, it is reading and writing the mysql files directly and may break if the server versions are too dissimilar. Also, be sure that you test this a bit before trying it on your production database to make sure that it is working as expected. Sean