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What Are The Files Named "Random" In Genome Sequences?

For example for rattus_norvegicus you have files called

chr1.fa.gz 17-Mar-2006 09:12 76M
chr1_random.fa.gz 17-Mar-2006 09:12 1.0M

What are the latter?

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2 answers

See the UCSC FAQ. It talks about the human assembly but the same applies to rat.

Duplicate of: What Do Chromosome Codes Such As 'Chr_Random' Represent?

Would help if it were as easy to see similar questions before posting as it used to be.

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