Thanks, if anyone else is interested I found an updated repeatmasker
file for mm9 at RepeatMasker's main site
http://repeatmasker.org/PreMaskedGenomes.html
-Ed

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Brooke Rhead <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> We don't have any plans to update the RepeatMasker track on mm9.  One of our
> engineers had this info for you:
>
> In addition to -s, we also run with -species 'Mus musculus' for mouse. We
> use cross_match. I would expect results of the latest RepeatMasker and
> library to be a superset of the old results - the old results should be
> recognizable within the new results (maybe with slight differences).
>
> We also chop up sequence into 500,000-base chunks so we can run RepeatMasker
> jobs in parallel on our cluster -- that might cause some differences at the
> edges of those chunks. But those differences should not be major.
>
> --
> Brooke Rhead
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>
>
> Edward Chuong wrote on 9/20/10 3:30 PM:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I wanted to create an updated Repeatmasker annotation for mm9 assembly
>> (the track details say it was last updated in 2007). I tried running
>> repeatmasker with the -s setting only, with rmblast, and the latest
>> repeatmasker repbase update (June 4 2009). Unfortunately my results
>> missed a lot of repeats listed in the public track and in general the
>> results were very different.
>>
>> Any ideas on what may have led to the differences? What engine was
>> used (I've seen both cross match and WUblast mentioned on this list)?
>> Alternatively are there any plans to update the public mm9
>> repeatmasker track?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Ed
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