The file contains few notes about the changes in this directory. Should you find something unclear, or buggy, please send an email to rgd.data@mcw.edu. Thank you! -- RGD Developers As of August 5, 2013, four new columns are added to STRAINS.txt file: AVAILABILITY, RESEARCH_USE, ALLELES, and ALLELE_RGD_IDS. Existing columns will remain unchanged. STRAINS.xml file is similarly updated. In May 2013, publication of IPI ids has been discontinued. No longer these ids will be found in the generated files. However, the full dump of RGD objects associated with these ids has been made and the file ipi_ids.txt has been created and made available. As of July 10, 2011 generation of RGD_ORTHOLOGS file has been discontinued and the pipeline retired. The file won't be updated any longer. RGD_ORTHOLOGS.txt file will be generated instead on weekly basis - apart from detailed header, the contents will be identical like in the old file. In July 2011, new set of files with annotated object by ontology has been created and it will be updated on weekly basis. The original set of files, found in annotated_rgd_objects_by_ontology directory, is in gaf 2.0 format. In the subdirectory 'with_terms' you can find the new set files in custom format. For example, in addition to ontology term accession ids, you will find a column with the ontology term names. In April 2011, publication of RATMAP_IDs and RHDB_IDs has been discontinued. No longer these ids will be found in the generated files. However, the full dump of RGD objects associated with these ids has been made and the files ratmap_ids.txt and rhdb_ids.txt has been created and made available. RGD-based ontology files in obo format: clinical measurement, experimental condition, measurement method, pathway and rat strain, are found in ftp://rgd.mcw.edu/pub/ontology/ as of March 15, 2011.