Building a new genome database

1. Organize your work. Decide on a database name. UCSC bases our names on the binomial nomenclature. The UCSC naming scheme is abcDef1 where abc is the first three letters of the genus, Def is the first three letters of the species, the 1 is the version of the genome. Versions start at 1. At UCSC we use a symlink from /cluster/data/abcDef1 -> to a filesystem that has enough data space to contain the build. Thus, all genome builds can be found from /cluster/data/ despite their actual NFS filesystem location.