1) Three files (biosequence_schema.sql, est_ssr_schema.sql, and RGP_Assembly_schemaDUMP.sql) contain the sql code to load a MySQL server with 3 databases schemas. Before loading these schemas you need to create these databases in MySQL. The names of the DBs are: * biosequence This is an older version of bioperl's bioSQL schema. You should load it with the EST/unigene sequences using bioperl. * RGP_assembly See point 3) below. * est_ssr You should load it with SSR information (from Sputnik) and with similarity results after comparing EST/unigene sequences with the rice genome (using blast). There is no particular reason why 3 separate databases. I did this just to simplify things for me. If you wish to load all tables into a single database, I suggest loading them into the est_ssr database and then modify every perl script that talks to the database (modifications need to be done deep in the code itself, but are simple to make, just a name change). 2) The other 2 files included (ProcessBACoverlap_SSR.pl and blast_result_HSP_rep_check.pl) are perl scripts to do some post processing of data. You must run these when the databases are loaded with est_ssrs and sequences. 3) The database RGP_Assembly contains the ordering of rice genome clones. You should probably load a more recent version.