# Download links for DRAGEN Reference genome FASTA files

Below links are common FASTA assembly used as baseline assembly to generate different DRAGEN hash tables

hg38 alt-aware with HLAs: <https://ilmn-dragen-giab-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/FASTA/hg38.fa> or <http://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/reference/GRCh38_reference_genome/GRCh38_full_analysis_set_plus_decoy_hla.fa>

hg38 alt-aware without HLAs: <https://ilmn-dragen-giab-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/FASTA/hg38_alt_aware_nohla.fa>

hg19: <https://ilmn-dragen-giab-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/FASTA/hg19.fa>

hs37d5: <https://ilmn-dragen-giab-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/FASTA/hs37d5.fa>

GRCh37: <https://ilmn-dragen-giab-samples.s3.amazonaws.com/FASTA/GRCh37.fa>

Reference: <https://www.illumina.com/science/genomics-research/articles/dragen-demystifying-reference-genomes.html>

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