Simon G Gregory, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Published online: September 2005
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005365
The generation of a contig, by overlapping consensus segments within a region of deoxyribonucleic acid, can facilitate the identification of genes and provide the basis for structural and functional analyses. Contigs can be constructed in a directed approach using region-specific markers or by whole-genome analysis.
Keywords: contig; restriction mapping; bacterial artificial chromosome; cosmid, P1-derived artificial chromosome, yeast artificial chromosome, sequence tagged site
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| Web Links | |
| ePath Caltech Genome Research Laboratory. Resource for human CIT BAC libraries and BAC end information http://informa.bio.caltech.edu/idx_www_tree.html | |
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| ePath Clemson University Genomics Institute. Resource for genomic and EST libraries http://www.genome.clemson.edu/index.html | |
| ePath Ensembl Mouse Genome Server. Genome browser containing mouse map, sequence and analysed genome data http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/ | |
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| ePath UK HGMP Resource Centre. Resource of genomic YAC, BAC, PAC and cDNA libraries http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/geneservice/resources_index.html | |
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