title: VUMC MACF human 5K BAC v47
status: Public on Jan 03 2011
contact.city: Amsterdam
contact.first: Daoud
contact.last: Sie
contact.email: d.sie@vumc.nl
contact.address: De Boelelaan 1117
contact.department: Pathology
contact.country: Netherlands
contact.institute: Vrije Universiteit Medical Center
contact.phone: +31 20 4442428
organism: Homo sapiens
manufacture_protocol: The platform contains approximately 5000 clones, consisting of the Sanger BAC clone set with an average resolution along the whole genome of 1.0 Mb (http://www.ensembl.org/Homo sapiens/cytoview), the OncoBac set (http://informa.bio.caltech.edu/Bac_onc.html), containing approximately 600 clones corresponding to 200 cancer-related genes, and selected clones of interest obtained from the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) (http://bacpac.chori.org/home.htm) to fill any gaps larger than 1 Mb on chromosome 6 and to have full-coverage contigs of regions on chromosomes 8, 11, 13, and 20 (previously described in Buffart et al J Pathol 2007).