A resource of mapped human bacterial artificial chromosome clones.
To date, despite the increasing number of genomic tools, there is no repository of ordered human BAC clones that covers entire chromosomes. This project presents a resource of mapped large DNA fragments that span eight human chromosomes at approximately 1-Mb resolution. These DNA fragments are bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones anchored to sequence tagged site (STS) markers. This clone collection, which currently contains 759 mapped clones, is useful in a wide range of applications from microarray-based gene mapping to identification of chromosomal mutations. In addition to the clones themselves, we describe a database, GenMapDB (http://genomics.med.upenn.edu/genmapdb), that contains information about each clone in our collection.
Cheung
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Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 USA. vcheung@mail.med.upenn.edu
Dalrymple
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HL
Narasimhan
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S
Watts
J
J
Schuler
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Raap
A K
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Morley
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Bruzel
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D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D020407:Internet; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D020161:Physical Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016324:Sequence Tagged Sites