B6 SOLiD DNA-Seq
For the B6 BAC contig, we used the RPCI-23 B6 Mouse BAC Library available from Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, which was generated from a pool of five female B6 strain mice from the Jackson Laboratory, where strain stability is carefully controlled. This is the same library used by the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium to generate the B6 reference strain sequence. We used publically available BAC end-sequence for the BAC clones and assembled a minimal contig of 25 overlapping BACs including clones 27N12, 162D2, 90F16, 135E8, 161F18, 244J9, 247E12, 311M1, 354B19, 31N9, 395H6, 231O3, 362G20, 21D8, 295F11, 277L8, 125N14, 447P5, 58C22, 477M10, 22H23, 454E7, 411M14, 131N14, and 6N10.