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[Erika]

Dear colleagues at Santa Cruz Genome Browser,

I am interested in using the recombination data from the Table  
Browser for Human Mar 2006, track =Recomb Rate , table=recombRate.

 From a previous posting on Jul 22, 2004 I noticed that UCSC  
calculates a rate for all maps for all windows reported:
For all other windows, we report a rate for all maps.  The absence of
markers in a particular window does not affect our method of  
calculation.
A description of this method can be seen on the description page for the
track.

However, I noticed that there are 1Mb intervals for which the rates  
are indicated as zero.  I would like to know if this is a true rate  
of zero i.e. there is no recombination in this interval or if this  
indicates no data.

Thanks for your help clarifying this!
- Erika

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E.M. Kvikstad
Academic Computing Fellow
IGDP Genetics
Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics
The Pennsylvania State University
208 Mueller Lab
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-2185
kvik at bx.psu.edu