[Genome] 500 kb BACs?

[Hiram Clawson]

Good Morning Katie:

We have an error in this BAC track.  Some of them as you have
discovered cover too much distance.  We hope to fix this in the
near future.

--Hiram

Katie Rudd wrote:
> In the March 2006 assembly, there are some BACs that appear to be  
> much larger than expected.  For example, AC025983.3 (RP11-687M15)  
> spans greater than 500 kb on the chromosome 19 browser view, but  
> according to NCBI it is 173 kb in 35 unordered pieces.  Several other  
> BACs in the same region also span regions much larger than the  
> average BAC insert size.  There are no annotated segmental  
> duplications in this region, so I can't imagine why these BACs would  
> be assembled to cover such a large space.  Any reason for this?
> 
> Katie Rudd, Ph.D.
> postdoc, Trask Lab
> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
> 1100 Fairview Ave. North
> C3-111
> Seattle, WA 98109
> 
> 206-667-1471
> 
> mrudd at fhcrc.org