Construction of the Physical Map of C. briggsae
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The physical map of C.briggsae was constructed by generating
fingerprints from two libraries: a 6.5-fold coverage fosmid library
(M. A. Marra, unpublished data) and a 10-fold coverage BAC library
(M. A. Marra and P. deJong, unpublished data).  The map consists of
17,885 BAC clones and 16,914 fosmid clones with average insert sizes of
~80kb and ~40kb.  These clones were fingerprinted, analyzed with Image
(http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Image) and assembled in an FPC database
(http://www.agcol.arizona.edu/software/fpc/). The assembled contigs were
manually edited to achieve proper order based upon fingerprint banding
patterns and were then merged with one another to generate the largest
contigs possible.  The physical map is currently in 197 contigs. 

This map was built and edited with FPC Version 5.0

cbMap.tar.gz 
    * Bands
	-The original mobility values.
    * Sizes
	-The base pair conversion of each band based on a standard.
    * Gel
	-The actual gel images processed by Image.
    * cbMap.fpc
    * cbMap.cor
    * cbMap.fpp

cbMap.fpc.gz 	Main Fpc text file that contains clone, contig, marker,
                and Fpc map data
cbMap.cor.gz 	Binary file used by Fpc to map clones to bands for
                sulston score calculations
cbMap.fpp.gz 	Fpc interface preferences file.

The last three FPC files are part of the larger tarball, but are also made
available as individual compressed files for users not interested in the raw data,
i.e., Gels, Bands, Sizes.

The name conversions are as follows:
FPC     =>      NCBI
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B       =>      UNK-BAC Library      
G       =>      UNK-Fosmid Library