Description

Gaps are represented as black boxes in this track. If the relative order and orientation of the contigs on either side of the gap is supported by read pair data, it is a bridged gap and a white line is drawn through the black box representing the gap.

This assembly contains the following principal types of gaps:

• Short Arm - 100 bases of Ns marked at the beginning of each chromosome
• Fragment - gaps between the Whole Genome Shotgun contigs of a supercontig. These are represented by varying numbers of Ns in the assembly. In this context, a contig is a set of overlapping sequence reads and a supercontig is a set of contigs ordered and oriented during the Whole Genome Shotgun process using paired-end reads. Fragment gap sizes are usually taken from read pair data.
• Clone - gaps between supercontigs linked by the physical map. In general, these are represented by 1,000 Ns in the assembly.
• Other - sequences of Ns in the assembly that were not annotated in the AGP file as gap. Added by UCSC.