Creation of a minimal tiling path of genomic clones for Drosophila: provision of a common resource

On the basis of shotgun subclone libraries used in the sequencing of the Drosophila melanogaster genome, a minimal tiling path of subclones across much of the genome was determined. About 320,000 shotgun clones for chromosomes X(12–20), 2R, 2L, 3R, and 4 were available from the Berkeley Drosophila G...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Volker Hollich, Eric Johnson, Eileen E. Furlong, Boris Beckmann, Joseph Carlson, Susan E. Celniker, Jörg D. Hoheisel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2004-08-01
Series:BioTechniques
Online Access:https://www.future-science.com/doi/10.2144/04372MT01
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:On the basis of shotgun subclone libraries used in the sequencing of the Drosophila melanogaster genome, a minimal tiling path of subclones across much of the genome was determined. About 320,000 shotgun clones for chromosomes X(12–20), 2R, 2L, 3R, and 4 were available from the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project. The clone inserts have an average length of 3.4 kb and are amenable to standard PCR amplification. The resulting tiling path covers 86.2% of chromosome X(12–20), 86.2% of chromosomal arm 2R, 79.0% of 2L, 89.6% of 3R, and 80.5% of chromosome 4. In total, the 25,135 clones represent 76.7 Mb—equivalent to about 67% of the genome —and would be suitable for producing a microarray on a single slide.
ISSN:0736-6205
1940-9818