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Table 1 BAC-CGC construction results

From: Using comparative genomics to reorder the human genome sequence into a virtual sheep genome

Comparison genome

feature

Ovine BACs mapped tail-to-tail

Number of contigs

Mean span of contigs (Mb)

Total span of contigs (Gb)

Percentage of comparison genomea

Cow

BAC-CGCs

32,602

4,026

0.40

1.59

60.8%

Dog

BAC-CGCs

58,757

2,104

0.98

2.05

86.8%

Human

BAC-CGCs

52,338

2,447

0.96

2.35

82.7%

Human

MegaBAC-CGCs

84,624

1,257

2.04

2.57

90.5%

Human

Consolidated MegaBAC-CGCs

84,624

1,172

2.21

2.59

91.2%

  1. aGolden path length of genome assemblies cow 2.62 Gb, dog 2.36 Gb (no Y chromosome in the golden path), and human 2.84 Gb (excludes the sequenced region of the Y chromosome). BAC, bacterial artificial chromosome; CGC, comparative genome contig; Gb, gigabases; Mb, megabases;