TY - JOUR A1 - Marra, Marco A. A1 - Kucaba, Tamara A. A1 - Dietrich, Nicole L. A1 - Green, Eric D. A1 - Brownstein, Buddy A1 - Wilson, Richard K. A1 - McDonald, Ken M. A1 - Hillier, LaDeana W. A1 - McPherson, John D. A1 - Waterston, Robert H. T1 - High Throughput Fingerprint Analysis of Large-Insert Clones Y1 - 1997/11/01 JF - Genome Research JO - Genome Research SP - 1072 EP - 1084 DO - 10.1101/gr.7.11.1072 VL - 7 IS - 11 UR - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/7/11/1072.abstract N2 - As part of the Human Genome Project, the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center has commenced systematic sequencing of human chromsome 7. To organize and supply the effort, we have undertaken the construction of sequence-ready physical maps for defined chromosomal intervals. Map construction is a serial process composed of three main activities. First, candidate STS-positive large-insert PAC and BAC clones are identified. Next, these candidate clones are subjected to fingerprint analysis. Finally, the fingerprint data are used to assemble sequence-ready maps. The fingerprinting method we have devised is key to the success of the overall approach. We present here the details of the method and show that the fingerprints are of sufficient quality to permit the construction of megabase-size contigs in defined regions of the human genome. We anticipate that the high throughput and precision characteristic of our fingerprinting method will make it of general utility. ER -