Toward a Complete Human Genome Sequence

Table 2.

Bacterial Clone Libraries That Are Currently Available for Human Sequencing

Library Type Source DNA Number of clones Average size (kb) Coverage (×)
RPCI-1, 3, 4, 5 PAC male 438,737 114 16
RPCI-6 PAC female  87,897 135 4
RPCI-11 BAC male 437,034 174 25.3
BAC library D BAC male 280,000 170 16
Library Vector Site URL
RPCI-1, 3, 4, 5 pCYPAC2 MboI/BamHI http://bacpac.med.buffalo.edu
RPCI-6 pPAC4 MboI/BamHI http://bacpac.med.buffalo.edu
RPCI-11 pBACe3.6 EcoRI http://bacpac.med.buffalo.edu
BAC library D pBeloBAC11 HindIII orEcoRI http://www.tree.caltech.edu
  • RPCI libraries are from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute Group of Pieter de Jong. BAC library D is from the Caltech group of Ung-Jin Kim, Hiroaki Shizuya, and Melvin Simon.

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