Table 2.

Bacterial Clone Libraries That Are Currently Available for Human Sequencing

LibraryTypeSource DNANumber of clonesAverage size (kb)Coverage (×)
RPCI-1, 3, 4, 5PACmale438,73711416
RPCI-6PACfemale 87,8971354
RPCI-11BACmale437,03417425.3
BAC library DBACmale280,00017016
LibraryVectorSiteURL
RPCI-1, 3, 4, 5pCYPAC2 MboI/BamHI http://bacpac.med.buffalo.edu
RPCI-6pPAC4 MboI/BamHI http://bacpac.med.buffalo.edu
RPCI-11pBACe3.6 EcoRI http://bacpac.med.buffalo.edu
BAC library D pBeloBAC11 HindIII orEcoRI http://www.tree.caltech.edu

[i] 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.