Table 1

BAC-CGC construction results

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%

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;

Dalrymple et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R152   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-7-r152