This track shows syntenous (corresponding) regions between $Organism and human chromosomes. The July 2003 (hg16) assembly of the human genome was used to produce this annotation.
We passed a 100k non-overlapping window over the genome and - using the blastz best in human genome alignments - looked for high-scoring regions with at least 40% of the bases aligning with the same region in human. 100k segments were joined together if they agreed in direction and were within 500kb of each other in the $Organism genome and within 4mb of each other in the human. Gaps were joined between syntenic anchors if the bases between two flanking regions agreed with synteny (direction and human location). Finally, we extended the syntenic block to include those areas.
Contact Robert Baertsch at UCSC for more information about this track.