The Human Genome Project and UCSC
Double Helix
The Assembly Problem
Deconstructing Mary
Mixed Up Pieces of Mary
Assembling Overlapping Pieces
So Far So Good
Sometimes Placement Uncertain
Some Pieces Don’t Fit
Ending Up With Two Contigs?
Repeats Have Confused Assembly
Coping with Repeats
Even a perfect assembly has no punctuation
PPT Slide
Promoter Tells Where to Begin
Comparing DNA from Related Species
Other Bioinformatic at UCSC
Email: kent@biology.ucsc.edu
Home Page: www.cse.ucsc.edu/~kent
Other information: Presentation for Scholars Day, 10 March 2001.