The chromosome band track represents the approximate location of bands seen on Giemsa-stained chromosomes at an 800 band resolution.
A full description of the method by which the chromosome band locations are estimated can be found in Furey, T.S., and Haussler, D.,Integration of the Cytogenetic Map with the Draft Human Genome Sequence, Hum. Mol. Gen., 12(9):1037-1044 (2003).
Barbara Trask, Vivian Cheung, Norma Nowak and others in the BAC Resource Consortium used fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) to determine a cytogenetic location for large genomic clones on the chromosomes. The results from these experiments are the primary source of information used in estimating the chromosome band locations. For more information about the BAC Resource Consortium, see "Integration of cytogenetic landmarks into the draft sequence of the human genome", Nature, 409:953-958, Feb. 2001 and the accompanying web site Human BAC Resource.
BAC clone placements in the human sequence are determined at UCSC using a combination of full BAC clone sequence, BAC end sequence, and STS marker information.
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