Review Article

Soybean Genomics: Developments through the Use of Cultivar “Forrest”

Table 5

Progress in the soybean physical map builds 2 to 5.

Automated Build 2 Sept. 2001Manual Build 3 Oct 2002Manual Build 4 Oct 2003 TotalJudged by BACs/unique band to be (pploid) [unique]Manual Build 5 Jan 2008

BAC clones in FPC database81,02483,02678,00178,001
BACs used in contig assembly75,56878,00172,94272,837
Number of singletons5,884495427,181217,942
Marker anchored singletons0012063
Clone in contigs (fold genome)69,68473,06945,13558,765
Fold genome in contigs8.79.15.662
Number of contigs5,4882,9072,854(646)[2208]521
Anchoring Markers0385404(280)[124]1,523
Anchored Contigs0781742(181)[223]455
Contlgs contain: >25 clone 220921477(268)[209] 335
10–25 clones3,0389201,458(433)[1025]110
3–9 clones1,845850820(0)[820]43
2 clones38521699(0)[99]33
Unique bands in the contigs396,843345,457#258,240(64,560)257,356
Length of the contigs (Mb)1,667*1,451*1.037(0.258) [0.769]1.034

*Based on 4.00 kbp per unique hand. # Based on 4.05 kbp per unique band, for 2,854 contigs containing 68 unique bands in 15 clones, 264 duplicated region contigs containing 68 unique bands in 30 clones I5,840 unique bands and 406 highly repeated region contigs containing 68 unique bands is 60 clones, 48,720 unique bands.