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    Methods Mol Biol. 2006;338:1-7.

    Use of genome browsers to locate your favorite genes.

    Bina M.

    Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

    The completion of whole-genome sequencing projects offers the opportunity of creating high-resolution maps of specific segments in a known genomic DNA sequence. For this purpose, several genome browsers have been created. They include the map-view (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/), the Ensembl genome browser (http://www.ensembl.org/), and the genome browser at UCSC (http://genome.ucsc.edu/). For the beginners in the field, through a specific example, this chapter provides a step-by-step procedure for creating a map using the genome browser at UCSC. The example describes mapping, in the human genome, the promoter region of the NF-IL6 gene. The procedure is applicable to creating maps of the desired regions in genomes of other species available at the genome browser at UCSC.

    PMID: 16888346 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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