<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>The sequencing of the black 6 mouse (strain C57Bl/6) has reached an important
juncture. The BAC fingerprint map is almost complete, the BACs have been endsequenced
and a seven-fold coverage whole-genome shotgun has been assembled. Now
the BAC-by-BAC sequencing phase is under way and in-depth comparative analysis
can be carried out on regions that have been the subject of targeted sequencing.
This paper reviews the progress so far and looks forward to the promises of finished
sequence.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2002 Aug; 3(4):319-324