## Description

This track depicts gaps in the assembly.

Gaps are represented as black boxes in this track. If the relative order and orientation of the contigs on either side of the gap is supported by read pair data, it is a bridged gap and a white line is drawn through the black box representing the gap.

This assembly contains the following two types of gaps:

- fragment - gaps between the Whole Genome Shotgun contigs of a supercontig/scaffold. (In this context, a contig is a set of overlapping sequence reads. A supercontig/scaffold is a set of contigs ordered and oriented during the Whole Genome Shotgun process using paired-end reads.) These are represented by varying numbers of Ns in the assembly. Fragment gap sizes are usually taken from read pair data.
- scaffold - gaps between supercontigs not linked by the fingerprint map. These are represented by 1,000 Ns in the assembly of the artifical chromosome chrUn (concatenation of unplaced supercontigs).

## Credits

The Feb. 2008 Caenorhabditis brenneri (aka: Caenorhabditis n. sp. 4. PB2801) assembly produced by Washington University School of Medicine GSC with the following data usage policy.

As described at WormBase: "This is a 20X inbred (one gravid female per generation) derivative of LKC28, which is conspecific with CB5161." Recently renamed to C. brenneri. Other conspecific strains: SB129, SB280. See also: Zootaxa 1456: 45-62 (25 Apr. 2007), Walter Sudhaus and Karin Kiontke.