## Description

This track shows syntenous (corresponding) regions between $organism and $o_organism chromosomes. The $o_date ($o_db) assembly of the $o_organism genome was used to produce this annotation.

## Methods

We passed a 100k non-overlapping window over the genome and - using the blastz best in human genome alignments - looked for high-scoring regions with at least 40% of the bases aligning with the same region in human. 100k segments were joined together if they agreed in direction and were within 500 kb of each other in the $Organism genome and within 4 Mb of each other in the $o_organism. Gaps were joined between syntenic anchors if the bases between two flanking regions agreed with synteny (direction and $o_organism location). Finally, we extended the syntenic block to include those areas.

## Credits

Contact Robert Baertsch at UCSC for more information about this track. Thanks to the Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium for providing the rat sequence data. For more information, see the Baylor College Human Genome Sequencing Center Rat Genome Project page.