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The electronic form of this document may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop IV, 1994.

Abstracts scanned from text submitted for November 1994 DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop. Inaccuracies have not been corrected.

SIGMA: System for Integrated Genome Map Assembly

Michael J. Cinkosky, Shahar Tsadeek, and James W. Fickett
National Center for Genome Resources
1800 Old Pecos Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 982-7840

SIGMA (System for Integrated Genome Map Assembly) is an interactive, graphical genome map editor. SIGMA enables maps to be built from many different types of mapping data including: YAC/STS content, genetic linkage, breakpoint, in situ hybridization, radiation hybrid, etc. All of the data are integrated into a single map and SIGMA is able to identify discrepancies between the map and the data on which it is based.

SIGMA has the following major features:

• Graphical, mouse-based genome map editing;
• Supports creation of multiple, user-defined "views" on a single map;
• Enables integration of data at all appropriate levels of resolution, from banded ideograms to restriction fragments;
• Allows users to add new kinds of cloning vectors, chromosome landmarks, or other map objects, without changing the software;
• Split screen allows simultaneous viewing of maps at multiple levels of magnification;
• Able to print maps of any size on any PostScript(tm) printer;
• Supports integration of data from many different types of physical and linkage experiments;
• Keeps the underlying data as part of the map, allowing users to easily access the data supporting any given map;
• Automatically evaluates the map against the underlying data, pointing out places where the two disagree;
• Available for multiple platforms, including:
  

  Sun SparcStation, under Sun/OS 4.X
  

  Apple Macintosh
  

  DEC Alpha, underOSF-1
  

SIGMA is currently being used to assemble maps of a number of human chromosomes, including 5, 9, 16, X and Y.

SIGMA is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.ncgr.org. Documentation on the software, as well as a number of sample maps, can be accessed through the World Wide Web (http://www.ncgr.org/sigma).