Worm Breeder's Gazette 12(2): 23 (January 1, 1992)
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We are continuing to map clones by fingerprinting, where appropriate. Polytene YAC filters are an additional mapping resource, not a replacement. Thus any clones that require mapping should be sent to Cambridge initially (preferably DNA and clone). There is greater than a 90% probability that a clone will be mapped by fingerprinting, provided that it has sufficient HindIII sites (generally more than 2 or 3) to generate an adequate fingerprint (i.e. essentially all cosmids and lambdas). Clones with insufficient HindIII sites for unequivocal mapping solely by fingerprinting ( many plasmids for example) may be mapped to the cosmid level by a combination of fingerprinting and polytene YAC probing (when the fingerprint comparison is to a smaller subset of cosmids as defined by the probing).