Hi Ilana, The size field in the chromInfo table describes the number of bases on only one strand of the DNA. So if you need to count the number of bases in both strands, you would indeed multiply by 2.
-- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bionformatics Group On 10/12/10 06:17, Ilana Livyatan wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering if the 'size' field of the chromInfo table describes the size of the chromosome in bases or base pairs (single or double stranded). Meaning to get the number of bases in the DNA do I need to multiply > by 2 or not. Given the numbers it seems that it's in bases but I wanted to > make > sure. > > Thanks, > Ilana Livyatan > Dr. Eran Meshorer's Lab > Department of Genetics > Room 2-544, Givat Ram > The Hebrew University of Jerusalem > Jerusalem, 91904 ISRAEL > Tel: 972-2-6585143 Fax: 972-2-6586975 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
