What Does Agp Stand For?

Question

[Chris Maloney]

The AGP format is defined here on the NCBI site. But I've searched high and low, and can't find out what the acronym stands for.

Answer 1

[lexnederbragt]

AGP stands for 'A Golden Path', "A Golden Path is a description of the assembly of an object, e.g. a chromosome, by listing all its components (clones) in order whilst specifying exact coordinates" (from http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/explain_tpf_agp.shtml).

see also these links:

• http://seqanswers.com/wiki/AGP
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/agp/AGP_Specification.shtml
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Path_genome_assembly#Genome_assembly

[Chris Maloney]

Oh, how poetic! Thanks a lot for the answer.