What does "super" in reference genome mean??

Question

[ongchip]

Hi. I opened the reference genome of Pinus taeda v2.01. https://treegenesdb.org/org/Pinus-taeda

There are 4545 of supers and 230624 of scaffolds in that file. I know the meaning of scaffold, but what does super mean?

Answer 1

[iraun]

Hi! From Precision nomenclature for the new genomics:

Super-scaffolds: Ordered scaffolds produced by methods such as optical mapping and chromosome conformation capture technologies .

[ongchip]

Thanks for your answer