Release of FPC has been discontinue as it is obsolete. Development started at the Sanger Center, UK for the human genome project. This continued work was funded in part by NSF grant #0213764 and by the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems Grant no. 2001-52100-11292 from the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service. FPC takes as input a set of clones and their restriction fragments and assembles the clones into contigs. It was used in large scale genome sequencing projects to find overlapping clones to sequence.

References

Nelson, W. and C. Soderlund (2009). Integrating Sequence with FPC Fingerprinted Maps. Nucleic Acids Research 1-11 doi:10.1093/nar/gkp034

Nelson, W., J. Dvorak, M. Luo, J. Messing, R. Wing, and C. Soderlund (2006). Efficacy of clone fingerprinting methodologies. Genomics 89:160-165.

Nelson, W, A Bharti, E Butler, F Wei, G Fuks, H Kim, R Wing, J Messing, and C Soderlund (2005). Whole-Genome Validation of High-Information-Content Fingerprinting. Plant Physiology 139:27-38.

Engler, F., J. Hatfield, W. Nelson, and C. Soderlund (2003). Locating sequence on FPC maps and selecting a minimal tiling path. Genome Research 13:2152:2163.

Soderlund, C., S. Humphrey, A. Dunhum, and L. French (2000). Contigs built with fingerprints, markers and FPC V4.7. Genome Research 10:1772-1787.

Soderlund, C., I. Longden and R. Mott (1997) FPC: a system for building contigs from restriction fingerprinted clones. CABIOS, 13: 523-535.

Book chapters

Nelson, W. and C. Soderlund (2005). Software for restriction fragment physical maps. K. Meksem, G. Kahl (ed) The Handbook of Genome Mapping: Genetic and Physical Mapping, Wiley-VCH. pp. 285-306.

Engler, F. and C. Soderlund (2002). Software for Physical Maps. In Ian Dunham (ed) Genomic Mapping and Sequencing, Horizon Press, Genome Technology series. Norfolk, UK, pp. 201-236.

Soderlund, C., S. Gregory and I. Dunham (1998). Sequence ready clones. In Bishop, M.J. (ed) Guide to Human Genome Computing, Academic Press.

Gregory, S., C. Soderlund and A. Coulson (1996) Contig assembly by fingerprinting. In P. H. Dear (ed) Genome Mapping: a Practical Approach.

Other

van Oeveren J, de Ruiter M, Jesse T, van der Poel H, Tang J, Yalcin F, Janssen A, Volpin H, Stormo KE, Bogden R, van Eijk MJ, Prins M (2011). Sequence-based physical mapping of complex genomes by whole genome profiling. Genome Res., epub Feb. 1, 2011.

Ness, S.R., Terpstra, W., Krzywinski, M., Marra M., Jones, A., and Ness, S.J.M. (2002). Assembly of fingerprint contigs: parallelized FPC. BioInformatics 18:484-485.

The International Human Genome Mapping Consortium (2001) A physical map of the human genome, Nature 409:934-941