BACS

/ bæks /

acronym

1. Bankers' Automated Clearing System; a method of making payments direct to a creditor's bank without using a cheque

Example Sentences

After pooling of individual BAC clones, isolation of pooled BAC DNA, digestion with HindIII/MseI, ligation of Illumina Hiseq adaptor sequences and sequencing from the HindIII side using Illumina HiSeq with 100-nt read length, we obtained 1,108,197 filtered WGP tags and 345,233 tagged BACs.

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However, when pressed with the prospect of increased hangovers, arrests, and hospital stays that would inevitably come with all those increased BACs, he settled on another option.

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Comparison of the new assembly to the previous BAC-based maize reference genome assembly revealed more than 99.9% sequence identity and a 52-fold increase in the mean contig length, with 84% of the BACs spanned by a single contig from the long reads assembly.

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Scaffolds were then ordered and oriented into pseudochromosomes using the order of BACs as a guide.

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Instead of resolving complex repeat structures on the whole-genome level, we reconstructed the sequences of 100–150 kb BACs.

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