Content of Extrachromosomal Elements in DNA Libraries

The following statistics on contaminations of pUC18 libraries with extrachromosomal elements are based on BLASTs done with reading sequences that were masked for low-complex repeats.


      libs     mtDNA  rDNA
JAX4  abd      1.5%   6.8%
JC1   abc      0.3%   1.1%
JC2   abcdef   7.7%   2.4%
JC3   a        0.8%   1.3%