What are rc units?

[TabeaK]

Hi all, can anyone educate to me what rc units are?

For WGS genome records, for example, on NCBI you often find something like xxx rc linear DNA.

How do I convert that to bases?

I have just unsuccessfully googled that...never came across this unit before...

Jenny

[kmcarr]

I'm not sure exactly what rc stands for, but it is telling you how many contigs make up the full WGS data set. There is no relationship between rc and base pairs.

Example for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC-503 cw92 mt+

LOCUS       ABCN01000000           11384 rc    DNA     linear   PLN 26-JUN-2008
DEFINITION  Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strain CC-503 cw92 mt+, whole genome
            shotgun sequencing project.
ACCESSION   ABCN00000000
VERSION     ABCN00000000.1  GI:154756679
DBLINK      Project: 12260
KEYWORDS    WGS.

There are 11,384 contigs (ABCN01000001 - ABCN01011384) which make up the WGS project.

[maubp]

WGS records use rc for record count. You can't convert it into bases. They might look like a normal GenBank file, but they are NOT sequence files. See:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/wgs/

[TabeaK]

Thank you all!