What "chrUn" stand for in UCSC genome browser web server?
In UCSC genome browser web server there are some chromosome which start with "chrUn", for example chrUn_KI270438v1. What are these chromosome exactly? It means Unknown chromosome? If yes, why unknown?
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Quoting directly from the UCSC website:
"ChrUn contains clone contigs that cannot be confidently placed on a specific chromosome. For the chrN_random and chrUn_random files, we essentially just concatenate together all the contigs into short pseudo-chromosomes. The coordinates of these are fairly arbitrary, although the relative positions of the coordinates are good within a contig."
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