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What Does Agp Stand For?

The AGP format is defined here on the NCBI site. But I've searched high and low, and can't find out what the acronym stands for.

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AGP stands for 'A Golden Path', "A Golden Path is a description of the assembly of an object, e.g. a chromosome, by listing all its components (clones) in order whilst specifying exact coordinates" (from http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/explain_tpf_agp.shtml).

see also these links:

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Oh, how poetic! Thanks a lot for the answer.

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