Part I: BAC Construction and Characterization 1 From Selective Full-Length Genes Isolation By TAR Cloning In Yeast To Their Expression From HAC Vectors In Human CellsNatalay Kouprina, Nicholas C.O. Lee, Artem V. Kononenko, Alexander Samoshkin, and Vladimir Larionov2 Recombineering Linear BACsQingwen Chen and Kumaran Narayanan 3 BAC Sequencing Using Pooled Methods Chris A. Saski, F. Alex Feltus, Laxmi Parida, and Niina Haiminen Part II: Modification Of BACs 4 Making BAC Transgene Constructs With Lambda-Red Recombineering System For Transgenic Animals Or Cell LinesScott Holmes, Suzanne Lyman, Jen-Kang Hsu, and Jrgang Cheng 5 Directing Enhancer-Traps And Itol2 End Sequences To Deleted BAC Ends With Loxp- and Lox511-Tn10 Transposons Pradeep K. Chatterjee 6 Recombining Overlapping BACs Into Single Large BACs George Kotzamanis and Athanassios Kotsinas Part III: Gene Expression Using BACs as Vectors 7 Generation Of Knockout Alleles by RFLP Based BAC Targeting Of Polymorphic Embryonic Stem CellsTahsin Stefan Barakat and Joost Gribnau 8 Herpesvirus Mutagenesis Facilitated By Infectious Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (Ibacs)Karl E. Robinson and Timothy J. Mahony 9 Conversion Of BAC Clones Into Binary BAC (BIBAC) Vectors and Their Delivery Into Basidiomycete Fungal Cells Using Agrobacterium tumefaciensShawkat Ali and Guus Bakkeren 10 Infectious Delivery of Alphaherpesvirus Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes Kurt Tobler and Cornel Fraefel Part IV: Applications Of BACs In Model Organisms, Medical Genetics, and Drug Discovery 11 A Recombineering-Based Gene Tagging System For ArabidopsisJose M. Alonso and Anna N. Stepanova 12 BAC Transgenic Zebrafish for Transcriptional Promoter and Enhancer Studies Petra Kraus, Cecilia L Winata, and Thomas Lufkin 13 Bacs-On-BeadsTM (BobsTM) Assay for the Genetic Evaluation of Prenatal Samples And Products of ConceptionFrancesca Romana Grati, François Vialard,and Susan Gross 14 New BAC Probe Set To Narrow Down Chromosomal Breakpoints In Small and Large Derivative Chromosomes, Especially Suited for Mosaic ConditionsAhmed B. Hamid, Xiaobo Fan, Nadezda Kosyakova, Gopakumar Radhakrishnan, Thomas Liehr, and Tatyana Karamysheva 15 BAC-Probes Applied For Characterization Of Fragile Sites (FS)Kristin Mrasek, Kathleen Wilhelm, Luciana G. Quintana, Luise Theuss, Thomas Liehr, Andreja Leskovac, Jelena Filipovic, Gordana Joksic, Ivana Joksic, and Anja Weise 16 Application Of BAC-Probes To Visualize Copy Number Variants (CNVs)Anja Weise, Moneeb A.K. Othman, Samarth Bhatt, Sharon Löhmer, and Thomas Liehr 17 Site-Specific Integration Of Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes Into Human Cells Bradley Mccoll, Sara Howden, and Jim Vadolas 18 Generation Of BAC Reporter Cell Lines For Drug DiscoveryBetty R. Kao, Bradley Mccoll, and Jim Vadolas... Mehr