This track shows the gaps in the 13 Aug 2013 Elaeis guineensis/GCF_000442705.1_EG5 genome assembly.
Genome assembly procedures are covered in the NCBI
assembly documentation.
NCBI also provides
specific information about this assembly.
The definition of the gaps in this assembly is from the AGP file:
GCF_000442705.1_EG5.agp.gz
The NCBI document
AGP Specification describes the format of the AGP file.
Gaps are represented as black boxes in this track. If the relative order and orientation of the contigs on either side of the gap is supported by read pair data, it is a bridged gap and a white line is drawn through the black box representing the gap.
This assembly has 162,119 gaps, with the following principal types of gaps: