This work was funded in part by NSF grant
#0213764 and
by the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems Grant no. 2001-52100-11292 from the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.

FPC takes as input a set of clones and their restriction fragments
(called Bands) and assembles the clones into contigs; for more information,
see summary.
FPC contributions are
by the GSC, BCGSC, Sanger Centre, Clemson University, and University
of Arizona.