What are the chromosomes colors in GRC?

[papori]

Hi all,
I am trying to understand what is the meaning of the different colors of the chromosomes as presented in the GRC homepage..
Here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/human/

More specifically:
What is the black/ white/ pink/ gray/ light blue?

Probably i missed this info somewhere..

Thanks,
Pap

[dpryan]

The white/black/gray parts denotes bands in a karyogram (just look at one on google image search, chromosomes look like that when stained). The pink denotes a centromere. Blue appears to be gaps.

[papori]

The white/black/gray parts denotes bands in a karyogram (just look at one on google image search, chromosomes look like that when stained). The pink denotes a centromere. Blue appears to be gaps.

Thanks!
What do you mean by "blue apears to be gaps"? unknown areas?

[dpryan]

Gaps in coverage. Heterochromatin regions are tough to sequence.

[papori]

Gaps in coverage. Heterochromatin regions are tough to sequence.

ahhh OK!
Thanks!