Why are there chr 11 and chr 20 alignment files, and not for other chromosomes?

The chr 11 and chr 20 alignment files are put in place to give the 1000 Genomes analysis group a small section of the genome to run test analyses on before committing to a particular strategy to run across the whole genome. Everything in the chr 11 and chr 20 files is also represented in the mapped bam file. To get a complete view of what data we aligned you only need to download the mapped and unmapped bams, the chr 11 and chr 20 bams are there as a convenience to the analysis group.

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