Identifying elemental genomic track types and representing them uniformly

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Relation between analyses and track types

	Points	Segments	Function	Valued Points	Valued Segments
Points	Different frequencies?	Located inside?	Higher values at locations?		Located in highly valued segments?
	Segments	Overlap?	Higher values inside?
		Function	Correlated?
			Valued Points	Nearby values similar?	Categories differentially located in targets?
				Valued Segments

Examples of analyses for different combinations of track types (using only five of the fifteen defined track types). Note that many of these analyses are valid for several (though not all) combinations, and are assigned to what we consider the most typical combination for the analysis. All these analyses are carefully described significance tests [10], available online at the Genomic HyperBrowser [28]

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