Figure 1

Overlap and neighbor queries. A) For two genomic regions located on the same chromosome, the possible relations (>, =, <) between start and end positions of the elements are listed. Note that not all configurations are realistic, e.g. start x > end x is forbidden by definition. B) Comprehensive overview of all overlap types between queries (red bars) and annotations (blue bars) are shown, including overlaps of genomic elements of size zero (cases 8, 13, 14, 15, 16). C) Neighbor annotations are defined as the closest annotation to the query that is not overlapping the query in the sense defined by panel B. Left neighbors are located upstream and right neighbors are located downstream of the query element. For left neighbors, the distance is measured between query start and annotation end. For right neighbors, the distance is measured between query end and annotation start.