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Table 1 Binning: illustration of how a DAS source may implement binning.

From: Integrating biological data – the Distributed Annotation System

Positions

11

12

13

14

15

 

16

17

18

19

20

 

21

22

23

24

25

Available bins

Bin 1

 

Bin 2

 

Bin 3

Annotation score

8

3

9

1

4

 

7

6

7

2

0

 

2

4

4

3

5

Features returned

  

9

   

7

         

5

  1. In this contrived example a client requests feature annotations for a segment of sequence between bases 11 and 25, with a maxbins parameter of 3. The DAS source has an annotation for every base but, after sorting each into its appropriate bin, returns only those features with the highest scores.
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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