Fig. 5

The extent of possible event congestion on a human genome RP with dimensions of 1000x351 pixels. The number of distinct represented inter-event distances and the number of possibly overlapping events are displayed for selected RP y-coordinates. RP pixels with low y-coordinates represent few or even no inter-event distances (as seen for y-coordinates 0, 25, 50). At the same time, the distances represented by low y-coordinates are short and allow therefore for a high number of events to share the same x-coordinate. On the other hand, individual pixels with high y-coordinates can represent groups of many distinct inter-event distances (i.e., hundreds, thousands or millions of distances at a time). At the same time, higher y-coordinates represent longer distances, which increasingly limits the number of events that could possibly share the same x-coordinate (with only a single event fitting onto any x-coordinate at the highest y-values). Changing the plot dimensions will influence which distances and which genomic locations will be distinguishable from each other