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Table 1 Summary of the frequency line plot and RP abilities to distinguish regions based on either peak event intensity or area under the event intensity curve

From: The rainfall plot: its motivation, characteristics and pitfalls

 

Frequency line plot

Rainfall plot

Intensity (density of mutations in hotspot regions)

No

Directly

Integral (number of mutations in hotspot regions)

Directly

To some degree through point counting

Extent (length of hotspot regions)

No

To some degree by deriving from integral and intensity

  1. Intensity here refers to the average distance between events within a genomic region (density of mutations within a hotspot region). Integral refers to the total number of events within a genomic region (number of mutations within a hotspot region). Extent refers to the length of the genomic region of heightened event frequency (length of hotspot region)