NAME - EEDB::Tools::OverlapCompare

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

This is a general purpose processing tool designed to do genome spatial comparisons. It is configured with a set of feature sources and parameters and call-back functions. It is then fed a stream of features sorted by chromsome location. given the overlaps it will then call the functions which the user can defined to "do things". It is based on a modified merge-sort-like comparison algorithm.

CONTACT

Jessica Severin <severin@gsc.riken.jp>

LICENSE

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