[Chicago] Closest Index

[Brian Ray]

Oren:

Why don't we carve out some time in our next meeting (Thurs) and talk about
possible approaches? Are you open to leading that discussion?


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Oren Livne <livne at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Dear Shelia
>
> These are great questions.
> A is a set of positions of genetic markers on a chromosome. It is read
> from an input data file and is sorted.
> As such, A has no duplicate elements.
> A's values have variable density along the chromosome. It is not easy to
> characterize. Can be locally dense.
> A is used once. However, I have 22 different (A,B) pairs for 22 autosomal
> chromosomes.
>
> Oren
>
>
> On 1/5/2013 9:21 AM, sheila miguez wrote:
>
>> I have naive questions.
>>
>> How did A get constructed? If an example of integers in A is
>> 1,1,2,3,3,3 is it a list of that, or a counter 2,1,3 or something
>> else? What is the distribution of A? When you do the work do you have
>> to construct A every time or will it live around for a while?
>>
>
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