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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Biosci. 2012 May 19;5(1):138–155. doi: 10.1007/s12561-012-9064-7

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Read mapping for RNA-seq. Exon body reads can be mapped to the reference genome directly. Splice junction reads cannot be mapped to the reference genome without allowing large gaps. They are usually split into multiple segments. Segments that can be mapped to the reference genome help to locate splice junction sites