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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Bioinformatics. 2014 Sep 8;47:11.12.1–11.12.34. doi: 10.1002/0471250953.bi1112s47

Figure 1. Examples of genome arithmetic operations.

Figure 1

Each tool in the BEDTools suite performs a relatively simple operation on one, a pair, or multiple genome interval datasets. The examples presented here reflect genome arithmetic operations on two genome interval files (green and blue). For example, if blue intervals represent gene annotations and green intervals represent DNA sequence alignments, then the result of the intersect tool (gray interval) represents the genomic interval that is shared between a single gene annotation and sequence alignment.