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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 5. Schematic of the BEDTools map tool’s functionality.

Figure 5

The map tool summarizes the overlaps observed between two interval files, A and B. The result is a summary of all intervals in B that overlapped each interval in A. The summary is computed based on operations such as mean or max, which compute the average or maximum value for a given column from all of the intersecting B intervals.