An example antibody graph with three reference segments, colored by red, blue, and green arcs. A single read is shown here with black arcs. The color hash is shown for the three arcs from the read that are shared with reference gene segments, and . Bulge/tip traversal and color assignment is shown below the graph, for example, to obtain the matching for the green reference, the green/black bulge is traversed, and marginals are aligned. Tips are also traversed, shown here with red and blue references. Matching/mismatching nucleotides are noted for each colored reference to the read at the bottom of the figure. Matches are noted with a • and mismatches with a −.