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. 2016 Dec 21;33(8):1261–1270. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw811

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

An overview of possible outcomes from an overlap detection algorithm. Each level has a computational cost associated with it, with the general trend being A < B<C. The common seeds-based comparison methods are not the only way to obtain these overlaps, but it is the most popular method used